You can only use uploaded images as featured images. Uploading an image ALWAYS adds it to the media library, though.
Thread Starter
kanote
(@ryniek)
But in my case it didn’t uploaded, don’t know why 😛
Ok, but i requested and idea. If anyone will take it into account?
Thanks
Hard to say. At a guess, you didn’t upload it, you just linked to it.
Thread Starter
kanote
(@ryniek)
Yes, i’ve linked as i remember, but why it didn’t auto uploaded to the library? This feature as those mentioned above by me, should be added to WP. It would be nice to have that.
Linking to an image isn’t uploading it.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/media-add-new/
(The directions are wp.com, but they still apply for .org in this case)
Thread Starter
kanote
(@ryniek)
I know that it isn’t, i didn’t said it is. 🙂
Also i want to remind you that i mentioned something few posts above – that Featured Images outside library (that are linked not uploaded into library) are pasted as a normal images into post content, but should be just set as post thumbs to that post. So current mechanism must be edited a bit: when someone selects Featured Image outside library, this image should be else uploaded into library and auto set as a post thumb, or just set as a post thumb while being only hotlinked. Now, user is able to set Featured Image only from images present in media library, and that’s inconvenient.
I can only suggest idea, because still can’t code. Started learning PHP few days ago.
Not gonna happen. It’s been suggested before, and it just doesn’t work.
Not to mention the evils of hotlinking 🙂
Thread Starter
kanote
(@ryniek)
Not even auto upload after linking the image? Without that blogger is forced to upload manually every image, with that user can save some time. It’s not such a bad idea, so why it wasn’t approved then?
Lot of reasons. You may not have permissions to download the image from the website, or access to do so, at the very least.
Thread Starter
kanote
(@ryniek)
But image posted to public automatically gets available to download by everyone. If people don’t want to have their images copied, they shouldn’t post it publicly or should secure this image to make it impossible to copy. The law says that image must not be edited without author’s permissions, but if someone’s posts images without any copyright’s or effort to secure it, it looks that this person didn’t lent significance to this – didin’t gave a sh!t.
And the last point is trivial: not every image on the net is copyrighted – there are many images that are made with copyleft/creative commons license, which allows poeple over internet to freely copy, redistribute and sometimes even modify them.
So, IMO, this feature could be added if developers would want to do it, it’s no a crime and not every human in internet is a software pirate.
Cheers
If I leave my car unlocked and you drive away with it, I’m an idiot, but you’re still a thief.
Hotlinking is STILL a crime (if it’s done without permission) and image theft is too. So don’t do it.
Do it right. Download the image to your own server IF AND ONLY IF you have permission. Yes, you have to do this the hard way.
Thread Starter
kanote
(@ryniek)
Hotlinking is STILL a crime (if it’s done without permission) and image theft is too. So don’t do it.
Hotlinking is bad, but copying image that can be freely redistributable isn’t. So i still think that such a feature is not a crime.
An image owner does not surrender his copyright by posting the image online, even if it’s not secured.
The 8MB limit is set by your server’s PHP configuration and not by WordPress.
Hotlinking is bad, but copying image that can be freely redistributable isn’t.
That’s assuming all pictures posted online are freely redistributable 🙂
http://www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/
Thread Starter
kanote
(@ryniek)
So going this way, i can ask for permission the author and then upload the image, so this doesn’t excludes a chance to implement such autoupload feature to WP Library module and don’t break the law.
