title: wordpress media full control over image uri/path
body: <p>For a larger amount of images (approx 1k, plus same amount of thumbs, in ca 500 folders), we have the requirement that all image URIs used on the site have to have a SEO optimized path. They are already prepared and present with the complete path structures (each folder contains a thumbs folder with the same filename with smaller size/dimensions).</p>
  
  <p>These are the URIs that we want to achieve:</p>
  
  <p>Full size Image URI: <code>http://myserver.com/img/de/cats/brown/jimmy.jpg</code></p>
  
  <p>Thumb Image URI: <code>http://myserver.com/img/de/cats/brown/thumbs/jimmy.jpg</code></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>They shall have an additional path, e.g. <strong>de/cats/brown</strong> in the examples above</li>
  <li>They should start on the root of the domain, i.e. without the <code>wp-content/uploads/</code> part of standard wordpress media files.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Simply put: we need full control over the image URIs, i.e. to have their own 'SEO-able' path structure and permalink.</p>
  
  <p>I checked out several Gallery plugins (paid and free) but could not find any documentation on them for the above requirement.</p>
  
  <p>Do you know of any plugin/theme to achieve and manage the URI structure described above?</p>