After playing with the new image uploaded in Wordpress I have come to the conclusion that it sucks. Not only does it suck, but it dosnt do anything I want it to. The old way was select my picture, say if I wanted a thumbnail, take the link it gave me and past it in my post. It was a very simple system with no little bells.. But it worked great! The new system is a AJAX editor with browsing and resizing and seems to only make a thumbnail one size. Mind you I can resize that image to a larger size with the same size image. This as you can expect makes for a very blured image and it looks like ass. It also does not work well on a smaller screen and you are trying to guess how big it is. I will give the authors a clap for making a very slick interface, but it does not perform the simple task that I want it to do as well as the old browse button with 3 option boxes. I think the people at wordpress might have forgotten the line “WordPress believes in keeping it simple, and a lot of thought goes into including new functionality as a part of the “core” WordPress code”. I really dont like the “advance editor” so I turned it off, but because they decided everyone should just use it features that where once done by smaller simpler tasks are now missing.

I think I need to find a plug in that works how the old built in image upload worked. Or just see if I can make my own from the orig one.

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