If there has been one glaring problem with WordPress for new users- it’s been the posting of pictures- from, like, day 1. While the tools have gotten better, there are still way too many steps and choices involved in “insert picture here” – 2.9 hopefully is going to solve some of those problems:
Images now feel more at home in the publishing process, thanks to the integration of image editing.
For example, you’ll now find a built in image editor. To edit your images, head to your media library, choose the image you want to change, and click on the new “Edit Image” button. There’s a crop tool… which you can also set the aspect ratio for… in addition to image rotation, and horizontal and vertical image flipping.
Media embedding has also undergone a major makeover. Support for the oEmbed standard makes copying and pasting video URLs right into your post super-simple.
Now all you need to do is paste the URL onto a line of its own… Use the new embed shortcode if you don’t want to separate it onto it’s own line… Or “Add Video From URL” from the visual editor icon. And you’re good to go.
By default you’ll find that there’s support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, & WordPress.tv, with more on the way.
No more plugins to insert videos, editing of pictures including cropping and manipulation of image position. Now, let’s hope there is only one “Media” button instead of four to click. Simplification is key if you really live the WordPress developers Automattic’s tagline “code is poetry.”
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Yousendit.com is a great service- they give you a free trial- but then they want you to pay. It allows you to send files to people that are too large for e-mail, and when you don’t want to set up and manage an FTP site.
Just discovered a free site that does the same thing, senduit.com it’s supposed to be ad supported, but, I just stared at a blank screen. It gives you options on how long you want your files to be shared until deleted and allows you to distribute the same file to as many people at once.