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Something wrecked a non-profit WordPress site I'm responsible for (I'm not a WP expert, just the most technical of all our volunteers). I was able to restore most of it from a backup, but the database seems to have forgotten most of the links to the media in the wp-content/uploads. All the media is still in the directories, but the database doesn't know it is there.

Obviously I could manually re-import all the hundreds of photos, but before I resort to that, I wanted to see if there is a technique or a plugin that would add everything already neatly sorted and stored in /uploads to the media database. Most of the plugins I've found are all about deleting orphans, but I need to add them to the db.

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    Re-importing them wouldn't be that different from what you're asking, either way posts of type attachment would need to be created and filled
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Jun 12, 2019 at 16:59

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This is random, but a friend of mine got himself into the same situation a two weeks back and found this plugin to be helpful.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-sync/

But as Tom mentioned above in his comment, you'll run into attachment post type issues.

Hope this helps you get half way there!!

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  • That was exactly what I needed - it got me 100% of the way there! Many thanks!
    – Fred Hamilton
    Jun 13, 2019 at 13:01
  • Another, more complex option seems to be the Bulk Media Register plugin.
    – Melebius
    May 27, 2021 at 12:37

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