Comments on: WordPress 2.9….all about media! http://thewordpresschick.com/wordpress-29all-media/ WordPress tips, training and resources for everyone! Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:57:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Greg http://thewordpresschick.com/wordpress-29all-media/comment-page-1/#comment-545 Greg Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:18:50 +0000 http://thewordpresschick.com/?p=611#comment-545 What I'd like to see in this category (Media enhancements) is some sort of enhancement to enable the use of relative links. I haven't thought this through already, but here's the scenario I'd like to solve: 1. I use a plug-in like Featured Content Gallery. 2. I know that I can upload to another directory on my web server (and use the URL) but some of the stakeholders who publish content do not have this savvy. Therefore their process is: a) click the "gallery" option on a post b) upload media (but do NOT place it into the post itself) c) copy out the URL, which is a static URL such as http://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/myimage.jpg d) paste this URL into a custom field called "articleimg" So, this is all fine and dandy.. the link is valid, so the image is found and added to the featured content gallery. BUT... I decide that "mysite.com" isn't a good enough domain name and I move over to "myawesomegreatsite.com". Problem? Post content moves... it's all in the MySQL database. Pages move for the same reason. But now my slider doesn't work because it's still looking for the image at "http://mysite.com/etc". My only guess for why it's not already using some sort of relative link scheme (or template_path-based scheme) is that gallery images usually also need to be RSS-friendly. That's just a guess. Surely there's a way they can do this! Greg What I’d like to see in this category (Media enhancements) is some sort of enhancement to enable the use of relative links. I haven’t thought this through already, but here’s the scenario I’d like to solve:

1. I use a plug-in like Featured Content Gallery.
2. I know that I can upload to another directory on my web server (and use the URL) but some of the stakeholders who publish content do not have this savvy. Therefore their process is:
a) click the “gallery” option on a post
b) upload media (but do NOT place it into the post itself)
c) copy out the URL, which is a static URL such as http://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/myimage.jpg
d) paste this URL into a custom field called “articleimg”

So, this is all fine and dandy.. the link is valid, so the image is found and added to the featured content gallery.

BUT…

I decide that “mysite.com” isn’t a good enough domain name and I move over to “myawesomegreatsite.com”.

Problem? Post content moves… it’s all in the MySQL database. Pages move for the same reason. But now my slider doesn’t work because it’s still looking for the image at “http://mysite.com/etc”.

My only guess for why it’s not already using some sort of relative link scheme (or template_path-based scheme) is that gallery images usually also need to be RSS-friendly.

That’s just a guess. Surely there’s a way they can do this!

Greg

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