Title: Does this plugin update image location in wp_posts?
Last modified: November 23, 2023

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# Does this plugin update image location in wp_posts?

 *  [Keith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keithkhl/)
 * (@keithkhl)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-update-image-location-in-wp_posts/)
 * I have tried a number of plugins that deals with WP Media uploader, but none 
   of them actually creates folders in FTP. Guess it has to change wp_posts table,
   and it may create huge problem for some cases. But this is what I need to split
   up my chunky image folder.
 * Does this plugin actually changes physical image folder locations and url in 
   wp_posts?

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 *  Thread Starter [Keith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keithkhl/)
 * (@keithkhl)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-update-image-location-in-wp_posts/#post-17223883)
 * I’ve just tested with 500 images, and it seems like not all subset images (scaled
   images like -150×150, -300×300…) are migrated all together. Just wonder how the
   url issue is handled.
 * I want to migrate like 150,0000 images into 3 different folders to reduce file
   IO, but would be best served if al subset images are allocated to the same folder,
   and url is actually changed in wp_posts. Otherwise, dependency to MLF is unavoidable
   forever.
 *  Thread Starter [Keith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keithkhl/)
 * (@keithkhl)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-update-image-location-in-wp_posts/#post-17224027)
 * I checked DB and it seems like attachment’s url is re-written. Great plugin!
 * Guess people have hard time unwinding all migrations, but this is, I guess, why
   you have the mgmlp_folders table and the additional reset plugin.
 * Just wonder if I can remove leftover scaled images manually without any issue.
 * One other thing. This might be outside of free plugin’s support so you might 
   have to walk on the line to WP Forum’s rule, but if I buy the pro plugin, can
   I assign images to by posts’ categories?
 * Since I aggregated all subsites into one big service, I now have a folder that
   is chunky with media files from everywhere. If I can assign images for each category,
   I think I can keep the pre-aggregation image structure. Can I set a rule for 
   all future uploaded images so that images are automatically assigned to specified
   folder?
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by [Keith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keithkhl/).
 *  Plugin Author [AlanP57](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanp57/)
 * (@alanp57)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-update-image-location-in-wp_posts/#post-17224371)
 * “Does this plugin actually changes physical image folder locations and url in
   wp_posts?” Yes, the plugin will attempt to update the links when a file is renamed
   or moved. This works in most cases, but some premium themes and page builder 
   plugins may store links in a non standard format. We added code to handle such
   case in the most popular themes and page builders, but we recommend that uses
   test moving and checking files with embedded links in posts and pages before 
   moving lots of files.
 * Migrating an image and its thumbnails takes place at the same time according 
   to the list of an image’s thumbnail files stored in the database. There may be
   instances where some thumbnail sizes are no longer used either as a result of
   theme changes or updates and these thumbnail images would not be migrated to 
   the new destination. To help address issue like this, our pro version of the 
   plugin includes a maintenance feature that allows site administrators to find
   and remove orphaned media files.
 * It was not designed for moving files by category, but it might work.
 *  Plugin Author [AlanP57](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanp57/)
 * (@alanp57)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-plugin-update-image-location-in-wp_posts/#post-17224397)
 * Also, the other version includes a bulk file move function that works better 
   than the drag and drop method when moving a large number of files.

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