How organize uploaded media in WP

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I am new in WordPress and I came from Joomla  How can I  if I can do it     organize the uploaded media into folder and subfolder using WordPress   If I go in my backend administration panel I have the Media sub panel in which I can add a file  for example a jpg image   The problem is that all the files are added in the same library   I want to organize my library having subcategory subfolder in which the uploaded file are placed   For example I want have category image for   Spring articles images  and  project management articles image   etc   How can do it

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The plugin Media File Manager advanced is amazing and allow you to create folders and subfolders very easily and move files with a simple drag & drop.

Check it at: http://wordpress.org/plugins/media-file-manager-advanced/

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I don t believe this can be done  out of the box  in wordpress  The closest thing is storing media uploads by date-based subfolders  as per the option Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders on the media settings screen   Next best might be to create a  dummy  page hierarchy that serves as your folder tree  and then attach your images to these  This would give you a logical grouping  which could exist in relative isolation from your actual page or post hierarchy  But of course this won t give you the files organised like this in the file system  eg you couldn t of course FTP to this structure   Otherwise I think you ll need to find a plugin or write something yourself to handle this   Some plugins I found after a quick google for  wordpress plugin media folders     http   wordpress org extend plugins media-file-manager  http   wordpress org extend plugins media-folders    While these might not be precisely what you want  they might give you clues direction towards implementing something yourself   Although that first one looks promising    Just FYI at least one similar question has been asked over on Wordpress stackexchange   https   wordpress stackexchange com questions 13030 media-library-plugins-for-better-file-management  It might pay to have a good hunt about over there for something more substantial   Good luck

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Check this plugin WP Media Folder at Joomunited  you can    Create visual folders and move file inside Restrict file visualisation Create galleries from folders       Since the last months they add a lot of must use features   This is a paid plugin but it worth the money  I install it now by default on all my customers websites

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Currently  media organisation is possible   The  problem  with the media library in wordpress is always interesting  Check the following plugin to solve this  WordPress Real Media Library  WP RML creates a virtual folder structure based on an own taxonomy     It allows you to organize your wordpress media library in a nice way with folders  It is easy to use  just drag amp drop your files and move it to a specific folder  Filter when inserting media or create a gallery from a folder      Turn your WordPress media library to the next level with folders   categories  Get organized with thousands of images       RML  Real Media Library  is one of the most wanted media wordpress   plugins  It is easy to use and it allows you to organize your   thousands of images in folders  It is similar to wordpress categories   like in the posts       Use your mouse  or touch  to drag and drop your files  Create  rename    delete or reorder your folders If you want to select a image from the      Select a image   -dialog  e  g  featured image  you can filter when   inserting media  Just install this plugin and it works fine with all   your image and media files  It also supports multisite       If you buy  you get  Forever FREE updates and high quality and fast   support    From the product description i can quote  If you want to try the plugin  there is also a demo on the plugin page   Update  1  2017-01-27   Manage your uploads physically  A long time ago I started to open this thread and now there is a usable extension plugin for Real Media Library which allows you to physically manage your uploads folder     Check out this plugin  https   wordpress org plugins physical-custom-upload-folder   Do you know the wp-content uploads folder  There  the files are stored in year month based folders  This can be a very complicated and mass process  especially when you are working with a FTP client like FileZilla   Moving already uploaded files  This plugin does not allow to move the files physically when you move a file in the Real Media Library because WordPress uses the URL s in different places  It is very hard to maintain such a process  So this only works for new uploads   Physical organisation on server    Please read on if you are developer  I as developer thought about a solution about this  Does it make sense to organize the uploads on server  too  Yes  i think  Many people ask to organize it physically  I think also that the process of moving files on server and updating the image references is very hard to develop  There are many plugins out now  which are saving the URLs in their own-created database-tables   Please check this thread where i explained the problem  https   wordpress stackexchange com questions 226675 physical-organization-of-wordpress-media-library-real-media-library-plugin

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Best is Enhanced Media Library plugin http   wordpress org plugins enhanced-media-library  It s adding as many category  taxonomies you want  Works just great  You can filter media everywhere  plus have the categories in the menu choices  can be usefull also

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All the plugins listed above have a serious problem - they are using the virtual folders implemented via WordPress Taxonomy API  while X4 Media Library is using the real physical folders located in your wp-content uploads directory on the server   What happens when you put some images to the folder using any plugin listed above  Because of they are using the virtual folders  the destinition folder is represented as a taxonomy tag in the database  so they just assign the folder s tag to moved files   There are no real modifications happened on your physical disk  in the wp-content uploads directory  You can see that images URL didn t change when you move them to another folder   Alternatively  with X4 Media Library if you put some files to the folder they will really be moved to that physical folder on your disk  in the wp-content uploads directory  and the images URL will be changed automatically   Moreover  this plugin will make sure that all the links associated with these images in all your Posts  Pages and other custom types will be updated automatically

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As of October 2015  WP 4 3 1 I have found only two plugins actually affecting image locations as in    folders  amp  subfolders       Custom Upload Dir  but as the name says  just on upload  You can work from your  post slug  or  categories   upload your images in the context of these post pages  and this tool will form subfolders from it  Which is great  SEO-wise    Or you just even ignore all that and mandate under    Build a path template    i e  travels france paris-at-night to upload to that subdir of your WP-Uploads folder   Of course you d have to keep changing for the uploads to follow  Limiting my overall faith  that this is a stable long-term tool  despite 10 000  active installs   Media File Manager allows to move already uploaded images and changes the paths in posts and pages using them accordingly  Its interface reminds of    Norton Commander 1 0    but it does the job   Except for folder renames and deletes  So if you want to rename  better move images to a newly namend folder  then manually deleting the old     All of the following do NOT do the job    WP Media Folder is NOT changing actual direcory location  thus not actually changing paths to your images thus also not affecting image URLs  Despite its name  Folder is just their visualisation of yet-another-taxonomy  I invested  19 to learn that  Enhance Media Library is big  free and very popular  wordpress counts 40 000 installs  but is also not changing physical location and  thus  URLs    Thus the accepted answer is in my opinion wrong  Media File Manager advanced appears gone and is deemed dangerous

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You can use the Media Library Folders plugin  It allows you to create folders  move or copy images to a folder and even includes a sync function to bulk add images uploaded by FTP to the server to the Wordpress media library

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I have gone around and found this free plugin https   wordpress org plugins filebird  after very tired with a lots of files in my WordPress default media management  After I installed the plugin  I am able to organize all images and other files into folders  categories  just drag and drop to upload move files into folders and drag and drop to rearrange folders

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