The plugin hasn’t been updated in a while and is constantly being flagged by security plugins as “Abandoned” and a security risk.

This plugin is essential to me. Could you please update it?

I want to set upload rules jut for some custom post types. I found this plugin. Looks exactly kind I need except option to set rules by post type is greyed out.

Is there time frame when this could be expected to work?

Hi!

I don’t think that this plugin is working as described. It is changing the POST url; but NOT the ‘/uploads/…’ directory.

Hello,

I’m using WordPress 6.1 + WP CLI to import some images.
Sadly the path configuration has no effect on the upload.
It follows configuration only if I put nothing (which correctly result in importing the images to root) or I tick “year and month”.

Everything else doesn’t work :\

Thank you

Hello. Please add file uploads to folders alphabetically A B … AA AB, etc. With a nesting limit and the number of files in one folder. I have been using your plugin for a long time and there is not enough structure to manage a huge list of files. For example, caching modules have such a structure or a similar one. Thank you.

This is a great plugin, I use it on every site.

But now I’m getting regular warnings from various security plugins that “the plugin appears to be abandoned”.

Any chance you could update the version number or whatever?

Cheers.

Could this plugin help me re-house image files into a uploads/YYYY/MM folder structure which were not originally placed that way?

I think I should have stuck with the default setup. Now I’m 9,000 images in.

Setting: /portfolio/%current_user%/%category%

When I upload a file in a custom post type it creates the folder ./portfolio/%current_user% and drops the file there. The file should be in ./portfolio/%current_user%/%category% but it is not creating the %category% folder.

hi,

would this new folder structure also be mirrored in the media library itself? (so that it would show cleanly per user a folder)

Thx!

Do you have any plans to make it work with wp 5.6?

Hi everybody,

I love that plugin! And I wish I would have used it far far earlier… it happened that until now I have >200.000 (!) files (mostly image files) in my initial wordpress upload directory (only one directory, not organized by month/year). And it’s a mess when it comes to backups or ftp-/smb-accessing the files…

I wonder if anyone here can help me!?

Since I’ve found this plugin new images are each uploaded to a certain directory (on an annual base depending on the post’s year; so post is dated 1/1/2020 –> files are uploaded to wp-content/uploads/2020).

My challenge: does anyone know a plugin or tool or at least an automatic way to reorganize all my existing files – depending on the year of the post, they’re in, too? And that updates all the links after moving the files?

I really appreciate your help and wish you all the best, most of all that you’ll all stay healthy!

Best regards
Sven

Hello there,

Does this plugin work well with WooCommerce?

Thanks!

I am currently using the Custom Upload Dir plugin with /%post_id% which creates a unique folder for each post in uploads. (Seemed like a good idea a long time ago, but now it seems like micromanagement.)

Any pitfalls to switching back to the WP default of month/year folders and deactivating the plugin?

Thanks

Hi,

For more than a year now, I’m a happy user of the custom-upload-dir plugin.
At this moment, I receive the folowing error when adding products to my shopping cart:
Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /home/deb90669/domains/defotoverij.be/public_html/wp-content/plugins/custom-upload-dir/custom_upload_dir.php on line 184

I’m using version 3.4.5 of the plugin and wordpress 5.4.2.

Do you have any idea what could go wrong? Adding products that don’t require a file to be uploaded, still work fine.

Thanks for your help!
Lieven

Hello,

I have tested your plugin and works perfect. I just wanted to inform you about an error that i get when i have your plugin activated and i try to upload some theme or plugin from the manual way that wordpress offers in the /wp-admin area.

This must be a problem of the plugin since when i deactivate it i don’t get those errors.

Just reporting this.

First of all Happy New Year and thank you for this plugin!

I’m trying to use it to make sure that all media assocaited with a particular type of posts are stored in the same directory in order to restrict the access to this folder so only selected users/roles may have access to the files.

The template I′m using is “/%post_type%/%post_id%”.
When I′m testing it with some posts in the settings page it seems to work fine, however:

a) The directory is not created.
b) All added media ends up in the standard /wp-content/uploads folder

At the moment I am trying the plugin on a development PC runing on WAMP, and I’m wonder if this is part of the problem.
When doing a test for a post the resulting path is “C:\wamp64\www\XXX/wp-content/uploads/page/15” (I’ve replaced the name of the site with XXX), but the interesting part is the mixture of slashes and backslashes.
Is this correct?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Best regards:

Eric

First of all Happy New Year and thank you for this plugin!

I’m trying to use it to make sure that all media assocaited with a particular type of posts are stored in the same directory in order to restrict the access to this folder so only selected users/roles may have access to the files.

The template I′m using is “/%post_type%/%post_id%”.
When I′m testing it with some posts in the settings page it seems to work fine, however:

a) The directory is not created.
b) All added media ends up in the standard /wp-content/uploads folder

At the moment I am trying the plugin on a development PC runing on WAMP, and I’m wonder if this is part of the problem.
When doing a test for a post the resulting path is “C:\wamp64\www\XXX/wp-content/uploads/page/15” (I’ve replaced the name of the site with XXX), but the interesting part is the mixture of slashes and backslashes.
Is this correct?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Best reagrds:

Eric

First of all Happy New Year and thank you for this plugin!

I’m trying to use it to make sure that all media assocaited with a particular type of posts are stored in the same directory in order to restrict the access to this folder so only selected users/roles may have access to the files.

The template I′m using is “/%post_type%/%post_id%”.
When I′m testing it with some postsin the settings page it seems to work fine, however:

a) The directory is not created.
b) All added media ends up in the standard /wp-content/uploads folder

At the moment I am trying the plugin on a development PC runing on WAMP, and I’m wonder if this is part of the problem.
When doing a test for a post the resulting path is “C:\wamp64\www\XXX/wp-content/uploads/page/15” (I’ve replaced the name of the site with XXX), but the interesting part is the mixture of slashes and backslashes.
Is this correct?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Best reagrds:

Eric

Hi,

I love your plugin, great work! ??

I just like to ask you how I can add the taxonomie “primary-category” to the placeholders?

When you use %category% as a placeholder and a post is attached to 2 different categories, the upload path will have both categories in url slug like website.com/category1/category2

But I only like to have the Primary Category in my upload path.

Can you help me with this?

I had Custom Upload Dir set up to put media in whatever a post or page’s permalink folder was using the path template /%permalink%. However, I noticed that all of my media was uploading to my root folder. When I clicked ‘update settings’ on the Custom Update Dir settings page in admin, the %permalink% placeholder disappeared, and I noticed that it’s no longer listed with the other placeholders.

Has support for this been removed, and would it be possible to reinstate it?

Many thanks for an otherwise great plugin which provides much-needed customisation to sometimes-inflexible WordPress. ??

Hi,

Could you please tell me if this plugin would work with Media Cloud (S3 offload plugin) or a plugin that offloads media to S3 bucket?

Thank you ??

With any import plugin (i.e. WP All Import), what would be the best way to ensure that paths get created on the fly (as required)? Currently, all uploads still go to the default /uploads folder. Any plans to support WP All Import out of the box in the future?

Hey Ulf,

I have noticed that the Ultimate Member Plugin (well known and used for community sites) is not working with your plugin. I think the UM Plugin does not find the user image after it is uploaded. Response from the UM Plugins Upload Ajax: {“success”:false,”data”:”Invalid file ownership”}

Is there any possibility to exclude certain path from being handled by your plugin?

Thank you so much for your feedback,

Sebastian

Hi, i love your plugin and have used it for several sites. However, for my new site, the plugin does not seem to be able to create paths for my image uploads. The images all went into wp-content/uploads instead of the specified intended path. I have the latest plugin version 3.4.4, i am running on 5.0.4, using Divi Theme and PHP 7. Please kindly advise if there’s anything i can do to fix this? Thank you so much!

I have settings set to upload to %postname% (when I save it gets changed to /%postname%) and I have “Always get all parents” checked. It’s ignoring the parent and uploading directly to the %postname% folder. Same results when uploading Gutenberg block “file” and “image”. I’d really like media (images and files) to upload to the full nested folder path. Is this expected behavior? Or am I missing something?

Hi!

I really liked your plugin but it seems that some options don’t work anymore with last WordPress.

For example :
%category% and %postname%

Do you plan any update of your plugin?

Please let me know

It looks like this plugin hasn’t been updated in 3 years. Does anyone know of a good replacement?

It seems this plugin is no longer supported; but if anyone has this same problem, I hope this might be helpful.

I had a problem inserting image files into posts that had “Draft” status. Even if I had properly named and published the post before uploading images, as required, if I then set the post status to Draft, and then tried to insert images, the images would not be accessible in the Media Library. In the Media Library and in the “Insert Media” dialog, the thumbnails of those images just showed as gray squares.

I found the problem: in the plugin settings page, I had this set up in the “Build a path template” field:
/%post_type%/%permalink%

This worked fine for published posts, making a path of, for example:
/uploads/page/page-name/file-name.jpg

But when in draft status, it would put them into a different folder, like this, instead:
/uploads/page/?post_type=page&p=673/file-name.jpg

That broke everything.

I had to substitute %postname% instead of %permalink% in the path template as:
/%post_type%/%postname%

This solved the problem. Do not use %permalink% in your path template, or you will not be able to add images into posts with draft status!

I’m pretty new to WP, I’m redoing a site which has many images galleries the images are categorize by directory sample images/doors, images/windows etc, is there a way I can upload the door, windows etc. directories to the uploads directories on WP and have it detect the images or even better if I where to choose that specific directory to show me only the pictures with in?

It would just make life a lot easier to be able to keep the pictures organized by their perceptive category to simplify the creation of photo gallery for each.

Thanks

Hi,
I want to use this plugin, but since a year has been passed from the latest update, I afraid the developer won’t update this plugin anymore. Do you have any plan to develop it in future?

Thank you.