[wp-testers] Upload and use of Images

[Andy Staines]

Ronald - yes that's been one of my arguments - that this swings WP  
too far in the direction for those that want it all easy. From one  
end to the other... If  you read back through this thread then we are  
being told basically to write a plugin.
Andy


On 11:52  AM |  Tue 6 Dec 05, at 11:52  AM |  6 Dec 05, Ronald Ashri  
wrote:

> I've missed a lot of this discussion and may be mentioning  
> something that
> has already been said but it seems to me that there are two camps.
>
> users who want subposts and image insertion - but no TinyMCE  
> interference
> and users who are happy to use TinyMCE and any GUI options there  
> are to make
> their life easy.
>
> Now, the later are catered for but the former are not. All I want  
> is to
> click a button and have a subpost with the image and its  
> description and the
> piece of code to insert in my post so that the image is displayed.  
> What I
> then do with that piece of code is up to me.
>
> How hard would it be to have such a button...?
>
> All the best,
>
> Ronald
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:wp-testers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Andy  
> Staines
> Sent: 06 December 2005 12:42
> To: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Upload and use of Images
>
> Thanks Owen/David
>
> It was pretty obvious but it was late and I was tired!
>
> One issue I raised was using TinyMCE, dragging and dropping an image
> and then having to edit the result to insert a CSS class.
> Your response was that I have to do that now in 1.5 - which is true.
>
> The difference is that with 2, I now have to add a further step of
> opening up the HTML window to make the edit. This is just another
> area where the use of the editor really saves nothing and complicates
> further.
>
> The image alignment options are not really that useful for many
> people who want to float them.
>
> Andy
>
>
>
>
> On 09:34  AM |  Tue 6 Dec 05, at 09:34  AM |  6 Dec 05, David House
> wrote:
>
>> On 06/12/05, Owen Winkler <ringmaster at midnightcircus.com> wrote:
>>> wp_upload_dir() prepends ABSPATH to the path, so you'll have to
>>> use just:
>>>
>>> define('UPLOADS', 'wp-content/images');
>>
>> Yeah, I did check this, but ended up checking the cache code. Sorry
>> about the confusion.
>>
>> --
>> -David House, dmhouse at gmail.com, http://xmouse.ithium.net
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