Update media file url in wordpress media library

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Currently my videos are hosted within my wp installation. I want to move all videos to my new server.

Currently, my media url are as follows .mp4

I am moving all videos to my central media server which will have this new url .mp4

My site will continue to be hosted where it is right now. I will only move media files.

I was hoping Velvet Blues Update URLs will be up for the job but it does not find any url to update on my website.

Probably because I am using JW player on my site and JW player post video using shortcode and ID only on the post area.

[jwplayer mediaid="13441"]

No URL on the post. Maybe this is the reason why velvet blue is not picking up the URLS to update.

Having said that, is there a way to update all media urls in wordpress install from the media library as if it was added as external url?

Which database entries holds the media URL? I am guessing my last resort will be to run find and replace on my database.

Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.

Thanks

Currently my videos are hosted within my wp installation. I want to move all videos to my new server.

Currently, my media url are as follows http://mysite/wp-content/uploads/video01.mp4

I am moving all videos to my central media server which will have this new url http://media.mysite/videos/video01.mp4

My site will continue to be hosted where it is right now. I will only move media files.

I was hoping Velvet Blues Update URLs will be up for the job but it does not find any url to update on my website.

Probably because I am using JW player on my site and JW player post video using shortcode and ID only on the post area.

[jwplayer mediaid="13441"]

No URL on the post. Maybe this is the reason why velvet blue is not picking up the URLS to update.

Having said that, is there a way to update all media urls in wordpress install from the media library as if it was added as external url?

Which database entries holds the media URL? I am guessing my last resort will be to run find and replace on my database.

Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.

Thanks

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is there a way to update all media urls in wordpress

I had a similar issue with my media files not having the correct file location after a Wordpress upgrade (somehow all the media links switched to a crazy incorrect directory), so I found Upload URL and Path Enabler which was able to rewrite all media URLs to a different path location where all my media was actually being stored.

Hope that helps someone else too!

I think you can create custom function to replace your old wp_attachment_url.

Assume you have same file name on your new media url, so you can add filter for jw player plugins only, something like this:

 if ( has_shortcode( get_the_content(), 'jw_player' ) ) { 
     function mynewmediaurl($wp_get_attachment_url){
$newmediadir = 'http://yourdomain/video/';
    $filename = basename($wp_get_attachment_url );
    $newurl = $newmediadir.$filename;
        return $newurl;
        }
    add_filter('wp_get_attachment_url', 'mynewmediaurl');
    }

you can add in your functions.php

Reference:

https://codex.wordpress/Function_Reference/has_shortcode

https://developer.wordpress/reference/functions/wp_get_attachment_url/

https://codex.wordpress/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/wp_get_attachment_url

https://developer.wordpress/reference/functions/get_attached_file/

Use WP-CLI's search-replace command to locate database entries with the old URL and replace them with the new one. You also can do a --dry-run to see how many entries are affected.

$ wp search-replace 'http://example/wp-content/uploads/' 'http://media.example/videos/' --dry-run

Assuming that there are limited video in your site. you can replace URL by do following :

Expert your site database , Replace URL and import again. This is safe way to replace URL. You can do same thing using sql query also but that can cause problem sometime.

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