Hence… each photo is still unique… Creates a large and unmanageable potential mess long term… jmo…

I heard WordPress the newer version offers image editing capabilities, however it seems to repeat desktop editing functionality in the browser as opposed to “on-the-fly” image management.

It seems you just have the ability to create new images for use elsewhere…

OOP is really not beneficial in the sense that anyone can still write a mess in OOP code.

Just wanted to come back and mention that regeneration is something I used to do with my CMS but it creates an issue with reusing the same image in multiple areas at different resolutions. An upper limit, sure, but a fixed size applied and recompressed against all images? It sounds like it could be CSS in which case it works, but not very well…

I don’t want to give it away, but drupal is most certainly the closest one to having it set up right…

You can tell by the folder naming structure…

But… I do believe there is a plugin for image thumbnail resizing up on wp somewhere.
In one swoop, it will regenerate all image to your preferred size, as set in WP media prefs.

(none of the above obviates the need for better image handling, just helps alleviate a bit).

Personally, looking forwards to moving to Drupal in future.

It took me a while to do it for my websites. You have to mess around with the actual server itself to handle redirects and such. I’m not so sure wordpress would work in every circmstance depending on how your server was configured. Example, CGI versus Apache Mod, Linux versus Windows.

That’s probably why they don’t do it.

As for the load on the server. You only need to compress it “on-the-fly” once and cache the results.

Typically, wordpress is a big mashy mess, far from anything innovative at all… it’s really just popular. It will an eternity before they really hammer everything out, jmo… I mean they laid such a strange groundwork now they are stuck with it as many people have extended it.

Hope that helps paint a picture…

Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate the distinction between .org and .com and Automattic different role with each, but I hope you’ll appreciate that for a many WP users, WordPress is WordPress and WordPress is Automattic.

Anyway, my frustration had more to do with the fact that WP has painted me into a corner with hard-coded image-sizes with no way to easily adjust now for a new theme with a wider content area.

Also, common mistake, but Automattic does not make WordPress.org, it’s made by many people (over 140 thanked in the announcement post) the vast majority of whom have nothing to do with Automattic, and some find it insulting when you refer to them as one and the same.