Importing many images at once

[pwired]

Hi,

Normally you drag and drop manually your pictures from a local folder on your laptop into the image field of a page in the backend. But with a lot of pictures this becomes cumbersome. Is there a way, maybe a script, api or other, to import many pictures into the image field ?

[pwired]

Just found out that you can shift select many pictures and drag and drop them in the image field. All the shift selected pictures are then uploaded to the image field. That speeds things up

[horst]

You also can enable zip upload for imagefields! That has the nice side efect that the images are also alphabetically sorted. (What they are most often not when asynchron single uploading)

[ottogal]

... enable zip upload for imagefields... the images are also alphabetically sorted.

Thank you for this valuable hint!

[horst]

Thank you for this valuable hint!

Another hint is, if you have already unsorted images in your pages, to use this very nice snippet from @lostkobrakai (in ready.php): https://processwire.com/talk/topic/11069-sorting-images-in-backend/

[pwired]

Thanks for this great tip Just tried it and uploading galleries goes in seconds with only a few mouse clicks.