How to make Multisite media URLs pretty again

You’d have to make a plugin that would act like ms-files, and then edit .htaccess to push /files/ through that file.

However, ugly is faster. it’s less prone to error, and it’s not like these images really matter where they are. Why do you want to do this?

Because I am moving servers but not URLs. The links to the images in posts will change with the new file structure.

ETA: A couple of the blogs are very image-intensive and tend to overload the WordPress importer, even when cut into smaller pieces, so I wanted to FTP over the files.

Because I am moving servers but not URLs. The links to the images in posts will change with the new file structure.

… Huh? Does not compute. If you’re moving servers, pick up the files, drop ’em on the new server. Pick up the DB, drop it on the new server. No Import/Export needed.

As I mentioned above, I’m not moving the entire site, just migrating a subset of blogs. (A couple of the blogs are also getting new URLs, but they are not the image-intensive ones that are causing me headaches.) The tables names in the databases are not the same. The new install uses the new file upload path.

Well you have three options.

1) Install WordPress 3.4, import the sites, and then upgrade to 3.5

2) Move them all over (hang on), delete the ones you DO NOT want, and carry on

3) Get rid of the idea that you have to have ‘pretty’ URLs for images, given that most people will never notice them in the first place, and it’ll make your site run faster without ms-files.

We decided to take option 3.