TL;DR: my client needs to upload a lot of photos and videos often, but it’s gonna take a long time and I can’t ask him to sit and wait for it. Looking for how to upload faster or use some platform that stores the media.
I’m building a website in which I need to upload many photos (about 200) pretty often.
I’ve already got the part that presents the photos, I’ve got a folders plugin so it should be ok to manage the photos, but the thing is that it takes forever to upload media to WordPress(I’m sure you’re familiar with this problem).
It doesn’t bother me when building the website with constant photos, but it can take like 10 seconds per photo and that means that every time my client uploads around 200, he’ll need to wait half an hour!
Is there a way to shorten the time it takes, or even doing it all over with another platform that stores the media outside of the site?
Thanks in advance!
There used to be a plugin where you could SFTP images to the site directly to the server, then using the plugin would have to option to Add From Server. Because many SFTP apps can upload multiple files concurrently it can be faster, but thumbnails aren’t generated as normal. I used to use it for very large video files which would timeout duing the upload in WP.
I’ve built a solution for a customer before where you basically upload all pictures to something like Amazon S3.
Then using the WP API and the images url we would upload all images.
Works fine up until now.
First world problems eh! When a client can’t be bothered to add their own content because it takes some time/minimal effort.
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