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WordPress Upload Plugin Needed
110 months ago
I’ve been trying to upload a file to my photography blog and have hit a bump. WordPress, by default, will only allow media files to be uploaded with its default tools. That’s great and all, but what about ZIP files or RAW Camera files or Word docs?
I’ve spent several hours looking for and trying various “uploader” plugins and not one of them do what I want.
What I’m after is a way (either from the dashboard or from the post creation page) to upload a file – of any type, as long as it’s under the PHP file size limits – to my site and then be able to create a link in the post to that file. That’s it. I truly don’t care where it’s stored on the server as long as the link is appropriate. It would be nice if it followed the same file structure guidelines as the media uploader does, but it really doesn’t matter.
Yes, I know I can fall back and use FTP or some other method to get the files on the server (especially since I own and control the server). But it just seems that this should be easier – and built-in.
Why do things have to be so difficult?
UPDATE: Looks like the built-in media uploader of WordPress will in fact let you upload ZIP files. So I guess my problem is solved – I’ll just zip up the files I want to link to and be done with it. Sorry for the rant, and thanks WordPress for including this.
Zemanta – Trying it as well
4Brian Ochs responded to my post on Evernote. This prompted me to look at his Twitter page, where I came across a tweet where he asked if anyone was using Zemanta. Well I wasn’t at the time, but I have installed the WordPress plugin to try it out.
- Image via CrunchBase
One of the features that I like about it is the ability to add pictures to a post based on its content. I’ve always wanted to do that easily, but never have done so because it required the extra work of saving, cropping, uploading, etc. With this is simply a matter of pulling related images froom a group and placing them in my post. Just like the Zemanta image in this post.
I’ll try it for a couple of weeks and see how things go.
Changes
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So I’ve updated this blog to WordPress 3.0. I’ve even installed the default theme because it seems to work well. I’ll be tweaking for the next several days, so forgive any mess you may see around here.
I like the new abilities of this theme (maybe WordPress 3.0 period). Being able to create Menus, set custom backgrounds and header images – without touching a line of code – very nice.
Oh, and I’ve started to use Flickr again – since I’ve been taking a lot of pictures lately. I’ll be tweaking that functionality as well in the coming days.
Blog Entry tied to a Tweet
01 year ago
by Kevin
in The Internet
This is my first post after I installed “Twitter Tools“. I’m just testing functionality.