Photos are stored in wp-content/uploads/hm_bbpui/… because Inline Image Upload for bbPress uses its own folder and does not register uploads in the Media Library. This is by design and generally a good practice – the Media Library is meant for managing website content, while forum attachments are kept separate.
The Pro version also lets you edit the upload path if you need more control.
Okay, but doesn’t the fact that it creates a folder for each topic ID end up creating thousands of useless folders?
If you use plugins like smush, are the images compressed/resized by smush since they’re in “specific” folders?
Thanks
Hi there,
Yes, if you have a large forum you may end up with a lot of folders. For large sites, you may want to consider using our S3 Image Storage for bbPress plugin in conjunction with Image Upload for bbPress Pro to offload forum images onto Amazon S3, if you are concerned about performance impacts on your web server. That said, I’m not sure how many forum posts it would take to make a noticeable impact on performance due to the number of folders in your filesystem – probably a lot!
On the plus side, our plugin’s approach (decoupled from the media library) means that you won’t be filling up your posts table with an attachment post for each image.
I can’t speak to the plugin you referenced specifically, but unfortunately plugins that are designed to work with the media library won’t likely work with our plugin.
Ok thanks, so is there a way to set up resizing of images uploaded with your plugin?
Hi,
The Pro version of the plugin includes options to set file compression and to limit both image dimensions and file size. Would that help with what you’re looking to achieve?
