[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22085: Correctly assign post_parent to uploaded attachments in the new media modal

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#22085: Correctly assign post_parent to uploaded attachments in the new media modal
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 Reporter:  koopersmith   |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.5
Component:  Media         |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |
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Comment (by helenyhou):

 Replying to [comment:1 mdgl]:
 > Sorry I need to do a bit of "thinking out loud" here and I may have more
 to say on this later, but my first reaction to this is to ask "why would
 we want to assign post_parent to uploaded attachments"?
 >
 > Granted there are backwards-compatibility issues but I thought that in
 3.5 we were trying to do a thorough overall of media handling?  Scribu for
 example hints (comment:ticket:21776:22) that we are trying to "de-
 emphasize" the post_parent field for attachments.

 De-emphasizing doesn't mean outright removing the relationship. It is not
 uncommon for a site to be developed using the attachment-post_parent
 relationship to power certain functionality. The assignment already
 happens on upload or insertion of a previously-unattached attachment, so
 this is about maintaining the current behavior. To suddenly stop doing
 this would be more than an issue - more along the lines of at least a
 serious headache, if not a nightmare or disaster, for developers and users
 alike.

 3.5 isn't about a thorough overhaul of media handling. It's about re-
 thinking and re-doing the workflows and thus interfaces and related code
 for the selection and insertion of media and galleries. The gallery
 shortcode takes a comma separated list of IDs for attachments that is
 independent of the attachment/parent relationship. What we are getting,
 among other things, for this release is what you can think of as a real UI
 for creating that shortcode and attribute, since you can't possibly expect
 an end-user (even a savvy one) to go through and find IDs for all the
 attachments they want. This ability to decouple the gallery shortcode in a
 functional way from that attachment model is the de-emphasis. See #21390,
 #21815, #21809, and probably others.

 > But why stop at just image attachments?  Why shouldn't I be able to
 attach any number of posts/pages or other objects to another post?

 Why can't you now? You can assign as many objects to a given parent as you
 want, without any need for them to be of the same post type (there's just
 not necessarily the right UI built in for it because it's not common), and
 there's the lovely [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/
 Posts 2 Posts] for many-to-many relationships that, if not built into
 core, does what you need.

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