Attachment Files Importer
Scan your WordPress installation for all missing attachment files, download them from another WordPress installation and resize them with your defined image sizes.
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Attachment Files Importer shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 30+ sites, is rated 1/5 and was last updated 13 years ago, and scores 19/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (30+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 12 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 3.6 (latest is 7.1)
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Attachment Files Importer stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| attachments | >100 |
| files | >100 |
| import | >100 |
| importer | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 1 from 2 reviews
About Attachment Files Importer
From the official readme · v0.3.0Description
Scan your WordPress installation for all missing attachment files, download them from another WordPress installation and resize them with your defined image sizes.
Know that the plugin will not create new media on your installation database, it’ll just use the existings entries of medias in your database to retrieve the physical files on another WordPress installation.
E.g.: http://serverA.com have an entry for the mediaX in his database. The path for the physical file is supposed to be http://serverA.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/mediaX.jpg but it’s not here. If you know that this same media exists on http://serverB.com + the physical file, you can use this plugin on http://serverA.com, specifying http://serverB.com in the Server URL field and the plugin will search the file here: http://serverB.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/mediaX.jpg. If it find it, it will be downloaded here: http://serverA.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/mediaX.jpg.
Do you need this?
This plugin is useful if you have multiple instances of a same project installed on multiple servers.
For example, a team of developers, each of them having a copy of the “master” installation located at the production server. Periodically, the database of the “master” installation is given to the developers who update their code through a VCS (like SVN, GIT, Mercurial). There is chance that the uploads folder is not versionned, which is good, so the plugin is useful here to download the medias from the “master” installation.
How tu use it?
In the admin, go to Tools/Import and choose the Attachment files importer. From here, enter the URL of the WordPress installation that contain the physical files of medias and click Import.
Existing files will not be overriden.
Debug
The plugin is in an early stage and bugs may occurs. If you want to show a detailled report of the importation process, add this line to your wp-config.php file:
define('ATTACHMENT_FILES_IMPORT_DEBUG', true);
Installation
- Upload the
attachment-files-importerfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to the Tools -> Import screen, click on Attachment Files
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FAQ
Attachment Files Importer: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 29, 2026
Is Attachment Files Importer free?
Yes. Attachment Files Importer is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Attachment Files Importer safe to use in 2026?
Attachment Files Importer shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 30+ sites, is rated 1/5 and was last updated 13 years ago, and scores 19/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Attachment Files Importer?
Attachment Files Importer is active on 30+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 8,317 times since it launched in June 2013. It was downloaded 67 times in the last 30 days.
Does Attachment Files Importer work with WordPress 7.1?
Attachment Files Importer is officially tested up to WordPress 3.6.1, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Attachment Files Importer last updated?
The latest version, 0.3.0, was released on January 31, 2014 (13 years ago).
Who makes Attachment Files Importer?
Attachment Files Importer is developed and maintained by KLicheR.
What are the best alternatives to Attachment Files Importer?
The most popular alternatives to Attachment Files Importer are Export media with selected… (40K+ installs), File Upload Types by WPForms (40K+ installs) and Lightbox with PhotoSwipe (20K+ installs).
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