Deborah Woehr

If you want to upload anything other than thumbnails, bypass the image uploader. Instead, use your FTP client to upload images into the wp-content folder. Then copy the URL and paste it into your post.

From there you can resize the image without sacrificing its quality. I tested this out by editing a post that gave me fits over the weekend. You can see the results by following this link. A Different Approach to Character Outlining.

I’m happy to say that this trick worked in all three of my browser applications: Firefox, Safari, and IE for the Mac. A big round of applause goes to John for discovering this loophole.

WP 2.0’s image feature is going to take some getting used to. If any of you use IE for your browser and stopped by WBA over the weekend, you would have seen that the image broke the site. It’s since been fixed, and I’ve learned a valuable lesson. Test the site in every browser. Ugh, what a pain!

The image uploading interface produces very small thumbnails, so I tried to resize it a little via the WYSIWYG. The image blurred until it was unreadable. Out of all the features of the latest version of WordPress, this is my least favorite.

I’ve just created some buttons for the WBA site (which I need to fix because they are too dark) and began the uploading process. First off, you have to set the permissions of your WP-Content file to 777. Otherwise WordPress can’t create the upload directory.

Now this is where things get interesting. The new version doesn’t have a thumbnail option for uploading images like 1.5 and the earlier versions did. Instead, it creates a thumbnail automatically.

That’s cool. It’s one less button I have to press. But, here’s the thing I don’t like–the way the image files are stored by year, and then month. I prefer the old-fashioned alphabetical list fashion.

If I need to delete files, I’ll have to wade through a bunch of folders in my CPanel to get to them. Perhaps the next version would allow us to delete unwanted image files directly from the interface. That feature is officially on my WP wish list, as of today.