An additional reason for some sort of media library

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(I realize I am starting a large number of topics. Sorry; new to Ghost, and lots of questions / suggestions.)

A reason for adding a media library to Ghost:

In my current Wordpress installation, I have over 5,000 images. Some are shot by our own photographers (we’re a news site), some are licensed, and some are public domain.

In the media library, I always enter the metadata to indicate where the image came from. I usually include that attribution in the caption as well.

Now with Ghost, I have to keep two things: image files stored in some sort of storage, AND a separate spreadsheet with all the metadata for those images. When I want to add a featured image that I have already obtained, I have to find it in the spreadsheet, find the file, then upload the file (sometimes for the umpteenth time) and copy the metadata from the spreadsheet into the caption.

I understand there are various integrations with Azure and Google Drive. Unfortunately, those are added at the Ghost server level, and I do not have FTP access to my Ghost installation.

I’m committed to moving to Ghost from WP, for a number of reasons – but the lack of a media library, and the immature nature of the admin side of the system, is making it harder than it should be.

Please consider some way of better integrating media images and metadata with the tool. Thanks!

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Totally agree, I have also moved from WordPress and I too think that there are several administrative management improvements that Ghost could do with and media management is definitely one of them.

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Hello, Same with me. If you have a lot of images, it becomes difficult. A media manager would be nice…

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+1 for me…

as an unrelated question. where do i find my uploaded pictures if i want to use the same picture over in multiple post?

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Ghost uses roughly the same image filing system as Wordpress – an image folder with content broken into year and month.

Once you upload one of your own images to Ghost, you can then view the post in either preview or after publishing, right-click on the image, and copy the image address. This is useful if you want to use the image again in the body of a post with an < img > tag.

However, there is no way to reuse an image as the featured image, as there is no way to enter a URL for a featured image. You have to upload it again.

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Thanks.
is there a way to “delete” unused images?

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If you have FTP access to your server, you could do it that way. If you don’t, I can’t think of a way to do it.

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@rotello one way to reuse the same image in multiple posts is – you can find the URL as usual by right-clicking on the image and selecting “Copy image address” in the context menu. Then paste the URL in the other post where you want to reuse the image.

Another thing you can do is to create a page on your site where you gather and display all of the images from all of the posts. This is not a solution, but might be helpful…

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that’s an idea, thanks.
but with all the discussion about the energy cost of uploading and downloading images, no one at Ghost thoght about a media gallery.
I ll write

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Ghost needs to add a media library.

Embedded within Ghost’s ethos is a commitment to crafting a clean, pleasing interface for writing compelling stories.

Yet there is an immediate loss of focus when I have to instruct a writer to re-upload photos and re-add the photo’s metadata on a topic frequently discussed in a publication. This is inherently tedious and unproductive.

From a technical perspective, having a unified media library minimizes server storage and resources.

Isn’t this an easy win?

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Yes not sure what they were thinking leaving something so significant out but some sort of file management is way overdue.

I’ve lost count the number of times we’ve uploaded the same images.

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