Multiple Images

[rrgeorge]

I believe it would be better practice for the app to insert the [gallery] shortcode when more than one image is attached to a post, rather than adding all of the (medium sized?) images onto the end of the post.

[geohar]

I have a diff for this, which adds an option to the GUI and also only adds [gallery] tags. However, it looks a bit awkward via the xmlrpc to attach a post to another. Is it possible to add a parent_post_id to the api so that this would work (images will currently be uploaded but are attached to postId -1 not the current new post)

[geohar]

I've attached a diff which will work... it relies on hiding image urls in a invisible diff. This is only needed as the xmlrpc won't attach images unless the URL appears in the text. It's likely this is to work around the defficiency of post id -1 being used as a pending attachment status - instead of the images being directly attached to the post using the API.

Anyways, this should allow the user to switch the style to a gallery rather than a direct inline image set. Ideally the invisible div would be edited back out so the user never sees it. Better yet, and xmlrpc change could make it a lot more slick

[raanan]

did this make it into 1.2 trunk yet ?

[raanan]

we need to investigate this further

[Tetanus]

I second this: ​http://atinyblip.com/2009/02/24/test-image-post/

[raanan]

I'd like to see if we can get this into 1.4.

@ganeshr -- what did your investigation reveal way back when ? :)

[raanan]

@ganeshr - are you still working on this ?

[frsh]

Closing for now. May look into something like this in the future.