After been using Contao for almost three years now I find it a pleasure to work with. It's not perfect, but it's getting better and better with each update. I have not found a better solution.
But, one things is bothering me, and that is the organization of images in the file manager.
A typical scenario:
You build a site for a company. Set up a few news archives, a banner on the front page, a calendar etc. To organize the images you create some folders in the file manager; "news", "blog", "calendar", "banner", "advertising", "people" etc.
Everything is nice and clean with several folders where the clients will store the pictures. And this is good, until a year has gone, and the folders are FULL with pictures.
Now it's not that simple anymore to handle the images, even though you created some nice folders in the beginning. When uploading and choosing an image for a blog post, there is maybe 100+ images in the list, and it's getting more and more problematic finding the right image... :?
Sure, it would be nice to rearrange the folders to set up a different structure with subfolders etc. But that would be no easy task, since moving files on the server will cause the images not show up in frontend because the URL has changed.
From this I have two questions:
1.
Maybe Contao would change the way images and files are organized? Maybe the Wordpress style where images are stored in folders by date? Or a database driven solution where each uploaded image gets an ID, and can be moved freely?
2.
How do you organize uploaded images today? Do you have some good tips organizing the folders in the file manager to make things easier to handle a large amount of images and files? Any suggestions are welcome. Please share your approach to this. :D
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