Media Sync
Simple plugin to scan "uploads" directory and bring those files into Media Library.
4.7(82 reviews)
·40K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Media Sync is a WordPress ftp plugin with 40K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 82 reviews. It has been downloaded 532K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.3+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Downloads are down 8% this week. Support resolution rate: 50%. Top alternative: File Manager.
4.7/582 reviews
40K+active installs
50%resolved
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
This plugin allows you to examine all files within the uploads directory to determine which ones are present in the Media Library and which ones are just sitting there unused. You can then choose the files you want to import into the database, thereby including them in the Media Library.
Moreover, you can utilize FTP to upload files directly to the uploads directory and subsequently add these files to the Media Library avoiding any file size limitations.
Disclaimers
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“1 file first”
Please try to import only one file first – to see if it works as you expected. -
“All at once”
This plugin is designed for scanning, selecting, and importing all files at once. However, based on your server’s configuration, memory, and timeout challenges may arise with exten…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great Timesaver!
by gopar3·2 months ago
I backed up a site then brought the staging site live, only to find out they’d ‘forgotten’ several important documents that had been on the old site but not the new one. I was able to restore the files, but they didn’t show up in my Media Library. This worked great and saved me a TON of time and headache. Thank you so much.
So useful!
by Cyrille Sanson·3 months ago
The ideal tool for adding media files via FTP to the media library.
Thanks a lot to the developer!
Completly hang the admin
by remedia222·3 months ago·1 reply
The page simply hangs the server, Javascript crash, when it finally works counts are completly off. I’m not trusting this quality of code with my database.
Exactly what it promised
by Fox Lee·8 months ago
I inherited a site with a badly broken media library, thanks to half-successful imports from multiple other sites and WIP versions. Media Sync was the perfect thing for getting everything recognised, super quick and super easy. I love it when a tool just does exactly what it’s meant to!
worked well for cleaning up media
by MeowOrNever·1 year ago
I thought I would complement this plug-in for helping me track down the mess left by the wordpress auto-scaler. The plugin listed orphan images so I could deal with them on the side. Most where extra copies from that darn WordPress auto-scaling and file renames gone wonky. Enable Media Replace and Phoenix File Rename were essential tools for implementing clean-up sympathetic to the WordPress database.
The only thing I didn’t like about Media Sync is that I couldn’t find a way to filter to only files that need attention. Kind of tedious to scroll through a few thousand entries to find the few bad apples.
Download Trends
Today: 205Yesterday: 231This week: 2KPeriod total: 133K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.4
93.2%
Other
6.8%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.4.9
- Fix regex to avoid PHP warnings.
- Better error handling for expected memory or timeout issues when scanning for more files than your server is able to handle.
- Tested for WordPress 6.9.
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