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  • Resolved montengarde

    (@montengarde)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    Hello:
    As many are, I am investigating using WP Docs as a replacement for Memphis Docs library, as they are at end of life.
    I’ve installed it and tried uploading a couple of files. I notice that files go into the media library instead of a separate repository as Memphis did. I am not keen on having all the pdfs and word docs that we need to store mixed up with images and videos in the media library. It will make the media library more difficult to maintain. I may need to have to live with it, unless there is another option. On a related question, If I do the import from Memphis docs function, do the files remain where they are or get moved to the media library? If they stay and then new files are added and go into media, we would end up with a messy mix.

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  • Plugin Author Fahad Mahmood

    (@fahadmahmood)

    @montengarde thank you for considering the WP Docs as a replacement.

    The directory management structure of this plugin is slightly different from Memphis, we are not creating a lot of _posts table entries but using the existing one in RDBMS fashion with foreign and primary keys with metadata so we can avoid burdening the database.

    All the media like videos, images, documents and other stuff are not mixed up by choice in this plugin, it is actually the default feature/style of the WordPress actually. Media library was designed like this since beginning.

    About import from memphis to wp-docs plugin, at our best we tried to link/sync the items where they are instead of relocating everything from scratch but their entries in the database would be maintained differently when you click import. So whatever it would be, a good method to continue further. 1000+ of people are already using it and they are happy with it.

    Please do not feel it as a messy mix, it is the default feature of the WordPress. Either you like it or not, by default WordPress uploads every new item to YEAR/MONTH directory with all of its possible thumbnails etc.
    In case you need a separate directory for each file-types so you can use this plugin to create separate directories logically, which is already in action. Memphis was already mixing all of this stuff the _posts table with another post_type and staking-up the _meta table with huge information about each file, wp-docs is simply using the existing fields of library module.

    Thread Starter montengarde

    (@montengarde)

    I wasn’t concerned about the database issues, but more the file storage tree.
    I guess my main concern is the that Memphis library files are in
    wpcontent/uploads/mdocs
    whereas the media library files are in
    wpcontent/uploads/<year>/<month>
    If at some point in the future memphis is removed, would we loose the mdocs directory and thus leave the imported filepaths hanging?

    Plugin Author Fahad Mahmood

    (@fahadmahmood)

    No, you will never loose the files and the directory structure because wherever these files are, wp-docs will start using it from there. This is how it designed. But new files will continue using the library area.

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