Feature Request: Media Library Folders

  • Danny159

    (@danny159)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hey,

    It is become more apparent with some of my larger websites that WP Core is missing a major feature that a lot of other CMS systems have in the media library.

    This feature is folder structure… There needs to be a feature – happening pretty soon that enabled people to create folders and place media into those folders and so on… this wouldn’t be that hard using dynamic mySQL folders not actual file structure…

    For example keep the wp-content/uploads/2013……..
    But the database tells the media what virtual folder it should be in?

    Surely this is logical and should have been included in Core years ago?

    Dan

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  • Peter Booker

    (@peterbooker)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Dan,

    This is a hotly discussed topic and most people which have websites dealing with large amounts of media have similar frustrations. I am sure this will be dealt with at some point, but have no idea when that might be.

    In the meantime, depending on how comfortable you are customizing WordPress, you can add a custom taxonomy to the media items, allowing you to essentially have ‘Categories’ but for media. This has allowed me to avoid the worst of the pain for several clients.

    You can get more information on Taxonomies here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies

    and here is the code I used to add Categories to Media.

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