[wp-testers] Upload and use of Images

[Andy Staines]

It's a good point David but all I have to do is change the settings  
in the Upload options to get me a brand new empty folder and all the  
previous posts and image links are still just fine. I can do that  
every XX or so images with no problems. All I am saying is that I  
suspect there are a lot of users who will prefer the original method,  
especially after they have designed their working practice around it.  
And it has just completely disappeared. This is bad practice and bad  
user relations.

It's good to have new features and functionality but with most  
software this does not mean losing something completely that has  
worked well and replacing it with something that to get round I have  
to hack code for. So now I need to write a plugin AND hack the admin  
code to get this back and to ensure that ecto still puts things where  
I want them when I am on the road.

Andy




On 03:14  PM |  Sun 4 Dec 05, at 03:14  PM |  4 Dec 05, David House  
wrote:

> On 04/12/05, Andy Staines <andy at yellowswordfish.com> wrote:
>> [ANDY] What I'd like is the upload feature as per 1.5.x which worked
>> just fine for me. One folder, choice of thumbnail and gave me the
>> HTML to copy and paste. So am I going to need to write a plugin to
>> resurrect that?
>
> The point is that a flat folder structure won't work for most people.
> A lot of people will hopefully use this new feature to upload pictures
> to go with every post, or maybe every other post, or whatever. Over
> the course of a few years (tangent: what's the average lifetime of a
> WP blog?), the amount of files here would get really huge, and some
> filesystems choke when the number of files gets too big.
>
> That's why a flat folder strucutre shouldn't be in the core. However,
> you're welcome to hack/build a plugint to alter this.
>
> --
> -David House, dmhouse at gmail.com, http://xmouse.ithium.net
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