WordPress 2.5 Gallery Rant!

i worked with this for 1 post and found like 10 bugs. I don’t feel like posting this shit anywhere, cause i’m weeks after the release and i don’t feel like dealing with accounts and email and forums. Perhaps sometime I will see about the beta tester process, but only if they let me communicate with the key developers. I’m not farting around on a forum I am too advanced for that.

1 hour, i found:

  1. the multi-file upload makes your last item in the upload array the first, so the order is fubarred
  2. sort order is pulled by the id in the db, not by the filename. This is unintuitive.
  3. Documentation on the orderby param for galleries is minimal.
  4. Flash uploader also orders from post id in the db, and this is non-configurable
  5. Flash uploader needs to present common editing options in a grid and truly be a multi-editor
  6. Flash uploader does not allow multi file inserts without opening and closing, but will allow multiple file changes.
  7. Thumbnail default changes affect the creation of the thumbnail image only. You need to manually recode the html to get an existing uploaded image to be your new size. This would be so easy to fix if the thumbnail default setting just wrote to the flash editor, no html to worry about and it would not affect existing posts. Who cares if you resize a 150×150 thumbnail to 100×100 or vice versa its a damn crappy picture already
  8. Columns in the gallery are n-1, with the last item wrapping to the next row.
  9. Their plugin to disable the flash uploader only disables the ability to upload multi files you still need to use the crappy flash program to manage your files.

What a piece of shit!

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