Multiple issues with Media Gallery

  • I like a lot of things about the new media library, especially multiple uploads and search ability. However, now that I’ve started trying to actually use it, I’m becoming frustrated quickly.

    1) I have 300 or so images that I uploaded back under 2.3; the media library sees these, but has them all mashed into one gallery, and I can’t find any way to manage the images to separate them into appropriate galleries. Am I right that I can’t do that? I’ve uploaded single images since then, and they’re just added into the same huge gallery as well. Will it only create new galleries if I upload multiple images at one time, and if so, is there any way to upload multiple images from different folders on my computer?

    2) When I choose the thumbnail option, it’s creating a square thumbnail by cropping off the top and bottom of my images (which are landscape-shaped). This is NOT COOL. I’m not good at php, but I looked through the wp-includes/media.php file, and the only thing I can see about cropping says that crop is set to false. But it’s cropping, so I’m missing something somewhere. It used to just create smaller, very nice versions in the same aspect ratio as the original, and I want it to keep doing that! My favorite thing about WP’s upload option was that it created perfect thumbnails for what I needed without my having to run everything through PhotoShop first, and I’ll be very disappointed if it won’t still do that.

    (example here: blog. The <i>Waiting for Guffman</i> poster in the second row is the new thumbnail, uploaded just now; the others are the old thumbnails, uploaded in version 2.3.)

    Okay, I guess it was really just two issues. Anyone know how to make the media library behave? What do I need to change in the media.php file to make the thumbnails work the way they used to?

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  • @boldizar:
    for my site: https://collectorsedition.org I have A LOT of pictures in my posts… typically I insert the images with no alignment option (under the gallery browser I select “none” under alignment)

    Then once it’s in the post I center it with the justification options in the WYSIWYG editor.

    If I have more than one image or thumbnail per line I’ll view the post in HTML mode and insert a single space between each of the images, the editor interface always screw this up which is why I do it in HTML mode… I’m usually pretty happy with the results.

    Checking through the post in HTML mode is good practice where formatting is key because it does some wonky shat sometimes..

    I don’t use the descriptive image text, I upload far too many pictures to write descriptions for all of them, and it doesn’t really bode well with the theme of my site.

    I’m not 100% sure what you mean by “leaving a nearly full line of empty space” but hopefully what I’ve posted about my own process will help you out.

    Thanks, twistedsymphony! It seems you found the same workaround that I did — if you have several images side by side, make sure they’re of equal size.

    I write in both magazines and newspapers, with different page sizes, and wanted to keep to the original proportions, but that was messing the alignment — I wanted four images per line, and if a middle image stuck out or was taller by a few pixels, it left a big blank space to the left. I “solved” the problem by making each image-with-caption identical in height.

    It’s not my ideal solution, since I WOULD like to keep the images in different sizes (fiddling in html mode does help sometimes, but not others), but it’s a good workaround.

    Hi,
    I use nextgen gallery for images because it is great …

    But I use the inbuilt media gallery for video and sound files. the only prob is that you can’t sort video and sound into galleries like you can in nextgen.

    My questions are :

    1. what do you guys do
    2. is there a good media gallery plugin similar to nextgengallery?
    3. do you know if nextgen are bringing out video sound file upload support for the gallery?

    thank you for your time

    j

    My issue is similar in nature…I’m trying to create a thumbnail archive and am noticing that while thumbnails exist in the upload directory for older posts…the Get the Image plugin can’t “grab” them.

    (I also used a “wp_get_attachment_image” technique, and it failed as well.)

    Additionally useful (?) info is that of 187 posts, only 71 (the most “current”) show up in the Media Library.

    I get that the older posts weren’t created with the new media uploader, but that doesn’t explain why I can’t grab my thumbnails! Any ideas on how to work around this?

    You can check out what I’m talking about here >>
    https://ginger-snaps.us/2008/12/

    December is the first month (working backwards…technically July 2008 is the “first month”) that I start having issues, and you’ll notice that the missing thumbnail at the bottom is replaced with a minuscule dot. SO! FRUSTRATING!

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