Site about to go live. How to manage all these images?

  • I have build a site that is about to go live. Over the next week I will be entering all my WooCommerce products, and each product will have its own set of images. Some will have 2 or 3 pics, while other products might have a dozen pics. There are hundreds of products. The million dollar question:

    How should I manage all the images?

    After much researching I have only become more confused because I have found there are four general concepts that people use:

    > I could just upload all the pics to a single (default) image library and let WordPress figure it out.

    > I could let WordPress organize images into month/year folders. However, that might make more sense for Posts/Pages instead of Products.

    > Get a Media Gallery plugin that creates folders and stuff everything into categorized folders.

    > Or maybe host all images in some cloud service and simply link to them in my WordPress site. I don’t mind paying for this service, and I like this idea because it (potentially) makes restoring from backup much simpler and faster. The loan downside I can see is I will have to figure out how to link to external files instead of the Media Gallery.

    I want to get on the right path the from start here, so any thoughts/guidance offered here would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Hi,

    If you give each image a description, caption, standardized informative name, it is manageable to upload all images to the default media library and search by keyword. it is possible to import to the custom fields if the image information is already in spreadsheet format.

    there are plugins such as Wp All Import and WooCommerce add-on that can import products from CSV spreadsheet format. the plugins make updating product information easy in the future, and can automatically import images.

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