Custom Upload Dir

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1. ★★★★★ site4sale

   3.0y ago

   Большое спасибо из России за качественный плагин.Установил на несколько сайтов.

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2. ★★★★★ rjacob999

   4.0y ago

   does the job; EXCELLENT! thanks 🙂

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3. ★★★★★ bibi699depreau

   6.3y ago

   Addressed to the author of the plugin : Hello, French, and occasional voluntary developer for associations, I discovered your plugin “custom upload dir” which I found very interesting. Like me, many French people of my generation, (soon to be in their seventies) have limited use of English. So I made a translation of the plugin which, for information, works very well with PHP 5.6.4 and WordPress 5.4 – en_FR You will find attached the plugin with the translation.

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4. ★★★★★ nhantam

   7.0y ago

   Very useful & convenient to manage images in the long run if your website posts a lot of images

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5. ★★★★★ holamediasolutions

   7.2y ago

   Dosnt work when you import export post or products

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6. ★★★★★ Jabe

   7.4y ago

   Does perfectly what it’s supposed to do. Used it for years, then it was broken after Gutenberg update, I reported it in the forum and the developer fixed it on the following day. Those options should be included by default in WordPress to really customize it.

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7. ★★★★★ Timothy

   7.9y ago

   Add this to majority of websites built as a standard plugin. Great way to control media directories, helping to avoid space-hogging duplication of re-used images. Works great with current version. Thanks!

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8. ★★★★★ hommealone

   8.4y ago

   This is a great plugin which can be very useful for those with large media libraries. It helps to sort the uploads into multiple, manageable folders with a logical and intuitive directory structure. If your site will have a large media library, the normal year/month folders created during your main site build-out period can become huge – and therefore very hard to back up. This plugin solves that problem. If you have a site in which you will often go back and edit posts and pages and CPTs, you’ll find that standard WP folder structures are misleading: media that you add to a post a year later will not be put in the folder that corresponds to the current year/month, but rather in the dated folder of when the post was originally created. It can be very hard to find files. This plugin solves that problem; you’ll never have trouble finding a file again. The plugin has a few quirks and shortcomings: You must always name and publish your post/page/CPT before you can upload files to it. This can be an issue until you get into that habit, but once you do it is not a big issue. %permalink% should not be one of the options that you can choose to use in your path structure, in my opinion. Using it breaks the WP default Draft functionality. (So I just don’t use it which avoids the issue. This may be fixed in future releases.) Documentation could be better; but it is a free plugin, after all! Plugin author is not great at updating the plugin – but that never effects the functionality. Again, give the guy a break, it’s a free plugin. So yes, a few quirks and minor shortcomings, but overall a terrific plugin.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. 2020-05-05 Version 3.4.5 added french translation (thanks, bibi699depreau!) 3.4.5
2. 2019-03-24 Version 3.4.4 Fixed a few PHP warnings Removed the %permalink% template as it broke uploads to drafts. 3.4.4
3. 2019-03-24 Version 3.4.3.2 Fixed ‘upload_dir’ not providing $post_id in Gutenberg editor. 3.4.3.2
4. 2015-03-16 Version 3.4.1 Added filter ‘cud_generate_path’ so you can easily adjust the path with any variable you want. Added %mime_type% to sort files by mime type Added %author_role% to sort files by author role. Coming: support for per-post-t 3.4.1
5. 2013-02-09 Version 3.4 Added %file_ext% to sort by file type Added tentative support for uploads from WordPress apps . Removed setting for “Base upload folder” as WP core no longer exposes this Cleared out some PHP error on the admin page Fixe 3.4
6. 2011-12-29 Version 3.3.2 Updated init to use WordPress API properly Removed dead code 3.3.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4.2

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-09-25 6K+ → 5K+ down after 777 days in tier
2. 2023-08-10 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2023-08-09 6K+ → 7K+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2023-08-08 7K+ → 6K+ down after 7 days in tier
5. 2023-08-01 6K+ → 7K+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2023-07-31 7K+ → 6K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Clean Image Filenames 30K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags B
• Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! 90K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• File Upload Types by WPForms 40K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B
• D Disable Real MIME Check 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• F Filenames to latin 9K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags D
• Media Deduper 9K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B

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