I installed few weeks ago WPML Media on my client website and run it with the default settings.
That created a duplicate for each language of the 1364 photos of the website. This has created lots of issues with photos not displaying on pages. I'd like to reverse the process and delete all duplicate photos of the media library keeping only English but I need to do that in one-go not by selecting for each page of 20 photos and use the delete permanently function.
How can I do that? maybe from somewhere on the server? I'm not a web designer, just an SEO consultant and marketing manager for these people.
Thanks by advance for your help,
Olivier
PS- here is a picture of the status of the library hidden link
Feel free to open an additional ticket for the original problem with the photos (if you not done already).
Let talk to our developers about this.
"Media duplication" means basically that extra database records were added in tables "wp_posts" and "wp_postmeta".
If these records are removed the "duplication" is gone.
As I said i'm not a web designer, I found the "wp-posts" and "wp-postmeta" in the database but is there a way to easily identify these records for one language and remove them? because the amount of records is huge and I want to make sure I only remove the right ones, not the english ones which need to remain.
I removed the old media plugin, uploaded and activated the DEV version but no changes. The issue remains. See for example top 6 photos on that page don' t display but they are in the page when you edit it. hidden link
I have enabled private details box, which will ask you for ftp and wordpress admin details.
Can you please fill in the details, which will help me to further investigate on your issue(s).
Apparently there are some issues at Hostgator but if you use as Host this IP : 192.185.4.100 (password: support101)
you should be able to access it. I just tested it and it works for me.
I don't know what's your problem but when I use for Host the IP address I gave you + username: olivier@eliplay.eu and the password given on Dec 5th, it works. I can connect.
Please check it out with a colleague if you can't access it because my client is becoming impatient.
Well I've been accessing it all day, Harshard so what can I tell you?
I'm not happy about how this issue is handled. I guess i will try to reach out to Mercedes to see if she can make anything happen here because I'm getting now a pissed off client and no solution.
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I'd like to reverse the process and delete all duplicate photos of the media library keeping only English but I need to do that in one-go not by selecting for each page of 20 photos and use the delete permanently function.
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You will need an sql query for this which I have to write first. I'll get back to you as soon as I have it together.
P.S You plugins need to be updated and I would suggest that you do not neglect this You can check the latest released versions under "My Account -> Downloads" on this site.
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