[wp-hackers] Time to upgrade WordPress Media?

[John]

Related: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17255


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Eric Hendrix <hendronix at gmail.com> wrote:

> I completely agree having built mostly media-heavy sites the past couple
> of years. And there's no plugin that I can remember.
>
> —
> Sent from Mailbox for iPhone
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Funkatron <funkatronic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Was thinking about this the past few days: currently any media files
> > uploaded to a WordPress site defaults to the post status of `inherit`,
> > which is a holdover to when media attachments were just that.  Media was
> > attached to a certain post, so it inherited the post's status.  We are
> > starting to get away from attaching media directly to posts now and are
> > even making them post like by allowing meta boxes and taxonomies in
> recent
> > versions of WP.  I think a next logical step is to give media post
> statuses
> > other than `inherit`.  I can think of a number of cases where making an
> > image or file private could be useful, among other things.
> > _______________________________________________
> > wp-hackers mailing list
> > wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
> _______________________________________________
> wp-hackers mailing list
> wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
>