Title: upload images- file names
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# upload images- file names

 *  [sean_m_flannery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sean_m_flannery/)
 * (@sean_m_flannery)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-images-file-names/)
 * I’m helping move a blog over to wordpress. Their current style is, each post 
   has a preview that includes a thumbnail and the first x lines of the post. The
   post then has all the content below the full size image. Right now, I can achieve
   this format by just generating a thumbnail manually, uploading it and then referencing
   that thumbnail in the post’s excerpt field (via the img tag).
 * Ideally, I’d like some plugin that can manage all of this automatically (generate
   an excerpt that includes a generated thumbnail), so if any one is aware of such
   a plugin, I’d appreciate some direction.
 * However, if a plugin doesn’t exist, I don’t mind manually generating thumbnails
   and the image tags, BUT WordPress makes it more difficult with its upload management
   API. Specifically, it puts everything in a shared upload directory and renames
   the files. Thus, when I want to reference the thumbnail within the excerpt filed,
   I need to figure out what WordPress upload the image as. I would like –if a plugin
   isn’t available for the whole need–to just reconfigure WordPress so it uploads
   the files of some post into the same ‘directory’ of that post, with the same 
   name. Is that possible? Does my questions make sense? Any input would be greatly
   appreciated. Take care.

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