Title: A few things
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# A few things

 *  [Baiz Yeh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dkwo/)
 * (@dkwo)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-few-things-3/)
 * Hi!
 * First of all just want to say thank to the author for this plugin — I’m building
   a community blog that allows users to upload photos within a post so uploaded
   images will be listed with a gallery shortcode, and that since it utilizes the
   library core function I can process uploaded files further with ease. There are
   tons of unloaders but it was hard to find one that does just what I want.
 * There are a few suggestions.
    1. **is it possible to auto-approve files uploaded by registered users?** I’ve 
       surrounded the upload form by a member only shortcode using another plugin, 
       but I still have to approve each single images. I think would be logical to 
       approve files uploaded by trusted users, but now even a file uploaded by admin
       needs approval. The idea of the plugin is great, but I was also seeking options
       to extend it.
    2. **Unable to customize mark up.** I appreciate that the title and other values
       and other static string can be entered through the shortcode, but I can’t customize
       the markup. For example it currently uses the h2 tag for title, it would be 
       great if I can just use my own tag.
    3. **Pre-populate captions in shortcode.** I’d like to pre-populate the captions
       so uploaded files can be searched and reused later, but I couldn’t find a way
       to hide the input tag. The temporary fix is to use a static input HTML code 
       but it would be nice if there’s a option to hide input.
    4. **Need more fields! (-;** Can we also have other fields such as description,
       basically all changeable fields in a standard file? Again this is for information
       purpose so files can be easily reused later.
 * Well… I think I’m asking a lot! (-; But it would be great if they can be looked
   into to make this even greater plugin!
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/frontend-uploader/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/frontend-uploader/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Rinat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinatkhaziev/)
 * (@rinatkhaziev)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-few-things-3/#post-3192864)
 * Hey Baiz,
 * Thanks for your kind words.
 * 1. This is a good one, I’ve added an issue.
    2. There’s some customization possible(
   via shortcode itself and a filter), but that totally makes sense. Thanks for 
   bringing that up, added as an issue as well. 3. Not sure what do you mean 4. 
   You can add more fields with filters, please refer to [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/frontend-uploader/other_notes/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/frontend-uploader/other_notes/).
   Although, it requires some PHP knowledge. I would be glad to hear more details
   about your use case.
 * The last, but not the least, I’m currently severely swamped with client work,
   so there’s no tentative date for the new release .
 *  Thread Starter [Baiz Yeh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dkwo/)
 * (@dkwo)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-few-things-3/#post-3192867)
 * Hi Rinat,
 * Thanks for the hints — really helpful! Oh no problem, just when you have time
   to take a look would be great, the fix that I need the most is auto approve, 
   I guess I can create a script to hook to your plugin to fix this for the time
   been.
 * For (3), yeah the wording was strange, must been thinking something else when
   I was writing. (-; I meant that I need an option to hide input tags, make such
   as tge caption input hidden.
 * The use case for (4 – more fields) is that, it’s a little long story but, the
   post that will be using Frontend Upload is generated based on a predefined form,
   and post title / category / tags / body are automatically set based on user inputs,
   now, on the generated post, I’d like to set Frontend Upload to pre-populate hidden
   fields, such as post title goes to image title, “Photo of %category% posted by%
   display_name%” as alternative text, some more information in description field
   for SEO purpose, etc., so the idea is to prepare the information of files to 
   be uploaded by Frontend Upload.
 * The application is an all-age community site so I’d like to make things really
   simple so they don’t need to learn how to post blog or use the default media 
   uploader. (-; I plan to add sections so that users can see photos of specific
   events and that is another reason why pre-defined information will be useful 
   later.
 * Again Rinat, please take it easy and no rush, your plugin is really cool for 
   me already, take time to make the plugin better!
 * Last note, though, if you’re going to implement auto approval for registered 
   users, it would be nice to make uploaded file owned by that user, so that if 
   the user become naughty later his all posts / files can be deleted with ease.
 * Thanks!

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