No way to name images in Image posts for Wootumblog
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Ive got the Fastblog theme up and running, but I have discovered a problem with the wootumblog plugin.
There is no way to name your image when you choose the “Image” tumblog option. It will post the image, but the title of the image will be “Image”, even if you use the “image name” custom field. If you don’t select any of the tumblog options and publish it as a generic post, the image name field works.
The only way I’ve found to get around this is to select the Image tumblog option, but place the image in the main body like a standard media file, and use the more tag to create an excerpt. If I use an excerpt in my post, then it pushes the image off the archives page and only posts the excerpt, whereas the tumblog plugin keeps the image on the archives page and allows me to post the excerpt below the image.
I’ve tried using all the auto excerpt plugins available, but they don’t work with wootumblog, they seem to count the html code as text and cut it part way through, only displaying busted code.
Here is an example of what I mean. Test 1 shows the post with no tumblog option selected, post 2 is using the image choice (yet is formated identical to post 1), and post 3 is my ugly workaround. My problem with the workaround is that the excerpt has to be the first part of my post instead of a summary as it should be.
Does anybody know how to alter the code for this plugin so that the image tumblog draws the image name from the proper custom field. It would be even better if Woothemes fixed it so you could name the image as you upload it, or get the plugin to draw from the media library where you can load all you stuff and give it the proper metadata.
Thanks for any help that can be offered, although it seems like support for this plugin is pretty much dead.
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