sinick

>…which of the two above formats is safe …

an image url is not going get your server hacked. worst that can happen is that someone links to your imageurl from another site and your server carries the traffic.

the day your traffic runs to couple of million hits a day you will have a problem and that would mean that you’re hosting something of interest (to someone.)

Keep an eye on your traffic logs if you are worried about this.

the urls are safe. this is how the web works, linking is the basis of the web. if it’s abused that’s a different problem to being hacked, and there are usually simple ways to deal with that.

ciao

ps thanks for the appeal for help on my behalf, but I’m doing fine.

Newbie alert! (me that is, I’m only days old with wordpress)

What works for me out of the box is something like URL/wp-content/uploads/wx20060429.gif.

>which should I use?

If both work, it’s a matter of preference. Don’t know too much about the best structure of wp specifically (yet), but urls (and directories) usually have structure to make things easier for you to find and manage. Because just about anything goes, structure helps. Not now, but later, when you have a couple of thousand images, etc.

>which one is secure so I don’t get hacked”

– you are not going to get hacked because of your use of image urls. You’ll get hacked because server/site setup, userids, passwords, folder rights etc. allows people to get onto your system. Image urls have to be available to users, otherwise it’s not going to work.

> would someone please answer my questions…

I’ve just been coming up to speed on how wp image upload works myself. I’m sure that if you dig around the archives and the FAQ you will find a ton on information about this.