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How I Organize Blog Post Image Files

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Updated on 2026-09-02

If you don’t organize your blog post image files correctly, managing them can become tedious and time consuming. When I began blogging, I had the foresight to name my image files in a manner that enables me to know to which post they belong. With a bit of fine tuning over time, following is the format I currently use to name my image files:

YYYY-###-##_post-title_image–title_###x###.ext

where:

YYYY-### is the calendar year and blog post number
-## is the post image number
###x### is the image resolution (e.g. 640x460)
ext is the image file format; jpg or png (usually jpg)

All of my post header image files (image at the top of a post) get a post image number of 00 and an image title of post-header:

Save Space When Storing Image Files on Your WordPress Hosting Service Account

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Updated on 2026-09-11

1 - Introduction

When I began blogging back in 2018, I came up with the idea of storing my blog post images on the Postimages site in an effort to save space on my WordPress hosting account. Storing my blog post images on PostImage seemed to work for awhile.

However, on November 15, 2020 the Postimage site went down for at least 14 hours, meaning that the majority of my post images didn’t display since most of my post images were stored on that site. It’s quite possible that the site being down has happened before and I just didn’t know about it. Images are an important part of my posts, so it’s important that they always be available. Therefore, I decided to begin storing all of my images on my WordPress hosting account.

WordPress: Use Image URLs to Save Space on Your Hosting Account

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Updated on 2026-09-20

01 - Introduction

I recently took an online introductory WordPress course in preparation for starting my blog. In a lecture on optimizing images, the instructor recommended storing images of a certain resolution and file size. Otherwise, you risk quickly fill up your hosting space.

The first thought that came to mind was, can you store images elsewhere and use links to point to those images? I learned about using the technique through my frequent use of Linux forums. I learned about a site called Postimages from a Linux forum I used to frequent. Postimages is what I have used to store images for forum posts, utilizing forum thumbnail links. Couldn’t you use a similar technique to show images in WordPress?