Moving uploaded pictures to a new folder

  • Hi everybody.
    In order to keep my website structure tidy, I thought of creating some brand new categorized folders for my images.
    Problem is -once the images are uploaded- I can actually move them to a new folder, but when I got back to the Dashboard I find out the images somehow “stick” to the original link and appear like missing/broken in WP.

    How can I make their original URLs pointing to the folders actually containing the pictures?

    Thanks in advance!

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  • The uploads folder is pretty tidy already as it organizes images in folders with the year and months. I’m not sure why you would want to mess with that.

    I found this tutorial yesterday that allows you to change the directory to another folder, – https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-change-the-default-media-upload-location-in-wordpress-3-5/
    but there’s a warning in there, that this tutorial is not for beginners. Messing about with that may break things.

    Thread Starter Rtank

    (@rtank)

    Hi Christine, and first of all thanks for your answer.

    I’m afraid the upload folder is *not enough* tidy, not for my purposes at least.
    I’ve just turned-off that year/month folder thing, as my website basically runs on two major image galleries being updated with new images every now and then.
    Using a folder/month structure means having an useless content breaking to me, not to mention how painful can be looking for a specific image through a 12 folders per year structure instead of easily browsing one single folder.

    I’ll be looking into that tutorial, tho.

    Thanks again!

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