As side-product to my commercial or open source work, i often create prototypes. The WordPress plugin Inline Mediaupload is the elaborated result of a feasability study for the next generation of my plugin Yet-Another-Photoblog (YAPB). In this study i verified that the new WordPress 3.3 Media Upload Feature may be directly integrated into the normal post/page edit form.
WordPress Media Upload has grown mature
The WordPress Media Upload has grown up: Since version 3.3 there is only one button left on the edit form – A big usability plus. Additionally, the lightbox/iframe integration now supports drag&drop uploads with modern browsers (firefox, chrome) and an acceptable multiple file upload for the rest of the browser-bunch.
One step forward
One of my intentions for YAPB was to make the fileupload as easy as can be. For a photoblog, the image upload was the most important thing just after entering the title. So i introduced a new file-upload meta-box just below the title on post/page add/edit forms. Over the years, I got a lot of positive feedback regarding this feature and i planned to keep with this with the next generation of the plugin, which will probably use the native WordPress fileupload-feature so everything becomes much more standardized.
WordPress Inline Mediaupload
Inline Mediaupload also introduces a new meta-box on post/page forms which directly contains the media-upload.php iframe otherwise only reachable via button/lightbox:
The iframe automatically resizes smoothly with its inner content thus hiding the iframe-nature of the content.
Additionally, the plugin introduces a new meta-box area to the forms allowing you to move any meta-box just below the title input field – that’s just my personal favorite location for placing the new upload-box ;-)
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If you like this plugin and want to honor the time I spent in creating/elaborating/updating it since December 2011 – Feel free to donate a small ammount via Paypal!
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