Title: select post preview image from sub path
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# select post preview image from sub path

 *  [mpospiech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpospiech/)
 * (@mpospiech)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/select-post-preview-image-from-sub-path/)
 * My website has a theme that uses the preview images in the post overview pages.
   However these images are neither automatically selected nor did I select an image
   in the past.
 * However, even if I try to select an image I fail because the mediathek only displays
   images that were uploaded with the mediathek.
    For example within a page that
   only shows a gallery such as this [one ](http://www.matthiaspospiech.de/blog/category/privat/photography/)
   I can not select any image for the nextgen gallery. The only images that I see
   are the ones directly within `/files`.
 * My gallery files are in the sub folder (and its subfolders)
    `/files/gallery`.
 * So how can I use gallery images for a post preview or any other image in a sub
   path?

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/select-post-preview-image-from-sub-path/)
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