I can’t seem to find a good solution to keep all of the old links (directory
structure) while maintaining full featured attachments in wordpress.
WordPress attachments seem to like to be in a subdirectory of the wordpress
root. Unfortunately, it would be nice to have the root in a subdirectory
of the web root (for clealiness), so I don’t want the two roots to coincide
(would end up more cluttered than it already is, with a bunch of wp files).
What would be ideal is the ability to put just the uploads in the root
directory and have wp somewhere else (but again, this wasn’t working entirely,
after several attempts).
I thought that the attachments would work fine if they were using absolute
paths, but this only partially worked. Some of the url grabbing for the
attachments was not using the GUID (which may be a deprecated feature), and
were instead just replacing the upload directory from the file uri to
get the web url. This obviously wasn’t working properly. The solution is
to then instead copy over most of the content to wordpress’s content directory.
This allows me to have some control over the directory structure (with
the add_from_server plugin, which allows adding media files from the
web serverr, which again only really worked with content nested in the uploads
directory). To maintain a fully workable previous version of the site, without
having two full copies of the content, I decided to keep as much old content
in the web root and move over everything from the old site into wordpresses
content directory. The old-site will then be fully operational from the WP
content directory (without rewriting any links). If it is ever desired to move
the old php stuff into a subdir, links will have to be reprocessed.
Stuff in the main directory that is probably going to stay:
- iphoneads
- yum
Stuff that should be mirrored (maybe, at least until the few people that have bookmarks have updated them):
- jshape (with warnings in root).
- images
- movies
- source
- glacier
Everything will be moved/deleted. There shouldn’t be many dead links, but there may be a couple.
