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I bought my copy of EE Personal back in July to redo my blog site with (currently done in wordpress). Being a developer I have little time for my own projects and this was to be my shortcut. I’ve been building my templates off-line for the time being while researching online how best to organize my content via EE’s weblogs & categories.

Most planning issues I’ve come upon have been easily resolved with a little reading of the forums or wiki. There’s just so much material to draw from, for that I am grateful.

One topic I’ve been unable to tackle however is finding my preferred workflow for the posting of images to both my weblog and the gallery module. I’ve read countless different threads on the subject, some advise building your entire gallery from your weblog and bypassing the gallery module entirely, another method advises adding a relationship field in your weblog that ties a post to an entire gallery, still another advises you make the relationship to individual pictures (but this appears to only be able to relate on a particular gallery?) ... it would be so handy to have all these options analyzed in one place. I realize no solution is perfect for everyone.

In my prior install of wordpress, I used a plug-in called ZenPress. Its primary purpose was to provide a thumbnail image linker button to the ‘create post’ pages. You had an interface for browsing your separate ZenPhoto gallery and some options for what sort of thumbnail/link you wanted to create ... the end result was div/img html injected into your post, placed where you wished. Pretty handy for placing a img in a desired location within some text. I’ve not been able to find an equivalent solution for EE yet.

In my ideal system. I’d be able to link a post up with an array of images (0+), from different galleries if needed ... I’m hesitant to post these images as file uploads as I would then lose the benefit of the gallery view elsewhere. I’d like to be able to post to my blog, and at the time of posting, select thumbnails from my existing gallery to include in my post, that would then link to the actual gallery when viewed ... is this possible?

Can anyone recommend good reading on this subject, its very difficult to give weight to one post over another when you’re so confused on the matter.

I’m a little concerned that I’ve already bought my copy of EE, and by the time I get things running it will be 6 months into my support agreement. Its not quite as easy to organize as I had hoped it would be.

*sigh* my talent for being ignored is in high gear today ... heh

I don’t think it’s a talent, just timing, with the long holiday weekend, there’s not many around the forums.

heh true ... good point. Funny how these holidays just come out of nowhere when you work from home. You always think everyone else just works 24/7 as well.

I’ll sit on this post a bit longer and see what sort of responses it fishes up after monday.

I’ve been working on the weblog side of things so I have time to kill before i need this image posting workflow figured out.

ideally, images i uploaded would always be part of my default gallery (though in a specific gallery category) ... and i’d be able to associate 0+ images from that gallery with a given blog post. I don’t need to get fussy with where exactly they appear in my blog post. I wouldn’t be able to determine ahead of time which gallery category I’d always want o pull from so I don’t think I’d be able to hard code a relationship to only one category if that makes sense.