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I manage several sites with 1k+ images. In my opinion tagging is a huge waste of time and nowhere near as efficient as organization by folders. I’ve been doing graphics heavy sites for 14 years now, pre and post wordpress, and have 16 years as a professional photographer doing captions and keywords for tens of thousands of images. I think this above position is a matter of fact, born out of thousands of hours of experience. If I had any doubt I would have never posted that.

Folders aside, the media manager is deficient in almost any area you can name. Everything about it is poorly designed and inefficient. I love WordPress in general, just calling it like I see it, though I realize for others it may not be such a pain.

I’m using 3.6.1 and my screen options panel has no setting for this

Try using a gallery plugin that is more suited to your needs.

That’s exactly the point. Take a brilliant gallery plugin like Global Gallery by Luca. A marvel of efficiency and UI design, and it is crippled by the horrible WP UI component. Everything is a huge pain and takes ten times longer than it should. There aren’t even file names under the useless tiny square thumbnails for god’s sake. It’s baffling, because the overall WP UI is pretty strong.

The square thumbs, generally a very bad idea in a cms backed, are a huge extra problem with premium themes, where the dev is often uploading multiple versions with different aspect ratios to use in different preset parts of the theme architecture. It’s a mind numbing waste of time when you have hundreds of images to deal with.

I don’t know how it got this way, all I know is it is almost unusable, up there with Blender in the annals of terrible UIs. And it’s not a small thing, working with media is a major task. It lacks almost everything it should have. It is so basic and so difficult to use. The way to fix it is clear and obvious.

1. (virtual) folders for organization, unlimited nesting, easy drag/drop organization and renaming w/o affecting links. This is so basic!! You can’t have a proper graphic-intensive cms without this.
2. No square thumbs, for God’s sake, thumb sizes for choosing
3. User defined # of items per page, no limit
4. Full screen insert dialog with actual thumbs
5. Much better display of file info from within dialogs, it’s awful at the moment

You didn’t get complaints because people just suffer through it and are not experts in UI enough to articulate it. I am a UI consultant, and this thing would get a 1/100 if we had to use a scale.

Thanks, it’s just a generic question. For any given WordPress blog how do I make the recent posts in the sidebar (default WP recent posts widget) link to the related post in the index.php page, scrolling the page to that post as if it were following an anchor link – instead of going to single.php for that post

thanks

sorry I didn’t mean the blogroll, just the blog main page, the feed

anyone? I need to try to get this done in the next hour or so

thanks

if design is separate from content and function then how on Earth does one need 1500 lines of css to achieve such an utterly simple design? The css has been written to account for every possible scenario and option that WP provides, and you’re stuck with all the crap regardless of what you use. Beyond that the CSS is just horribly written. I don’t know, I guess this will go nowhere.

I’m pretty literal, when I go here

https://www.ads-software.com/themes/twentytwelve

and it says – Author:wordpressdotorg, I take it at face value. Certainly seems more relevant to the issue at hand than if it said author: some guy that no one’s ever heard of.

That’s not the point, the point is the CSS and overall architecture of WP is absurdly bloated and inefficient, and I don’t see any indication that it will be improved. 1500 lines of CSS for this design? It’s insane.

2012 is authored by WP. If the inventors of this CMS need 1,500 lines of CSS (by my count) to achieve such a fundamentally simple end product something is seriously wrong with the whole kit and kaboodle.