Set Featured Image

I’m not sure I understand your question. You’ve described the grid in the media library, so I take it the view when you upload from the “featured image” function is the list or rather table that also lists the titles and what posts the image is used in? I’m asking because it’s exactly the other way around in my setup.

Anyway, if that’s what you’re asking for and you want to change it, there are two buttons at the top of the media library page and also the upload thing the featured image dialogue leads to. One looks like a window (it’s supposed to be a grid, though) and one actually resembles a list. You can toggle the view with those.

if that wasn’t it, please specify?

Okay. So when I select “Set Feature Image” a window pops up and what I see is a grid of ALL the images I’ve uploaded into the media library (300 images or so.)

At the top of that window is the “Upload” tab and the “Media Library” tab. My problem is that under the Media Library tab the images cannot be sorted (or I don’t know where or how to change the sorting.) So when I’m trying to upload an image from the Media Library window, I have to dig through 300+ images to find the page I want to upload.

Now, if I navigate to the actual WordPress media library outside of comic easel, then I have no problem navigating to what I’m looking for because everything in the library is sorted into folders. But the comic easel library does not reflect the format of the wordpress media library, so essentially, all of the organized comic files in the library are useless inside comic-easel.

I’m just trying to figure out if that’s by design or if there’s a setting somewhere I’m missing.

Just wanted to add that on the “Add Comic” page, if I select “Media Selector” at the top of the page, then it does break the art down into the folders like it is in the WordPress Media Library, making it much easier to navigate; however, when I embed the comic page like this, it breaks the “click current page for next page” on the actual website AND the image resolution on the website.

Using Media Selector, the page sizes are smaller and readers can only navigate using the navigation menu. But if I use the “Set Feature Image” option to post the pages, then the resolution is normal and readers can either click the page to load the next one or use the navigation menu to click to the next page.

So the Set Feature Image option is better for the website functionality, but the media library that it loads into is broken compared to the “normal” media library you get either through wordpress or the Media Selector option.

My bad. I thought I’d seen a toggle there. I never had much call to use it because I only ever use the featured image function when I also upload a featured image, one pic at a time, so the question of searching them hardly ever comes up (or I use the search function).

Anyway, what you’re describing is not a Comic Easel issue but a general WordPress one. You might want to check if anybody has a fix on stack exchange. There may be a plugin for it, too.

Hmmm. Interesting. WordPress’s media library plugin works fine and I can navigate through the folders I created, so I don’t know if that’s the problem either.

Comic Easel uses the same folder structure if I use the Media Selector option when trying to upload a page but NOT if I use the Set Feature Image option. This leads me to believe it’s got to be something in Comic Easel. (Because it works using one function but doesn’t work using another.)

To be fair, it’s also true that if I just upload the pages one at a time instead of uploading the entire book into WordPress this is a non-issue because I can use Set Feature Image to upload directly from my computer.

This was more of a problem when I was uploading old books I’d already done. Though it’s annoying that this problem exists.

I get the same template when I use the featured media button from the ‘add post’ page or any other such form. That’s why I think it’s a WP thing.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by MaxVaehling.

Sorry, I didn’t understand your response.

Do you mean inside or outside of Comic Easel?

In comic easel on the “Add Comic” page there are three ways to upload an image:

Media-Selector
Add Media
Set featured Image

Trying all three I only see the Word Press Media Library folder structure when I use Media-Selector. Both Add Media and Set Featured Image give me that unsorted thousand image grid.

Honestly, it would be easier to use Media-Selector if it didn’t break the image resolution and the click page for next image function.

For reference, on my site: https://www.bridgefirecomics.com/blog/comic/nutcracker-cops-page-1/

The page loads in its full correct size as long as I use Set Featured Image to post it. Also, when you click the page it takes you to the next page. This does not work if I use Media-Selector or Add Image.

What I’m saying is that what you describe is not singular to comic posts but applies to all post types, including regular blog posts and pages. That means it’s not a Comic Easel issue (although it’s understandably more prevalent for comic posts, being all about the featured image and all) but a general WordPress one. If there’s an already-developed solution to it, that’s the level where you’d find it. Either by googling some key words including “WordPress” which should get you to the right forums or by looking for a plugin that extends the featured image dialogue. (I’ve done a quick search, though, but haven’t found any at first glance that do exactly what you want. There may be some that assist in bulk managing featured images, though.)

As for the setup as-is, best I can do is recommend using the search on top of the gallery popup you get when adding a featured image. (Top right on my screen.) I don’t know your file naming convention but if you know what the files should be called you should be able to compress the grid view just fine.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by MaxVaehling.

Aaah. Okay, I see what you mean now. I’ve only dealt with WordPress in regards to Comic Easel. I didn’t know Set Featured Image was a general function (I thought it was specific to WP.) That makes sense.

I tried updating the WordPress Media Library to see if that had any effect but it didn’t. What I ended up doing last time was your suggestion of using the search bar to find the pages one at a time (lol, super tedious.)

But thank you, I think I understand a little better what the actual problem is. Hopefully I can find something, otherwise, I’ll have to stick to uploading the pages directly into the site instead of organizing them in the Library first.

Thanks for your help.