Store files in separate folders

Glen, thanks for responding so quickly. I apologize in advance for the lengthy message. I am trying to create a site in which members of my extended family can share pictures, documents, and recordings with each other. The site will have three galleries, one for each of the categories I just mentioned. The site visitor will upload their files into the appropriate gallery. Filtering the contents of the media library by file extension is problematic because a “document” such as a birth certificate may be uploaded as a pdf or a jpg (for example) so I need a way to definitively categorize the file uploads. I was able to use a plugin called Media Library Assistant that creates a category attribute that you can filter a gallery, on and that was working great, but I needed a way for the site visitor to assign the files being uploaded to one of the category options. I have a dropdown field on the contact form 7 for the user to choose but I can’t seem to figure out how to get that value to populate to the category attribute in the media library. As an alternative I thought I might use folders in the wp-contents directory to separate the uploads by category and use a plugin that can create a gallery from a folder instead of the media library. Hence my question to you about the ability to upload to separate folders. BUt what I wish I could do would be to somehow use some sort of attribute field in the media library to categorize the uploads. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by beachman14.

Hi, Glen.

First, I want to thank you again for helping me with my other issue. I waited until that one was resolved before pursuing this question. I would like the site visitor to be able to populate two fields on the Contact Form 7 that will be applied as Media Library Assistant file attributes when dropped into the Media Library:

Att. Category
Description

I am hoping that since your plugin has access to both the data in the contact form and the file in the media library, this might be possible. I love your plugin and appreciate all your help.

Mark