You need to install and activate the SP Uploader plugin to get uploading of images and files.

Browsing through current folders is a bit more of a problem. The old browser and method was pretty much universally hated and was also found to be a bit of a security risk. So it has been removed. We hope to replace the browsing functionality in some way very soon.

Okay, that’s fine — I wasn’t much of a fan either.

But what about my second question?

Daniel Hatfield said
I don’t see any options for embedding images (or even for copying their URLs to use the standard image embed button) in the Upload Attachment area. So, if auto-embedded is disabled, how do you do it manually?

I am not sure I understand what you are meaning. Images can be uploaded to the server using out uploader plugin. External images can be linked to using the image toolbar button as always. What am I missing here?

If you use the upload plugin, it is very simple to upload. I love that.

However, the only way I can figure out how to embed an image after it has been uploaded is to have the “auto embed” setting enabled so that the image automatically embeds after being uploaded.

But if this setting is disabled, then I don’t see a way to embed the image:

I can’t click on the title in the upload area to embed or even to grab the new URL (so I can use the standard TinyMCE area).

I must be missing something, right?

excuse me please if I am sounding dumb… Are you saying that after the upload of an image it does not appear in the post content in the editor before saving? This should not require auto-embed tirned on,. It should be automatic.

When I have this unchecked it does not auto-embed for me…

which is what I want… my question is, how do I embed uploaded images manually?

Sorry – I thought you were referring to the actual auto-embed feature (oEmbed). Something different.

The url to each uploaded image is available in the link in the ‘attachment’ box on the post.

And I appreciate you might want to look at old images and need the browser. We are getting there with something as soon as we can.

Yellow Swordfish said
The url to each uploaded image is available in the link in the ‘attachment’ box on the post.

So what you’re saying is that, if I want to manually embed an uploaded image, I have to upload it using the plugin, submit the post, copy the url for the attachment box, edit the post, and then use the regular TinyMCE button to embed the image?

Because the attachment box doesn’t show up until the post is published, right?

OK – I am still totally confused here – sorry.
If you WANT the uploaded image to appear in the post then why are you turning off the auto-insert option?

Perhaps going back to the beginning and explaining to me what it is you want to accomplish might help.

I just don’t like the auto embed function.

Let’s do it this way. Just tell me the basic steps to get an image from the uploader into a post without auto embedding. Let’s pretend auto-embedding doesn’t exist.

(Real world example: I just uploaded an image, it auto embedded, but I accidentally deleted it from my post before I published the post. How do I embed it again?)

Tell me the issue with auto-inserting (it is not embedding – whatever you think that means – it is inserting as it says). All it is doing is what you are asking to be able to do manually., It is inserting the correct html for the image into the post content at the point of the cursor. What could you possibly object to with that – when it is the very thing you are trying to achieve?

I think that is your way of saying that I can’t manually insert uploaded images. That’s all I was asking.

Of course not, You can paste in image urls to your hearts content. What I said earlier was that until we get a good file browser back in place that is secure you will need to know that url as we can’t look it up for you. And that is on the cards and needed as soon as we can.
But you didn’t answer my question regarding auto-inserting.

Yellow Swordfish said
Of course not, You can paste in image urls to your hearts content.

That is not useful though, when one is using the upload plugin, because there is no way to get the image URL from the uploader itself. As it stands right now you have to publish the post, then get the URL from the attachment box, and then edit the post and use the TinyMCE insert function. Right? And if you have the attachment box setting disabled, then you have no way of getting the uploaded image URL at all.

It isn’t that I don’t like auto-inserting. Rather, several of my users found it confusing. First off, if auto-inserting is enabled, there should be a line somewhere in the uploader that media will appear automatically in posts since the uploader does not include a built-in insert function. Second, if you accidentally delete an uploaded image in the text input area when trying to move it or whatever, there is no way to re-insert the image without uploading it again.

It is just a clunky system compared to how smoothly everything else in Simple:Press works.