I must have 20 something revisions on this post and I am still not fully satisfied with it. Not because of some poetic reason like the words being used to describe the photos, but because I am fully realizing how much I dislike the block editor that is now the default in WordPress.
While admiring this processed black and white drone shot of New York City by way of New Jersey, know that I have never liked the built-in Media Library of WordPress. For a platform that seems to market itself towards media-centric projects, the built in asset management of the WordPress Media Library seems to have not changed one bit since the original release of the platform. The only search and organization is a tag based search system. What I wouldn’t give for a built in folder system to organize media with.
Yes I know that like any other open platform, there are a series of plugins that could potentially make my life easier. And to that I say, if you look up there is a nice drone shot of a small Jersey town festival over Labor Day weekend. It was taken with automatic exposure bracketing and I processed it afterwards in AfterShot Pro. Along with that I’ll say that I already have my share of WordPress plugins running that manage to make my shared hosting slow to a crawl.
What a nice panorama of the Catskill mountains, if only there was some way to pan through it and really take a look at it closer. Well there are various WordPress plugin subscription services I can use for the ++checks count++ one panorama I post each year. Even opening it up to a lightbox does nothing.
The final count was 25 revisions of this post as I tried to figure out how WordPress and images are handled with the block editor.