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   benz001
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   I love this plugin, but unless I'm missing something, on every blog I've set up I've had to remove it as I can't edit the post content or excerpt reliably after uploading.

   You see I'm not really after a Photoblog, its just that every post starts life as an image - so your workflow for uploading images and auto creating a post is PERFECT.

   But then I want to go into the post, edit the excerpt, change the content, re-use the images through the media library and I can't figure out how to do this with PhotoQ.

   Frequently I add in PhotoQ, upload 20 images, de-activate it and get on with life, the workflow is that good. But that still leaves my media library empty.

   If you forked off another plugin that used your UI and post creation hook to rapidly upload images to the media library it would be absolutely f'ing brilliant, and no doubt become part of wordpress 2.9 core.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   whoismanu
   Key Master

   hi thanks a lot for your comment.

   editing posted photos is possible but i agree that it is right now the quirkiest feature there is in photoq. i am not happy with it myself and therefore i am currently working on improving this.
   currently if you want to edit the description of a photo you can do this in the editing box of the content if you "inlined" the description in your photoq settings. if you don't inline you need to edit the photoQDescr custom field. what you cannot edit right now is the excerpt.

   the reason for this behavior is that as you pointed out, photoq is geared towards photoblogs. further, it assumes that users want their blog future-proof in the sense that if the user changes e.g. the dimensions of a photo in the settings, this change should automatically propagate through the whole blog, including already posted photos. in order to be able to update posted photos, photoq needs to know about the format of photo posts and it therefore tries to enforce the following format: the_content = main photo (+ description if inlined), the_excerpt = thumbnail, photoQDescr custom field = description.

   now, i realize that some people are not happy with this - you are not the first one - and that different users use photoq in different ways. so i guess i have to come up with an alternative way of handling this or at least give the user the option to "free" posted photos from photoq.

   about the media library, i also had a few comments lately that go in the same direction as yours. so this is also something to be examined.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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