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By default, media uploaded through the Wordpress dashboard goes into a folder determined by the current date. For example: /wp-content/uploads/2011/09/. Once the media is uploaded I'm not seeing any options in Wordpress to change the location of my file to something else. Can I tell Wordpress to place my media in a separate folder? Not all my media. Just ones that I specifically select. |
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This will specify the global upload location. To specify a per-file upload location, you'll need to use a Plugin, such as WP Easy Uploader (not an endorsement, per se; it was just the first one I found). |
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I would advise against un-ticking 'Organize Media' unless in a situation where you are handling storage elsewhere. Having a large amount of files in one directory is flawed for many reasons, though there is some situations where this is unavoidable but for a website this is always unavoidable. I inherited a Wordpress website and was tasked with moving it to another host. This proved to be a problem since all uploads were in one folder, over 93,000 files - yes 93 thousand. No FTP client was able to index that many files and simply would not navigate into the folder. I had no shell access to the system. I couldn't do a full dump using the hosting control panel as there was no option to do so. I had to rely on the hosting company to do a dump for me, which was a task in itself tying to get them to do it. Apart from these potential issues, indexing thousands of files is slower than indexing tens or hundreds of files - simply, performance is effected with large amounts of files in one directory. |
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Just use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/ Nextgen Gallery. You can upload groups of images there, use it to display galleries, or upload a single image from there in the WP image insert window. |
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