Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#41918 closed feature request (duplicate)
Store thumbnails in separate directory
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | 4.9 |
| Component: | Media | Keywords: | |
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Description
This is an issue I find just keeps coming up for me over and over. Having the automatically resized versions of Wordpress images in the same directory is a complete pain in !@#$ and means site backups are inflated well over what they need to be.
Would it be possible to offer storing thumbnails in a different directory, say 'thumbnails' :) which would allow them to be skipped out of backups and site transfer operations?
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Welcome to WordPress Trac, @pgideonbolger, and thanks for the suggestion!
This has been brought up before in #25249 but closed due to lack of interest. The main problem with separating images into a separate directory for the purpose of only needing to retain an "original" image size is how to subsequently regenerate the resized images after the fact. WordPress doesn't have a mechanism for this currently, although there is a WP-CLI command and several plugins available which provide this functionality.
Take a look at the tickets linked in the comments on #25249 and maybe you can provide some feedback there.