Adding and Importing Documents to your Online Library

This is lesson 6 of our free e-course on how to create a WordPress document library with the Document Library Pro plugin - barn2.com/word.... It shows you how to add and import documents using a choice of methods.
To take the full course, either watch on UA-cam at • Free E-Course - Create... or do the course on our website at barn2.com/kb/d.... Both options are completely free of charge, but if you do it on the website then you also get full written instructions and a certificate at the end.

[@tartanrambo]

Hi there, I'm enjoying following your videos immensely. I have a suggestion for you if you don't mind considering it. At 1:01 Creating Categories and Tags, there is an assumption made regarding the organisation of our Document Library. You assume that we already have our documents pre-organised in some form of a hierarchy filing system prior to buying Document Library Pro.
It may not seem obvious to everyone watching your videos, or even to yourself, that the reason many (like myself) will be looking at your solution is we have a whole load of documents that need to be organised quickly and stored with more arriving every day (envision The Sorcerers Apprentice).
You may not be planning an update to this video series, however, may I suggest you add a short piece on exactly this scenario facing so many people? Granted, this would be of little to no use for a professional secretary or administrator who could do this in their sleep. But, they would likely already have a Document Library solution in place.
Think about the newly hired, or newly promoted, faced with the challenge of creating a Document Library from scratch. How is your excellent range of products placed to enable this small but mission-critical requirement to be solved?
Keep creating your great video tutorials. They are always greatly received...

[@Barn2Plugins]

Hi Tartan, thank you for the comment and feedback.
Once website owners have the organization of their documents laid out, the fastest way to upload and organize them is to use the Bulk uploader. This is discussed at 11:26 in this video.
For more details on this, we have an article - barn2.com/kb/add-import-documents/#bulk-import-documents
I hope this helps. If you have further questions, you can reach us via our support center - barn2.com/support-center/

[@mqcarpenter]

If you use the convert option for the media library, it would be nice to be able to use the import to update the metadata. With large media libraries it will take a lot of manual work to do that.

[@Barn2Plugins]

Hi, Matthew. Thanks for your suggestion! I love the idea and we would be keen to explore adding this in the future. Please could you let me know the exact file type(s) that you have in mind and example metadata fields that you'd like to add to the document data automatically when converting/importing files from the Media Library, so that I can add this to our feature request list. You can also send this info via our Support Center if you prefer: barn2.com/support-center/