I’ve been asked to bring an OtoberCMS site into WordPress so that the client can self-maintain going forward. I know. WP is not the most efficient, but the client is able to maintain it much easier.

The images are in a nested directory and many have duplicate names (ie thumb__700_400_0_0_crop.jpg).

As an example, a sampling of current directories look like:

• public_html
• storage
  • app
  • media
  • file001.pdf
  • file002.pdf
  • file003.pdf
  • partner-images
    • file001.png
    • file002.png
    • file003.png
  • site-images
    • file001.png
    • file002.png
    • file003.png
  • Team Member Photos
    • file001.png
    • file002.png
    • file003.png
    • cropped-images
      • file001-100-352-1412-GABELDEEGOOK.png
      • file002-127-495-1320-GABELDEEGOOK.png
      • file003-201-376-2253-GABELDEEGOOK.png
  • temp-image
    • file001.png
  • Videos
    • file001.mp4
    • file002.mp4
  • uploads
  • public
  • 0a0
    – e22
    • bc6
    • thumb__200_200_0_0_crop.jpg
    • thumb__400_400_0_0_crop.jpg
  • 0ba
    – 578
    • e83
    • thumb__500_276_0_0_crop.png
  • 2e0
    – c2b
    • 661
    • thumb__700_0_0_0_auto.jpg
    • thumb__1920_1080_0_0_crop.jpg
      – f8d
      -7b0
    • thumb__200_200_0_0_crop.png
    • thumb__400_400_0_0_crop.png
  • 4be
    – 0da
    • e37
    • thumb__500_276_0_0_crop.jpg

There are nearly 100 folders (plus subfolders) in the ./app/uploads/public/ directory and 480+ folders in the ./storage/temp/public/ directory. I found a way to flatten the directory, but I’d like to be able to keep them from being overwritten, perhaps by using the file structure to create a unique name (ie 0a0-e22-bc6-thumb__200_200_0_0_crop.jpg). I may never use any of these thumbs, but I don’t want to lose them in case one becomes important.

In addition to this nested issue, the original images used to create all the thumbnails look to be in:

• public_html/themes/theme_name/assets/
  – img
  – filename001.png
  – filename002.png
  – etc
  – pdfs
  – filename004.pdf
  – filename005.pdf
  – videos
  – filename005.mp4
  – filename006.mp4

Frustratingly, not every video or pdf from the ./storage/app/media/ or ./storage/app/uploads/ directories has a match in this assets folder, so I can’t trust that there aren’t images, pdfs, or videos that I’ll need from the ../storage/app/media/ directories. I want to keep the current names of the originals, but I may never need the thumbs from the app/media/ or app/uploads/.

Is there another way for me to approach this that would be smarter? Or should I flatten-around-and-figure-it-out?

Thanks!

Looking for insight as to whether I’ve picked a good approach.