Image or Video Blog Entries: Content Type vs. Post Attachments
September 11th, 2009 by sissT
Background
WordPress – as most other “Blog” applications – handles media (images and video) content as “Attachments”. You write a Post and you attach an image using ‘Add Media’. The system does all the magic, scales the image in 3 sizes, allows multiple images per post. You even can add those multiple images as a gallery to a post…
Criticism
The approach in its current form is not working for me as Writer, Blogger, Publisher. Images are Posts not Attachments. I want to post an Image, not a Post. An Image is as differnet to a Post as a Page is to a Post (‘WordPress universe’ wording). Images have specific particular features, in both back (administration) and front-end (themes) aspects. The ‘advanced’ user needs more control in templates and template tags.
I am an Information Architect not a coder (developer), but this is how I see it: In a OOP metaphor an Image is a Post with specific ‘extensions’. If I would define a Post as a Class, an Image would be a Post Sub-Class. It would inherit all template tags while adding a few pieces of magic.
The Image ‘content type’
This is what I imagine would be possible without reinventing the (WordPress-) wheel…