Media Library Functionality

[Jam]

I’m really digging the Ghost Platform so far but I’m having trouble adjusting from WordPress given Ghost’s lack of built-in media library functionality, similar to Wordpress.

Is there some way that I could potentially integrate this media library functionality into Ghost, using an integration or plugin?

[itsmingjie]

Here’s a similar discussion – TL;DR, media library is a little bit more complexed to add into the system at that point, but there are a few ways (mainly through external integrations) where you can implement some sort of media control.

Better image/file management & optimisation

We’ve made a lot of progress with better image support in Ghost this year. That said, this issue has become a bit of a dumping ground for just about anything related to media, up to and including the kitchen sink I’m going to run through the main things that have been talked about and wrap this topic up, because the majority of them have been completed at this stage. If anyone wants to start new, more specific, ideas topics after this - that’s absolutely fine! Things that …

[fakruzaruret]

I think, Ghost CMS’s worst side is this. Media Library. We have to upload and upload again the same images. May be I can would like to use older image for future posts. Why I need to upload again for new post? Yes this is complex but they say " We’ve raised $5,000,000 " . I am happy an open source project provide to gain money but 7 years left and 5 million dollars gained so there is no media library. I think this feature is a milestone. I hope this will be added in the near future.

[denvergeeks]

@fakruzaruret I understand and agree. Here is some more related discussion:

How do I insert an already existing image into another post?

This is just a workaround in the absence of a file manager feature like you are describing: Create one post (you can keep it as Unpublished) – I have one post named “Images” I use for this purpose – where you can upload and store all of your site’s images on that one post. Then when you want to know the URL to use an image later on within another post, just go to that “Images” post and right-click on the image and select “Copy image address” to copy the URL. Then you can paste that URL into an…

[biapar]

I agree with you.

[csgeek]

That’s good to know that it works but OMG that’s such a horrendous hack. I wish we could just upload assets to an image gallery and be able to reference them.

[TheChocolateLife]

I migrated a site off the maven network via Wordpress into Ghost and I can tell you that the hardest part of the migration was having to work with the image library. Tedious. Not fun.

I don’t have many repetitive visual elements in my Ghost site – thechocolatelife.com – so for me, snippets were/are the way to go.

What I did was create a draft post with all of the common elements, upload my library images, then assign them to snippets. This means I can add a library element to the current post using the /name convention without having to focus attention away from writing.

So much faster and easier, and I learned that having a naming convention provides assistance in navigating the snippets by arranging common elements in groups in the / dropdown.