Add Media button

Recipes do not have a “content” field like posts and I don’t see any reason to include a picture or video into the description (aka excerpt) of a recipe. That’s why there is no media button.

Well, OK …

Supposing one would like to embed a connected recipe video, which I think is not a farfetched idea or add some picture of some other aspect of a recipe, like a picture of all & not necessarily individual ingredients, or additional picture of the result …?

Currently migrating recipes from an existing Drupal CMS site (recipe module) and was having the dilemma of where to place some of the content.

Would be great if there were equivalent options, but if not, then probably one just has to conform, ?? …

Thank you for the otherwise great plugin

Regards

I can understand what you try to achieve, However there are two problems:
– where should a video/gallery/… of a recipe in general be shown? Before the ingredients? At the end? For me this does not really belong to a recipe and I find it difficult to decide.
– I have only about half an hour per week time to work on the plugin. So I do the things I consider necessary and I need for my site first. As far as I understood the documentation, adding media buttons to the two editor fields of a recipe should not be two difficult and could be done in release 0.7.4. But I can’t promise to release it this year.

Just some ideas …

The Drupal CMS solution I am coming from is structured differently.
The module itself does not offer image & other media components, because Drupal CMS itself allows you to choose the media modules you prefer & allows you to add them wherever you want on a page.

So you do not have the equivalent featured image as such.
In my case, I used an image solution that allows you to place a single image or a gallery, with thumbnails below the description & above ingredients. One can however shift everything, including the location of the description (eg below image location, etc) with a few clicks.

I placed the video field at the bottom. An example of this on a Drupal site is here.
I have tried to implement this on WP & this plugin for this specific recipe here (link bound to change in near future).

In this specific one, I had to place the one pic with ingredients at step 1 … & in other cases, I have just had to say for example “These are the ingredients we shall use” & turn it into a “step” for the sake of having a pretext to place the pictures there … or if say you have a few pics of a variation of a result, etc.

A gallery like option, would allow you to place several pícs without having to say much.
In this case, if it does not fit into the structure, an option for additional pictures (if available & not necessarily ingredients, etc) could be placed below Notes & if all is too much, a text field with the Add media buttons down the page, to allow one to include some if deemed necessary.

Regarding the video, I am using the Spider Video Player module to embed code at the bottom of “Notes”, but I think that is OK, because it does not obviously appear to be part of them at the frontend & the output looks like that on the Drupal site, where the media field is separate & placed at the bottom of the page.

Feature request/suggestion:
The step images if clicked, open the image on a separate page. Is it possible that these open in a pop-up or some form of colorbox/thickbox without having to leave the page?

My 2 cents, no hurry regarding implementation where possible.

Regards

If you prefer the way drupal does handle content why don’t you use drupal?

WordPress is by philosophy very different from drupal and NOT a CMS but more of a post management software. Posts are predefinded structures for content and quite inflexible.

However it should be possible to what you reuested: I have now activated media buttons for description and notes so should be able to achieve what you want to. You can also use the editor to create another 2nd level headingf like “Gallery” between description and ingredient if you like.

To get popup images you will need a lightbox plugin. Then activate “Clickable Images” in the RPR settings and there you go.

Hi
Thank you for the response.

The problem is the specific Drupal site is being discontinued & the content merged with that of another site (WP) that has among other things an excellent web directory plugin, for which there is no similar Drupal equivalent module, etc.

I will check out the changes in plugin when you release it & I think they definitely provide more options & flexibility. I have tried all possible WP recipe plugins & think this is the best for my needs.

A lightbox plugin solved the requested feature issue.

Many thanks for your support ??

The “Add media” buttons in 0.7.3 help make it much more flexible for adding images & other media.

Thank you! ??