[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20540: Attaching media to multiple posts

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#20540: Attaching media to multiple posts
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 Reporter:  mikkelbreum      |      Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General          |    Version:  3.3
 Severity:  normal           |   Keywords:  2nd-opinion
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 I'd like to see support for attaching an asset from the media library to
 more than one post.

 When using WordPRess as a CMS, you often want the same image to appear in
 different contexts. It's relevant for any site with content placed in
 multiple taxonomies. A book or a car that should be featured in multiple
 categories for example.

 Say you use a slider plugin (like Soliloquy) that creates sliders as a
 custom post type, using media attachments for adding images to the
 different sliders.

 Now, you have to upload the same image multiple times to acheive this.
 That means, that if you need to update the image, you have to repeat that
 for all instanses (and remember them all), you'll have cache inefficiency,
 and you'll have to pay extra for CDN (for some sites this could be a major
 issue in itself).

 It goes against good practice not to reuse one instance of an asset rather
 than managing multiple copies of the same content.

 Being able to attach the same instance to more than one post would solve
 this problem.

 As WordPress is used more and more as a CMS, I think this feature should
 be high on the list.

 I'm sure this must be a dublicate request, but I could'nt find other
 tickets addressing this.

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