Title: thumbnail folder
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# thumbnail folder

 *  [marosell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marosell/)
 * (@marosell)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-folder/)
 * If I want to make thumbnails with the upload, how can I make those thumbnails
   go in another folder?
 * Thanks,
    marosell

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 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-folder/#post-229017)
 * Put them there?
 * Honestly. That’s the answer. You can put your graphics anywhere you want, in 
   any folder you want, whether uploading through WordPress or FTP or whatever. 
   Tell them to go into the `wp-images/thumb` folder or whatever you name it. And
   then make sure you make your links accordingly.
 * Your site’s folder system isn’t much more different than your hard drive folder
   system.
 *  Thread Starter [marosell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marosell/)
 * (@marosell)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-folder/#post-229063)
 * i want to use the upload thing in wordpress though. if I make a thumbnail when
   uploading, which folder does it go in under the miscelaneous options? Destination
   or URI?
 * Thanks,
    marosell
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-folder/#post-229064)
 * They should point to the same, just in different way – otherwise it doesn’t work:
   In the Destination field that’s the _server path_, while the URI (URL) line gives
   you… well, the URI 🙂
    Both the normal size pics and the thumbnails go to the
   same directory if you upload and, respectively, cretate them through this WP 
   feature. The thumbnail pictures will have a `thumb-` prefix.
 *  Thread Starter [marosell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marosell/)
 * (@marosell)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-folder/#post-229081)
 * is there no way to make the thumbnails go into another folder? i want to set 
   the photogallery as the upload folder so its easy to upload pictures from anywhere
   without an ftp, but the photogallery will automatically pick up on the thumbnails
   and display them as well.
 * thus, i need the thumbnails to go elsewhere (and i plan on trying to make the
   output of text [if a thumbnail is made] to give code for an href link to the 
   folder the real picture is in)
 * has anyone done this, or know where i might start if i was trying to code this
   myself? btw, this would make a good plugin *wink wink*
 * thanks
    marosell
 *  [kaat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaat/)
 * (@kaat)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-folder/#post-229088)
 * Hello, couple of thoughts …
 * – Perhaps your gallery software can be “told” to ignore thumbnails with a certain
   prefix?
 * – Here is the line from admin_functions.php at around line 251 that determines
   the destination of thumbnails. I wouldn’t really recommend it, but you could 
   modify it:
 * $thumbpath = substr($file, 0, strrpos($file, ‘/’)) . ‘/thumb-‘ . $path[count(
   $path)-1];
 * $file holds the entire path – including filename – of the large image. So what
   it’s doing here is chopping it down to just the path – no trailing slash – then
   inserting /thumb- and adding back on the large image filename.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-folder/#post-229089)
 * Or, you can always choose a gallery script that has its own upload feature…
 *  [zz85](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zz85/)
 * (@zz85)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-folder/#post-229090)
 * marosell, could photozip be what you need?
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/37913](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/37913)
 *  Thread Starter [marosell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marosell/)
 * (@marosell)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thumbnail-folder/#post-229097)
 * sure, ill try that, thanks zz85

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