Switching to month and year based (uploads)

  • Please help. I have shot myself in the foot big time.

    My main WordPress installation is two years old and has way over 2000 images in the uploads folder. Little did I know that there are limitations when it comes to FTP with hosts (I don’t see all files when connecting as the server truncates files at 2000).

    With a little bit of foresight and web savvy, I should of course have chosen the option for a year and month based folder structure.

    Please tell me that there is a plugin or something, that will enable me to split existing uploads in to a year and month based folder structure. Preferebly by posts date (not upload date).

    If there is no deirect solution (other than manually editing 2500 posts…) What if I went back and deleted all thumbnails? I assume they are created at the time of upload only? Will this break something (other than not being able to see thumbnails in the Media Library? Once I get the files down in number -> I would switch to a month and year based folder structure.

    Thanks for looking.

    Risto

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  • Your post is 6 months old, so I’m sure this is too late to be of any help, but someone else might like to know. I have a local install of WordPress that I use for testing things like this out.

    If you enable month- and year-based folders, any uploaded files will go into folders associated with the post date and not the upload date. However, changing the setting does not effect files you’ve already uploaded. It only applies to uploads going forward. Hopefully you were able to find a plug-in to help you out!

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