Title: Problem: Cannot use multiple folders
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Problem: Cannot use multiple folders

 *  Resolved [videosc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/videosc/)
 * (@videosc)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-cannot-use-multiple-folders/)
 * Hello, I discovered a problem with the WP Original Media Path plugin, or maybe
   it is something that just cannot be done within WordPress.
 * I have dozens of photos I would like to store in specific folders. I used this
   plugin to create the first one:
 *     ```
       Upload Folder: photos/landscapes
       Full URL Path: http://mysite.com/photos/landscapes
       ```
   
 * I then wrote a post about my landscape photos and inserted them as a gallery 
   and they showed up fine. Then I changed the media upload settings as follows:
 *     ```
       Upload Folder: photos/portraits
       Full URL Path: http://mysite.com/photos/portraits
       ```
   
 * And this also worked fine for a post I wrote that included a gallery of my portrait
   photos, but when I went back to check the post I made about landscapes none of
   the photos showed up! I checked the path of these images in the Media Library
   and all of my landscape photos were now pointing to the portraits folder!
 * I checked via FTP to see if the folders and photos were all where I uploaded 
   them and they were.
 * So is it possible to have multiple folders by using this plugin? I hope the answer
   is yes because it would make it much easier to organize hundreds of images.
 * Thank you!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-original-media-path/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-original-media-path/)

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 *  Plugin Author [RVOLA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvola/)
 * (@rvola)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-cannot-use-multiple-folders/#post-4606743)
 * Hello @ videosc
    Unfortunately the plugin WP Original Media not only changes 
   the location of the folder ‘uploads’ folder wp-content.
 * WordPress then apply it legit file management within it. There are currently 
   only two possible settings:
    – ‘Organize my files sent in monthly and annual 
   records’ example ‘2014/01/’ – Or in the upload folder.
 * Your request can not be done with this plugin.
    I recommend finding a htaccess
   rule. good luck
 *  Thread Starter [videosc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/videosc/)
 * (@videosc)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-cannot-use-multiple-folders/#post-4606768)
 * Hello and thank you for the fast response! After doing some more research I found
   a solution that seems to be working. First I use your plugin to create a parent
   folder called “photos” where I want to store my images. This folder location 
   can never change or the problem I described above will occur.
 * Then I use another plugin called “Custom Upload Dir” (see link below) that creates
   a sub-folder within “photos” that will store my images. The sub-folder can be
   named with whatever taxonomy I want, which can be selected in the plugins settings
   panel. In my case I am using “categories”, so when I upload images a new sub-
   folder will be created within the “photos” folder with the same name as the category
   the post is assigned to. I now have a nice organized way of uploading and storing
   my photos!
 * The combination of your plugin and Custom Upload Dir seems to be working!
 * Thanks again!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-upload-dir/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-upload-dir/)
 *  Plugin Author [RVOLA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvola/)
 * (@rvola)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-cannot-use-multiple-folders/#post-4606773)
 * Yeah it’s cool 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [RVOLA](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvola/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-cannot-use-multiple-folders/#post-4606773)
 * Status: resolved