Title: Image Uploads
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Image Uploads

 *  [migthegreek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/migthegreek/)
 * (@migthegreek)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-uploads/)
 * I already had a basic blog I had made myself. I am now in the process of re-posting
   my last 10 months-worth of posts into WordPress, and changing the date(!!)
 * Anyway, I want to use all the images I already had in those posts, but the upload
   system seems a bit of a pain in the ass. I would rather manage the images and
   other media myself in my own folder system. So my question is if I just link 
   to my images in a content folder within my wordpress directory, will that suffice?
   Will there be any problems if I don’t give an absolute, full URL? With relative
   URLs to those images, I am worried that when my posts are seen elsewhere or from
   different pages it may not find the image path properly.
 * Should I always use a full URL path?

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 *  Thread Starter [migthegreek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/migthegreek/)
 * (@migthegreek)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-uploads/#post-519042)
 * If this needs to be simplified, I just meant is it ok to put relative links to
   images on my site that aren’t in the database?
 * I don’t want to put images through the upload.
 *  [Kalli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kalli/)
 * (@kalli)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-uploads/#post-519337)
 * You don’t have to upload the image through WordPress to be able to display it
   in a blog post, if that’s what you’re asking. You can simply use HTML to display
   your pictures.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Kalli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kalli/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-uploads/#post-519337)
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