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How to Download Your Entire Media Folder in WordPress?

How to Download Your Entire Media Folder in WordPress? As you know, in WordPress, your media files (photo, video, music files) are kept either in a folder (uploads by default) or in separate annual and monthly folders (such as 2014-01, 2014-02) depending on the settings you make. Now we can capture them via FTP connection, […]

17 February 2015 2 dk okuma WordPress Blog

How to Download Your Entire Media Folder in WordPress?

As you know, in WordPress, your media files (photo, video, music files) are kept either in a folder (uploads by default) or in separate annual and monthly folders (such as 2014-01, 2014-02) depending on the settings you make. Now we can capture them via FTP connection, some of you will ask what is the need for such a plug-in. Downloading via FTP is one method, but in this method, we can easily download the entire media file with a few clicks, so you do not need to establish the connection and wait for a long time.

How to Download Your Entire Media Folder in WordPress

How to Download Your Entire Media Folder in WordPress? Step 1

If you take backups at periodic intervals, this method will allow you to back up your media files at the interval you want. Another benefit is that you can optimize the photos on your site with this method in order to speed up your site.

If you open the downloaded folder to your computer, make the necessary changes to the photos, and upload them back to your server, making sure they have the same name, you will not need an extra plug-in, etc. You can optimize your photos without using it.

How to Download Your Entire Media Folder in WordPress? Step 2

Let’s see how to install the plugin; We download and activate our plugin from the link here. The plugin then creates a title under the downMl title in the left menu.

After clicking on this title, it compresses our entire media folder and presents it to us as a zip file. Then, when we click on the link, your entire media folder is ready.

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