The long-awaited migration release – this version adds some new tools at Tools:Photopress:Maintain that can be used to pull your Photopress images into the Media Library and then replace your Photopress tags with links to those files in the Media Library.
First, you can now migrate Photopress images into the Media Library. Moving images into the Media Library involves resizing images and can be quite a workout for your server – so it’s done in batches based on a new setting at Settings:Photopress that you should change depending on your server resources. Check to be sure your Media Library is working properly – creating thumbnails and whatnot – before trying to import photos. Image title, description, and category are all imported – but maybe aren’t put in the best spots, so let me know if you have ideas about where they should go. The “attached to” field should get filled correctly, but I’ve seen some funky behavior there that I’ll need to investigate.
If you’ve been using tags to insert images into posts you have two migration options for those. For images you’ve imported into the Media Library, you can replace tags with linked Media Library images. Alternatively, there’s a tool to replace tags with links straight to your Photopress images, useful if you don’t want to do the Media Library import.
So far I’ve tested out the migrate functions on my personal blog, where I had about 400 images that I migrated to the Media Library in batches of 50. Tag replacement worked fine.
The next big release of Photopress will not include the popup uploader/browser. The media handling parts of WordPress work great now – there’s just no need for the Photopress popup tool anymore. So, the next major version of Photopress will only include the album and random image stuff – and both will only work with images in the Media Library.
Get Photopress 1.8: photopress_1.8.zip
