Move Your wp-content Area
Posted on 21. Nov, 2009 by Alex Denning in Quick Tips
Just a quick tip today, but a favourite of mine. Moving your wp-content area. Why would you want to do this? It looks just that bit nicer to have your images uploaded to /media/ than /wp-content/. In this post we’ll learn how to tell WordPress to upload images and other media to /media/.
Really easy this. Click on ‘Miscellaneous’ under ‘Settings’ and then you’ll be presented with a screen looking something like this:
Changing the upload directory is as easy as changing the top field to anything you like – ‘media’ will upload images to yoursite.com/media, ‘images’ will upload images to yoursite.com/images. It’s a really simple to do and look just that much better. I think anyway.
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Alex Denning is the founder of WPShout. A WordPress developer from London, Alex co-founded WPShift at the start of 2010 where he sells awesome WordPress themes.
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Thomas Scholz
21. Nov, 2009
It is even better to move all those files to a subdomain to allow your visitor’s browser more parallel HTTP requests.
If the local directory of your subdomain is /www/htdocs/username/_subdomain_files/ write this path into the first field and the public address (eg. http://files.example.com/) into the second.
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Indrek
21. Nov, 2009
Thanks Alex for this tip. Hadn’t even thought about changing it. The source would definitely look much nicer with “media” or something like that.
@Thomas: that’s a good point. And although some might not agree with this method because is reduces the number of DNS lookups, this method really works.
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Alex Denning
22. Nov, 2009
It’s debatable whether this actually has any effect, but theoretically it’s a good idea. Even better would be to employ Amazon S3, something I’m looking at at the mo.
Kel
22. Nov, 2009
Useful tip, thanks – but be aware there are still a number of rogue plugins that expect a path similar to “mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/”, so altering your wp-content path might break some plugins. Check your site to make sure.
Alex Denning
22. Nov, 2009
No. We’re only moving uploads, not the whole wp-content folder. If you wanted to move the whole folder, you’d have to edit the wp-config.php file.
Liew Cheon Fong
24. Nov, 2009
good for new blogs but for existing blogs, you will need to do redirect with mod_rewrite
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Alex Denning
24. Nov, 2009
It won’t move anything, only stuff you upload from change onwards.