[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 aaroncampbell):

 Replying to [comment:35 melchoyce]:
 > 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.

 I agree, as far as core, but I think it's likely that numerous plugins
 leverage these relations quite a bit. The real problem, in my opinion,
 isn't the idea that media can be attached to a post, it's that it can only
 be attached to a single post (it uses post parent). It really becomes the
 classic post-to-post relation issue though, which we don't solve for other
 post types, so maybe we shouldn't try to solve it for media either?

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6820#comment:36>
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