Adding media to the Media Library using Cyberduck FTP

Open Cyberduck and connect to your server. Depending on the settings for your account, the folder you see upon connecting to the server may vary. Ask your site administrator if you’re not sure how to get to the folder you want. Since we’ll be uploading media in this tutorial, we want to be in the folder for the current month and year. For most WordPress environments, this is wp-content/uploads//. At the time of this writing, September of 2016, the folder we’ll be uploading to is wp-content/uploads/2016/09. (Note that if no media has been uploaded in the current month or year, you may have to create these folders).

To make sure you’re uploading to the correct folder, check the address bar (circled). If you are, hit the Upload button.

Find the file you’d like to upload. Once submitted, this is what it’ll look like while the file uploading to your server.

Once the file is uploaded, we’ll now need to add the file to your WordPress media library. To do this, select “Media From FTP” on the menu bar, and click “Search & Register”

The plugin should automatically find any files that have been uploaded to your server, but not yet added to your media library. Click the checkbox for the file you just uploaded, and hit “Update Media”

If all goes well, this is what you’ll see. You can now add this file from the Media Library on any page, post or anywhere else on your site as you normally would.