[wp-testers] Upload and use of Images

[Austin Matzko]

On 12/3/05, Andy Staines <andy at yellowswordfish.com> wrote:
> I really dislike the new image upload features because:
>
> (A) I don't want my folder structure imposed on me like this - I want choice
> (B) I want the choice as to whether I want thumbnails or not - and I don't
> (C) If I don't use rich text editing then dragging an image into the post area does not give me HTML tags
> (D) In Safari/Omniweb I can't change the options on the uploaded image
> (E) If I CAN change the options I want to use a class from my CSS for formatting so still have to manually edit
> (F) If I accept the OTT folder structure then how are tools like Ecto going to work that currently look for a single image location?
>
> Can't this feature be another +/- option and retain the single image
> location for us that currently prefer that?

The uploading change has been the main reason I haven't yet upgraded
my blog to 2.0, so I wrote a plugin that restores the old uploading
tab and features, basically just incorporating the old code from the
core: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/old-style-upload/