Wordpress Question - Uploading Images

p

Hey all,

Got a quick question about customizing Wordpress to use as a CMS for my Dad. He's got a website about archaeological artefacts, and has an entry on each site. I did the website in Textpattern a few years ago, but and going to move to Wordpress now cause it seems better by all accounts.

I've never used Wordpress so have a small question about how to upload images the way I want. Here's the wireframe:



I want him to be able to upload images that are associated with a specific artefact. I know you can upload image and place them in-line in the text, but I don't want that. I've previously used Expression Engine to achieve a similar result, but EE isn't suitable for this project.

Any suggestions?

oeb

p wrote: »

Hey all,

Got a quick question about customizing Wordpress to use as a CMS for my Dad. He's got a website about archaeological artefacts, and has an entry on each site. I did the website in Textpattern a few years ago, but and going to move to Wordpress now cause it seems better by all accounts.

I've never used Wordpress so have a small question about how to upload images the way I want. Here's the wireframe:

I want him to be able to upload images that are associated with a specific artefact. I know you can upload image and place them in-line in the text, but I don't want that. I've previously used Expression Engine to achieve a similar result, but EE isn't suitable for this project.

Any suggestions?

I would probably look at fiddling around with the custom fields in wordpress you can specify what goes where in your template, and allow your dad to just select the four or five images he wants.

p

I've looked into the custom fields bit, but can't seem to find any nice way of him to select the images as you're suggesting. That would be ideal, do you know how to do that?

pauldiv

Have you looked at the NextGen gallery plugin?
You can create a gallery of images and then insert the gallery straight into a post.

p

Haven't heard of that plugin. I'll check it out - cheers!