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I am new in WordPress and I came from Joomla.

I am having some problem to understand 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 pannel I have the Media sub pannel in which I can add a file (for example a jpg immage). The problem is that all the file is added in the same library.

I want to organize my library having subcategory\subfolder in which the uploaded file are putted.

For example I want have category immage for: "Spring articles immages" and "project managment articles immage", etcetc

How can do it?



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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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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 iscolation from your actual page or post heirarchy. 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":

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:


It might pay to have a good hunt about over there for something more substantial . Good luck!

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