Imported blogs – media management – media file dates

  • garryp

    (@garryp)


    13 years, 11 months ago

    I will try to keep this succinct.

    I imported several blogspot blogs into a single wordpress.

    I used a directory on the same server as wordpress is installed on to store the images for all these blogspot blogs.

    The imports work correctly for the most part, including images which were hard links and are still hard links on the server.

    I want to now import all the images into wordpress structure, i.e. “media upload” them into the the uploads folder and into the database.

    So far the only way I have been able to accomplish this is to ftp all media to my computer, then upload upload them using the media manager of wordpress.

    The problem:

    All the media files import into a single folder …/uploads/yyyy/mm, i.e. today’s date. The date on the media file is ignored.

    I want the files to upload into the yyyy/mm structure to allow me to more easily manage the url changeover of all the images as I waork through the new wordpress blog. Without the actual date of the original media file, location individual files to attach varies from very difficult to impossible.

    Is there a tweak that will force the media uploader to keep the file date instead of changing all of them to “now”?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    13 years, 11 months ago

    All the media files import into a single folder …/uploads/yyyy/mm, i.e. today’s date. The date on the media file is ignored.

    Aha. NOW your other post makes sense 🙂

    That’s not hat you think. The folder year/month has NOTHING to do with the date on the MEDIA file but the date on the POST. That’s all. If you upload it separately of the post, it’ll default to today, but if you went to edit the old post, it would upload it in the yyyy/mm/dd whatever folder based on the POST date.

    Does that help?

    Thread Starter garryp

    (@garryp)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    Dumb here. I am now so confused that not do not know what to ask!

    Is there a place that clearly explains all this media stuff?

    Does wp care about the yyyy/mm folders, i.e. are they tracked in the database as a path? i.e#2, can I create the yyyy/mm folders and manually load them into the uploads folder, then add to my posts using the nsert button to replace the existing non-wp links??

    Sorry for being so dense.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 11 months ago

    Does wp care about the yyyy/mm folders, i.e. are they tracked in the database as a path?

    Yes but ONLY as storage information.

    can I create the yyyy/mm folders and manually load them into the uploads folder, then add to my posts using the nsert button to replace the existing non-wp links??

    Probably but … why? That is, why does it matter, at the end of the say, WHERE the images are uploaded?

    I would go into the post you want to add the image to and upload the images. There’s no SEO loss to it, and if the only reason is ‘because it would annoy you’ then I’ll point out you’re making a simple process more complicated than it needs be 🙂 By uploading within each post, the image should get put in a folder that matches the post date, so that should be organized as much as any media is for WP 🙂

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