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Does’t work for me unfortunately. This is what I tried.

sudo -u www-data mkdir /var/www/blog/wp-content/uploads/wiki_images/

sudo -u www-data ln -sf /var/www/w/ /var/www/blog/wp-content/uploads/wiki_images/

Then went to advanced settings and added:
/var/www/blog/wp-content/uploads/wiki_images/

Pressed save changes. Went to bulk optimize. Showed “There are no images to optimize.”

I thought perhaps I may not add it to wp-content sub folder. Therefore also tried something else.

sudo -u www-data mkdir /var/www/blog/forum_images/

sudo -u www-data ln -sf /var/www/forum/ /var/www/blog/forum_images/

Didn’t work either.

I’ve tried the symlinks earlier today. Didn’t succeed.

The issue is, the images are “a million” of sub folders. I.e. /var/www/w/images/thumb/[abc]/[xyz]/. And wordpress expects them all in one folder, i.e /var/www/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02 with no sub folders?

Could you give an example symlink command please that worked for you?

Yes, this would be awesome!

Maybe no separate php tool would be required. Can wordpress plugins write outside the wordpress folder? That would do if we could add extra paths such as /var/www + sub folders. And if wordpress plugins are not allowed to write outside the wordpress folder, perhaps some symlink trick could do?

That did the trick. Thank you.

Why depend on google for a thing as simple as a font? I don’t like how google is handling privacy and don’t see why they need to appear on every website. And preferred not to have them on my blog.

How can I disable fonts.googleapis.com?