{"id":27153,"date":"2024-11-14T15:24:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/news-stories\/how-to-change-media-library-upload-folder-in-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:31:43","slug":"how-to-change-media-library-upload-folder-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitizer.rs\/en\/news-stories\/how-to-change-media-library-upload-folder-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change Media library upload folder in WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1487086373501{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 140px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1582212753689{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">When it comes to website content, especially when it comes to content such as <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitizer.rs\/news-stories\/optimizacija-slika-za-web\/\"><span style=\"color: #fd6600;\">images<\/span>,<\/a> how they are managed can have a huge impact on SEO and overall site performance. The answer to the question of how to change <em>the Media library upload folder<\/em> can certainly be very helpful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>By <\/em>default, WordPress saves all media files like images, videos, and PDFs in a folder called &#8220;<em>Upload<\/em>.&#8221; You can view the image uploaded from your site using the following path:   <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">https:\/\/www.nazivsajta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/naziv-fajla-slike.jpg<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If for any reason you want to change the default folder (in this particular case, <em>the Upload<\/em><em>s<\/em> folder) to any other folder that suits you better, here&#8217;s a step-by-step guide on how to change the <em>Media library upload<\/em> folder.  <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1584648669729{padding-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Open Sans';\">How to change the Media library upload folder?<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1584648618135{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are two ways to change the Media Library upload folder to upload images and other media:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Creating a new folder in <em>the WordPress<\/em> installation on cPanel<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Creating a new folder on a subdomain outside of your <em>WordPress <\/em>installation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In our text, we will stick to the first way.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1584648675844{padding-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Creating a separate folder within the WordPress installation<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1584028915830{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ovo c\u0301e vam pomoc\u0301i i u dodatnoj sigurnosti preme\u0161tanjem svih va\u0161ih medija fajlova izvan\u00a0<em>\/wp-content<\/em>\u00a0foldera. Ovo su koraci uklju\u010deni u ovaj proces:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kreiranje novog foldera za upload-ovanje<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Izmena\u00a0<em>wp-config.php<\/em>\u00a0datoteke<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Preme\u0161tanje postojec\u0301ih medija fajlova u novi folder<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Provera i popravljanja broken link-ova<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Upload-ovanje novog medija fajla i provera njegove dozvole (permission)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Za <span style=\"color: #fd6600;\"><a style=\"color: #fd6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/digitizer.rs\/usluge\/izrada-i-dizajn-sajtova\/\">novi <em>WordPress<\/em> sajt <\/a><\/span>potrebna su samo prva dva koraka, a svi drugi koraci potrebni su za ve\u0107 postoje\u0107i sajt koji ima fajlove sa medijskim sadr\u017eajem.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1584648681723{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Creating a new folder<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1582206239899{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Assuming you want to store all of your media files in a new directory called &#8220;Pictures&#8221; for example, you must first create a folder under that name at the <em>root<\/em> of<em> your WordPress<\/em> installation. You can create a folder either using <em>FTP<\/em> or using the &#8220;<em>File Manager<\/em>&#8221; option available within <em>the cPanel of<\/em> your hosting account.   <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Log in to your hosting account and open the &#8220;<em>File Manager&#8221;<\/em> option available in <em>the Hosting&gt; cPanel&gt; File Management&gt; File Manager path.<\/em><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1582213961171{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Select the <em>root<\/em> directory where your WordPress is installed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Select &#8220;<em>Web Root (public_html\/www)<\/em>&#8221; if you installed <em>WordPress<\/em> in the <em>root<\/em> directory or select a subdirectory from the &#8220;<em>Document Root for<\/em>&#8221; drop-down menu if you installed <em>WordPress <\/em>on a subdomain or subdirectory of the main domain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By selecting <em>the New folder<\/em> option, a window opens in which we create and name a new folder in which we want to store the media content, in our case images. After specifying the name of the new folder and checking if the path on which it will be saved is good, click <em>on Create New Folder<\/em>. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1582206341333{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now within the WP installation we can see a newly created folder, in our case called <em>Pictures.<\/em><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1583833098389{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Modification of the &#8220;wp-config.php&#8221; file<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1582206391506{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The next step is to change <em>the wp-config.php <\/em>file located in your <em>root<\/em> directory (usually <em>\/public_html).<\/em> Click on the <em>Edit<\/em> icon in <em>File Manager<\/em>. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1582210327149{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Add the following lines of code to the <em>wp-config.php<\/em> file and save the changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>define( &#8216;UPLOADS&#8217;, &#8221;.&#8217; Pictures&#8217; );  <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Be sure to make sure that the quotation marks are spelled correctly (as in the example above), otherwise the changes will not be applied correctly.<\/em><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1583833105396{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Moving existing files to a new folder<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1582207059973{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">When you change the upload folder in <em>wp-config.php <\/em>all existing media (images) from the site will automatically change the URL in https:\/\/www.nazivsajta.com\/Pictures\/naziv-fajla-slike.jpg. This will result in broken links on posts and pages of the site.<em> You need to move all existing files to a new folder &#8220;Picurates&#8221; to accommodate broken links. You can do this through <em>the File Manager<\/em> by dragging and dropping all the image files from the old folder to the new one.<\/em>  <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1583833112198{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Final checks<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1582206565917{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The final step is to check if there are still <em>broken<\/em> links on the site. One way is to use one of the many tools that are offered on the Internet.   <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From now on, every new file <em>uploaded<\/em> to the site will be saved in the new folder &#8220;Pictures&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finally, <em>upload<\/em> the new image and make sure that the file path is saved in the newly created &#8220;Pictures&#8221; folder. If you see that the image was not found or a 403 error is being reported, the most likely reason may be the file permission settings of the newly created folder. To check the permissions, connect your FTP software to a server and navigate to the new <em>Pictures<\/em> folder. Right-click and select <em>the File Permissions option. <\/em> Select the appropriate permission settings and the numeric value should be 755.   <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nadamo se da vam na\u0161 tekst objasnio kako promeniti Media library upload folder. Ne brinite, nakon godina iskustva sve ovo \u0107e vam biti ma\u010diji ka\u0161alj. 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