Media indexing aborts with parse and pattern errors
Pressing Index Now fails with parse or pattern errors, or reports no attachments, so the library is never indexed.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 1 May 2023 · last reported 6 March 2025
What's going wrong
Owners of WordPress sites running this media size plugin report that the index step either fails outright or finishes with no usable results.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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