Image organization tips

  • sdollen

    (@sdollen)


    20 years ago

    This is truely a micsellaneous post, but I’m curious if anyone has any tips on keeping posted images organized in any rational manner?
    It would seem to me that if you place a lot of images in your posts, that at some point, you’ll have all these jpegs or gif files on your server all in one folder and you can’t tell one from another. If you delete them at some point, you’ll have a big fat red X in your post.
    I’d love to hear any tips, ideas, suggestions.
    Thanks ??

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  • I think I’ve got one…
    Create a new now for this year, and a folder every month. Change your upload path to that folder, and set the permissions.
    I saw Matt’s dropbox, so I was going to drop him a line sometime. But, that’s what came to me (that I have yet to type about in better detail and grammar). =)
    – Bryan

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    I don’t happen to use this, but one way of managing them is to create a new directory (typically under /images) for each month. If you use WP for uploading your images, you do need to change the upload destination directory, but just once a month.
    Another option is to split it up by categories (i.e. the blog’s).
    Myself, I happen to like dumping everything in one place.

    Beel

    (@beel)

    A couple of ideas would be to make subdirectories in your image folder for year/month maybe and/or include the post id in the name of the images.

    Thread Starter sdollen

    (@sdollen)

    Wow..thanks for the quick responses and the tips. Those make a lot of sense and I like the idea of putting the post id in the image name. I’ve used the lazy standard of leaving the default name and those can be pretty non-descriptive.
    Thanks again!

    Zarniwoop

    (@zarniwoop)

    When I thought about enhancing my ImageBrowser plugin I found two possible solutions for the sorting problem:

    1. Sort images into subfolders and keep some information in an additional file (other sizes, thumbnails, comments, …) per directory. This would be nice for all people who already have subfolders but also has some drawbacks because information is scattered around over all subdirectories. Maybe synchronizing this with a database table for faster searching and other functionality would be possible.
    2. Categories like WP uses them and a single folder. This would have been nice in the beginning but there already exist too many solutions based on subfolders and other plugins which wouldn’t integrate nicely.

    Do you have some other ideas and feature suggestions?
    Thanks,
    Florian

    jonimueller

    (@jonimueller)

    The first thought that popped into my head is if you have that many images that you have to sort by month, then maybe you need to think about a photoblog (e.g., Pictorialis, which is basically a WPhotoblog!)
    The only other advice I can offer is that I have a lot of static images (buttons and stuff) that are static on my site, and I have a directory called /site-graphics where that kind of thing goes, and post-specific images go in /images. There just aren’t that many that I need to subdivide them like that.
    Hope you find a solution. And I just steered someone toward Florian’s plugin tonight. I have downloaded it, but because I am having login issues, I can’t get back in to play with it!
    Joni ??

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