Title: Image storage  file system or database
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Image storage file system or database

 *  [webdevST](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fixxinet/)
 * (@fixxinet)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-storage-file-system-or-database/)
 * Does wordpress store by default images in database or file system,
 * I want to store in the file system.

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 *  [michael.mariart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmariart/)
 * (@michaelmariart)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-storage-file-system-or-database/#post-3196087)
 * WordPress stores images in the file system and stores the meta information about
   the image in the database. WordPress (the core code anyway) never stores image
   files in the database.

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 * Last reply from: [michael.mariart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelmariart/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-storage-file-system-or-database/#post-3196087)
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