Media Library Folders Pro Installation

Media Library Folders Pro is a different plugin than Media Library Folders. You will want to install MLFP but before activating it you will want to deactivate MLF. Otherwise you are going to see error codes and wonder where all of the great MLFP capabilities are.

Installation Instructions

For automatic installation:

1. Login to your website and go to the Plugins section of your admin panel.
2. Click the Add New button.
3. Click the Upload Plugin button at the top of the Add Plugins page.
4. Select the plugin zip file from your computer then click the Install Now button.
5. You should see a message stating that the plugin was installed successfully.
6. Click the Activate Plugin link.

For manual installation:

1. You should have access to the server where WordPress is installed. If you don’t, see your system administrator.
2. Copy the plugin zip file up to your server and unzip it somewhere on the file system.
3. Copy the “media-library-plus-pro” folder into the /wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress installation.
4. Login to your website and go to the Plugins section of your admin panel.
5. Look for “Media Library Folders Pro for WordPress” and click Activate.

To upload by FTP:

1. Unzip the plugin zip file.
2. Upload the folder created by the zip file to the /wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress installation.
3. Login to your website and go to the Plugins section of your admin panel.
4. Look for “Media Library Folders Pro for WordPress” and click Activate.

Folder Tree Not Loading

Users who report this issue can usually fix it by running the Media Library Folders Reset plugin that comes with Media Library Folders.

1. First make sure you have installed the latest version of Media Library Folders.
2. Deactivate Media Library Folders and activate Media Library Folders Reset and run the Reset Database option from the Media Library Folders Reset sub menu in the dashboard.
3. After that, reactivate Media Library Folders. It will do a fresh scan of your media library database and no changes will be made to the files or folders on your site.

How to Unhide a Hidden Folder

1. Go to the hidden folder via your cPanel or FTP and remove the file ‘mlpp-hidden’.
2. In the Media Library Folders Menu, click the Check for New folders link. This will add the folder back into Media Library Folders
3. Visit the unhidden folder in Media Library Folders and click the Sync button to add contents of the folder. Before doing this, check to see that there are no thumbnail images in the current folder since these will be regenerated automatically; these usually have file names such as image-name-150×150.jpg, etc.
4. Repeat step 3 for each sub folder.

Folders and images added to the site by FTP are not showing up in Media Library Folders

Media Library Folders does not work like the file manager on you computer. It only display images and folders that have been added to the Media Library database. To display new folders that have not been added through the Media Library Folders you can click the Check for new folders option in the Media Library Folders submenu in the WordPress Dashboard. If you allow WordPress to store images by year and month folders, then you should click the option once each month to add these auto-generated folders.

To add images that were upload to the site via the cPanel or by FTP, navigate to the folder containing the images in Media Library Folders and click the Sync button. This will scan the folder looking images not currently found in the Media Library for that folder. The Sync function only scans the current folder. If there are subfolders, you will need to individually sync them.

Folders Loads Indefinitely

This happens when a parent folder is missing from the folder data. To fix this you will need to perform a reset of the Media Library Folders database. To do this, deactivate Media Library Folders and activate Media Library Folders Reset and select the Reset Database option. Once the reset has completed, reactivate Media Library Folders and it will do a fresh scan of the Media Library data.

Unable to Update Media Library Folders Reset

Media Library Folders Reset is maintenance and diagnostic plugin that is included with Media Library Folders. It automatically updates when Media Library Folders is updated. There is no need to updated it separately. Users should leave the reset plugin deactivated until it is needed in order to avoid accidentally deleting your site’s folder data.