{"id":1119,"date":"2019-08-15T13:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T05:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2019-08-15T13:56:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T05:56:22","slug":"define-upload-path-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelliwolf.com\/define-upload-path-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Define the Upload Path in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most of the time, you don't have to worry about the upload path in WordPress. It's just handled automatically with a fallback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A plugin on a site I was working on had a problem with <em>wp_upload_dir()<\/em>, which is supposed to fetch the location of the uploads. It resulted in the error you see in the picture above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Error: Your upload path is not valid or does not exist: C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\abf\/C:\/xampp\/htdocs\/abf\/wp-content\/uploads<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, the solution was very simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to define the upload path in WordPress<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Open <em>wp_config.php<\/em> in your preferred text editor<\/li><li>Add this line below the WP_DEBUG line:<br>define('UPLOADS', 'wp-content\/uploads');<\/li><li>Save <em>wp_config.php<\/em><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a custom upload folder, change <em>'wp-content\/uploads'<\/em> to that location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also use this function to set a custom directory for uploading your images and other WordPress media files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time, you don&#8217;t have to worry about the upload path in WordPress. 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