Media enhancements
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I have been using a wordpress blog to build a catalogue. Each item in the catalogue has its own media page with an image of the item and a description. Access to the catalogue is provided by a series of gallery pages. One set lists items by markings associated with each item. A second set lists items by type.
When I first started, I experimented with writing catalogue entries as a post about each item. I couldn’t get this to work because because the link in gallery pages defaults to the media page. In any case, switching to using the media pages for catalogue entries seemed to be a better use of the paradigm. Most of the functionality I needed was already there, and I could reserve posts for information about the development of the catalogue.
The main problem preventing wordpress from being an ideal environment for this purpose is having to hand-build the gallery pages. What is really needed to support this requirement is the ability to tag media items and to automatically generate galleries for each tag – something like what can already be done with links.
It would also be nice to have a rich editing environment for media item descriptions, including the ability to add media items to the description. I am currently adding alternative views of items to the description by uploading them unattached to the media library and using html code.
I sometimes find the need to replace an image with a better version. Currently this involves deleting the media item and re-uploading it, and any metadata or comments added to the media page is lost as well. It would be nice to have the ability to replace a media item without losing its persistent identifier, metadata or comments (eg as in Flickr Pro).
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