[wp-testers] Re: wp-testers Digest, Vol 11, Issue 4

[Neil Mickelson]

Long-time lurker, first-time poster.

With all due respect to Stefano, and with thanks to Dave for the quick 
diff, I really think that all three options should be implemented. I'm 
one of those people that stores my uploads outside of my WP tree -- 
mostly so they aren't accidentally over-written by a WP upgrade or the 
like. This is a habit I've developed with other open-source systems 
(like phpBB) as a safety measure.

Why not do the implementation with a client-side Javascript that 
calculates the URI? If the download folder is within wp-content, the 
proper URI could be calculated, inserted into the field, and the field 
disabled (perhaps with some kind of message below the field noting why 
it's disabled). If the download folder is outside wp-content, the field 
wouldn't be calculated and the field would be active.

I'd implement this myself, but I'm not much of a PHP hacker...in fact, I 
stink. :-)

Again, thanks to the WP team for all the hard work, and for being 
responsive to suggestions like the upload options change. (For what it's 
worth, I use WP as a light-weight CMS for a community service group, and 
the month/day upload folders don't make much sense in that 
context...especially for our multiple authors!)

> Subject:
> Re: [wp-testers] Revision #3389
> From:
> Stefano <steagl at people.it>
> Date:
> Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:33:10 +0100
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>Il Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:39:57 -0800, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> scrive:
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>>>be example.com/wp-content/bob. No point giving them the extra
>>>flexibility of having it at example.com/my-great-images when it won't
>>>be used (and that third option is bound to confuse).
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>>If the upload dir is outside the WP tree, we can't reliably derive the
>>URI.  That's why 1.5 had that the upload URI option.  I'm fine with
>>restricting the directory to being within the WP tree.
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>I think this could be a good compromise between new and old method,
>someone will argu that he's used to have images in an outside
>directory, but you can't make everybody happy, but a good percentage
>will be :)
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> Subject:
> Re: [wp-testers] Revision #3389
> From:
> David House <dmhouse at gmail.com>
> Date:
> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:37:38 +0000
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>On 02/01/06, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
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>>We might resurrect the old upload options in Options->Misc.  We know how
>>much everyone loves options.  ;-)
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>Try the patch at
>http://trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2206/2206.diff. The option
>went in Options -> Writing, but... sue me :)
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>--
>-David House, dmhouse at gmail.com, http://xmouse.ithium.net
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