schikowski

Update: I found a workaround by uploading an image as a featured image. This will put it into the accurate, older folder.

It doesn’t solve the mystery though.

Here’s what I found so far:

When media is uploaded to a post, the upload directory is set according to the date of the post, so that the media URLs in the post match when the post was published. – Link 1

The issue I’ve found here is that if you go into a content type (e.g posts / custom post type) and select a featured image and upload a new image, it’s file name will use the year/month of the post type content and not todays date. e.g if you edit an old article from 2017/12, the media attached will have it’s path changed to use the 2017/12 directory. – Link 2

I thought it was strange that it only happened on pages, while posts were still putting images in the post date folder. – Link 3

When I uploaded an image to a post published several years ago, it went into the uploads folder corresponding to the month/year that the post was published. – Link 4

Looking at all the above, while this seems to have changed for pages (see link 1), it seems that uploading an image when editing an older post, the image is indeed supposed to go into the corresponding old folder.

I’m curious if others can confirm this.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by schikowski. Reason: formatting

That’s great news Stefan! Looking forward to that. I’ll build it in and replace it with the 2.2.0 release once it’s ready. Cheers!