virgvv,
Even if your site is creating year/month folders with MLP you do not have to use them. You are the first to give us feedback about not wanting to allow the year/month scheme so we will take that into consideration. At the moment, you can upload and move your files into folders through MLP and you can add them to posts and pages through the WP media library. But as we add more features to the plugin then one day it may work as you would like.
Alan
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virgvv
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Thanks for responding so quickly, Alan. I see that when I create a new folder, it does indeed create the folder at the top level, without a year and month. I ran into the directory problem when I tried to scan existing folders–it’s looking for photos in uploads, rather than the images directory I defined in WP’s config file. Not a deal breaker, but it is a bit annoying.
My suggestion is to have Media Library+ just inherit whatever images/uploads directory is set for that WordPress installation. I often designate something other than the uploads directory, if only because several of my clients’ sites have always put images in another directory, and I don’t want to move them all and/or have images in two directories.
Virginia
Ok, it is a good suggesting for a future release. Tell, where do your clients usually put their folder for images?
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virgvv
(@virgvv)
It varies. Some use an images directory right under the web document root. For multisite installations, I often use wp-content/images/sitename for each site. Not sure why I prefer “images” to “uploads”…just habit, I guess. (Several of my clients’ sites go way back, before they were using WP.) NextGen Gallery just automatically picks up whatever I’ve defined as the uploads directory.
Thanks for the answers. I am seriously considering switching to MaxGalleria with the paid addons. I especially like the action filters and hooks.
Ok, thank you for the alternative folder examples which I can use for testing. We have added your request to the queue but we got several other enhancements to complete first. We will let you know when this has been added.
Virginia,
We’ve scheduled to fix this the first of November. Thank you for the feedback. We’ll let you know when it’s live.
Best,
Bob
Virginia,
Today we have released version 4.19 that now allows a user defined upload folder. Let us know how that works for you.
Alan
