New Media Options

Let me clarify what I mean. Is there yet a way to upload media to specific “galleries” in WordPress?

Example:

Upload Media:
Default Location or Add new Gallery (location)

Another way to put this, is there anyway to tell WP to categories our uploads? There are people who have over 50, 000 images, files, etc. Are we suppose to search through those files every time we need to use one?

I know there is a plugin called “Media Categories” but that is still after the fact of an upload. You still need to find the file and assign it to a category.

I guess as a work around we could FTP files to specific directories, then link by URL when adding media.

I watched a wordpress video the other day and he said all you have to do is make a gallery page/post, In the body you put a title on the first gallery, add the images then under that, use your next title, add the images for that gallery and so on until you are done. Center it all, make sure you have galleries selected, save, then open up a new tab and see your galleries listed by your titles, it was pretty cool. I am also interested in doing this myself. Of course use low res images for faster loading.

Link please.

This isn’t the exact one but YouTube has a million

Multiple Galleries

I think you’ve misunderstood what I’m after.

Using only core WP media library functions, is there a way to create specific directories that each set of files will be uploaded into? As it is right now, if I’m understanding it correctly, when you insert anything, or create any gallery, the images are only available as one huge list of files–even though they upload by months, day, etc, if you set that option.

Put another way, there is no list of galleries with each subsequent galleries’ images, even with the ‘new’ media library functions.

I’m using NextGEN gallery right now which does do this, but it is limited in the opposite–single files are a list of all files, or some files, although it does categorize images by “gallery name, ID.” So if I use NextGEN gallery to insert one image, I either need to search through or type in each files name. The biggest limitation of the NextGEN gallery, currently, is that it does not support files other than graphic types 9not PDF, etc) so I can’t use tit to categorized files.

I think what I will do is create a directory using FTP and use that directory to like by URL to specific files I want.

It would just be nice to have a WP media library that was more useable. As it is right now, the only files I have in the media library are my header images, and that’s waste of code.

There is a plug-in that allows one to categorize all media files into specific categories, but when you first upload the images/files, you cannot assign them to a specific category. You have to manually find them, then assign the category. So if you have thousands of files, good luck with that.