[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6820: Make it possible to manually detach/attach post images

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#6820: Make it possible to manually detach/attach post images
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 Reporter:  matt                                 |       Owner:  matt
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  low                                  |   Milestone:  4.2
Component:  Media                                |     Version:
 Severity:  minor                                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-docs dev-feedback    |     Focuses:  ui
  4.2-beta                                       |
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Comment (by melchoyce):

 > Someday, let's discuss how to kill the notion of attached and detached.
 I end up with unattached images all the time because I often share
 straight to the media lib from mobile and later blog from desktop (making
 galleries on mobile is difficult). Images uploaded to the media lib don't
 get attached to posts when they are later published. This messes up
 filtering down to images uploaded to the post and messes up reader plugins
 (which are still reliant on attached status and featured images and don't
 have API for getting all images in content). Instead of making users
 manually attach images, we should pursue attachment independence further.
 Galleries no longer depend on attached status. Let's finish the job.

 I admit that when I saw this ticket pop up, that was my first thought —
 why do we even have attached/detached? I'm honestly barely even sure I
 understand what it really means. Is it still used for anything? I'm sure
 the vast majority of users don't know and don't care — they just want to
 add and remove images from their post content. Attach/detach feels like an
 irrelevant concept in today's WordPress.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6820#comment:35>
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