Advanced Image Management and Display for Genesis

[eluviis]

I love Genesis and I love WordPress... However, I've always felt both could use a better image management and display system. WordPress out of the box, needs it. Genesis simply doesn't have it.

I'm sure there must be some powerful plugin for image management but I haven't found one yet. Really wish Genesis had all the extra functionality.

The ways images are uploaded, stored and saved with metadata is pretty much OK. But I wish there was more functionality for image display.

Things I would love to see:

Options for image arrangement in posts:
- Options for galleries
- Options for tiled mosaics
- Options for lightboxes
- Options for captions.
- Options for displaying images with a link to view larger (or lack thereof).

The reason I would love it if Genesis had these options is we wouldn't have to rely on plugins. And so far, I haven't found a single plugin - paid or free- that offers all this functionality. I find myself loading one plugin for a lightbox, then another for image display (tiled images) and I'm still not fully happy with either. I always find there must be a better way to have options on how to display images on our posts.

Because my website is very image-driven, I find some posts benefit from large images that expand the full length of the column (740px in my case) and some posts benefit from thumbnails, or a combination of both. Some posts benefit from links to larger images and some are OK with the main width as the biggest size available. I also find WordPress image resizing yields images that are not as nice as my resized images in Photoshop. So sometimes I end up uploaded separate images for both the main image and the lightbox zoom image and linking them manually. But that creates other problems because of course each of the individual images gets crunched yielding even more files in the background.

What do you do for image management? What plugins do you use? Any tips and recommendations for me and other Genesis users with similar problems?

[Brad Dalton]

The native gallery offers these features and you can extend further with Jetpack

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[eluviis]

Hi Brad, yeah, I still think there's lots of room for improvement. That's the main reason for the post. I guess I wish Genesis would hone in more on image options and functionality. To give you an example, captions for me, on Genesis, don't work responsively (Minimum Theme).

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