Does this exist? A way to automatically insert featured image into post body

  • A little background …

    I’m used to CMSes used by newspaper publishers and the like — systems like Zope and Saxotech. From a usability standpoint, WordPress is better than these proprietary systems 99 percent of the time (especially Saxo, which is a nightmare). But there is one behavior of these systems that I’d like to find a way to replicate.

    In Zope, for instance, when you want a photo to appear in your post, there is no “insert media” button — you attach a photo as a “related item,” much the same way you would add a featured image to a WordPress post, and it is automatically inserted in a specific place. If you add multiple images, depending on the CMS, they may be stacked on top of each other or they may become a slideshow, but again, inserted into the post body at a predetermined location.

    Now, I LOVE the fact that WordPress lets you insert images anywhere and choose their size, location, etc. It’s fantastically flexible. But I’m also looking at implementing WordPress in a production environment where there will be many users, with varying levels of comfort, all trying to work very quickly.

    Having the CMS automatically handle the placement of images once you “attach” them would be extremely convenient, especially if you had the ability to override it and place the “normal” way as well.

    I know there are plugins that allow a post to have multiple featured images. Is there a plugin that gives you the option (a checkbox in the featured image field would be great) to have the featured image automatically inserted in the post body in a predetermined way?

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  • If it ws me doing htis (and I’ve done it a few times before), I have two different ways of handling this depending on what the site needs.

    Firstly I use all of the images that are attached to that post/page/etc, and display them in a sort of gallery (not the way that WordPress does a gallery) so the layout of them changes from site to site depending on the layout of the design.

    Second I’ll set up a selection area that allows users to choose from the images that are uploaded to that post/page/etc if users need to choose which images are attached.

    For both cases the output is done in my template files, mainly single-page.php and single-post.php, so that they show the images without any other interaction from the user.

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