[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15127: Media management improvements sorely needed...

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#15127: Media management improvements sorely needed...
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 Reporter:  ben_allison  |       Owner:                           
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review          
Component:  Media        |     Version:  3.1                      
 Severity:  major        |    Keywords:  media library, management
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 The one gaping hole in WP is proper media management, and getting it up to
 snuff wouldn't even require anything complicated. I propose a very modest
 update to this section, that would drastically improve it's functionality.

 1) Organization. Add the ability to establish custom hierarchies within
 the uploads folder (essentially, designate sub-folders, sub-sub-folders,
 etc). The contents of these subfolders would be accesible via shortcode:
 (ex, media_folder('holiday') could return a list of links for all items
 within the subfolder to the loop). Items that appear in the Media popup
 would simply appear in an accordion list, filtered by folder/subfolder, or
 possibly a Mac OSX-style column view.

 2) Gallery creation. An "insert gallery" tab would be added to the in-post
 media panel, and a "galleries" item would appear within the Media nav
 item. Galleries would be created simply by selecting media items from the
 library, and dragging+dropping to determine order. Of course, galleries
 would be completely editable, and accessible by the loop via shortcode.

 3) Filtering. Add the ability to add/assign tags and categories to media
 items. Allow alphabetical sorting or filetype sorting.

 These basic improvements would really be all that's needed to take WP's
 media library to a baseline level of functionality.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15127>
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