Organizing Media Files on Server

  • Resolved sgclark

    (@sgclark)


    3 years ago

    Hi:

    I’m dropping this post here as I am not sure where to go to get answers for the question I have and I figure this forum is as good a place as any to start.

    I’ve had my blog for many years and I have a lot of images uploaded to my site and residing on my server. See: https://www.sgclark.com/wallpapers.

    The basic issue that I would like to fix is that early on when I was blogging and running my personal site, I simply uploaded images to the ‘/wp-content/uploads’ directory. Later on, I switched my WP settings so that I now upload images to the server using the /wp-content/uploads/[year]/[month] directory structure.

    This means that I have a *ton* of images residing in the ‘root’ ‘/wp-content/uploads’ directory and I’d like to clean this up and put those images residing in that root directory into the appropriate /wp-content/uploads/[year]/[month] directory based on the image’s upload date. This would also let me get rid of images on my server that I may not be using any more and/or are duplicates. I basically just want to clean things up.

    Does anyone know of a way to do this so that I’d be able to move the images on the server (maybe via a WP interface) and ensure that the front end website pages also change and I don’t have a boat load of broken images on my front end site?

    I’ve been searching and downloading all sorts of WP Plugins but nothing seems to do what I want here.

    I am also open to ‘you’re insane, if its working now don’t mess with it’ sort of feedback. ??

    Stephen

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  • Plugin Author David Lingren

    (@dglingren)

    Thanks for your questions and for the detailed explanation of your situation. You have already thought about the most difficult part of the solution:

    move the images on the server (maybe via a WP interface) and ensure that the front end website pages also change and I don’t have a boat load of broken images on my front end site

    MLA does not have any built-in capability to move files on the server, with or without maintaining associated links. There are a few plugins that allow you to rename files, but I do not know of any solution that also supports moving the files from one folder to another.

    I regret the news is not better, but I am marking this topic resolved simply because I have answered your question to the best of my ability. If you do find a solution it would be great to see an update here so others can benefit. Thanks for your understanding and your interest in MLA.

    Thread Starter sgclark

    (@sgclark)

    Thanks for responding. I will keep on looking. I use MLA on my site and it is wonderful. You helped me out several months ago with the pagination functionality and it’s great!

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