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I’ve been getting frustrated trying to come up with a good way to give clients to add images inside entries, especially a way for them to be able to put in a thumbnail image and have it automagically “click to view larger”. Something like http://posterous.com/ uses. Right now, to add an image they have to upload a file, then cut the img tag copy that EE puts in at the bottom of the entry field and paste it in where they want it. In order to do a thumbnail/click to view larger, they have to create the thumbnail themselves, add it and link it to the larger version and add a class=“thickbox” to the link. Or, they have to use the Gallery module, which adds a whole series of steps.

Has anyone ever found a convenient way to do this? I’m hoping that 2.0 will fix this, and that it will come out very, very soon.

What you’re suggesting is so specialized that it can’t really be a feature in 2.0.

What you need is some kind of JavaScript that recognizes all your images, makes them smaller and then adds a class to them - which isn’t that much of a hassle actually.
Your only problem would be creating the thumbnail - which JavaScript can’t do all by itself. For this I suggest you use the built-in feature in EE which allows you to create a smaller version of the image suitable as a thumbnail.

sounds like a job for imgsizer from Lumis. Check it out…

http://www.lumis.com/page/imgsizer/

M.

There are no perfect solutions so we can only offer different ways we have tackled this problem.  I hate WYSIWYG but I have used TinyMCE with TinyBrowser for some clients.  The combo gives you a number of ways to accomplish what you have been asking for.

Take a look here to see how to use TinyMCE and TinyBrowser with EE.