Tell me what you dream of seeing in WordPress, whether your jokes or your most serious hopes, I'm not making product decisions so this doesn't constitute a promise, I just want to hear about it and get my brain back into that mode again :)
— Helen 侯-Sandí (@helenhousandi) September 8, 2020This is sort of tangental, but I'd love a form of the mobile app that acted exactly like Instagram, but posted to a WordPress blog.
— topher1kenobe (@topher1kenobe) September 9, 2020Pretty much. Maybe category. I've always imagined a single pic, rather than many. So I take the pic, put in title, optional desc, optional category, and hit send. If you want to get fancy you could use a Setting to use a custom post type instead of Post, but that's gravy.
— topher1kenobe (@topher1kenobe) September 9, 2020
For more details look at Micropub and WordPress: Custom Posting Applications. It uses the W3C Micropub recommended spec and most of the current clients are open source if anyone wants to build their own web or mobile interfaces.
Sunlit for iOS is a Micropub compatible app that supports photos. PhotoPostr looks promising too for photos and collections.
If you want to go crazy to support some of the other niceties on your site, add Simple Location plugin for showing GPS location and weather conditions and Post Kinds plugin for custom (and customizable) photo display (meant to be compatible with Micropub, but doesn’t have Gutenberg support).
Here’s an example photo from this morning: https://boffosocko.com/2020/09/09/55776473/
Naturally it’d be awesome to see Micropub support in core.
I just tried it, and it lacks title, categories, and Feature Image.
The “tags” field in the interface should map to either Categories, if they exist, or create a new tag. Most social posting interfaces (like Instagram) aren’t giving titles to photos, but descriptions or additional notes, which this should do. (It also supports alt tags, though I’m not sure if the WordPress implementation has been upgraded to match it.)
If there’s not a setting for adding it as a Featured photo instead of in the_body, we can file an issue to add such a setting.
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In fact, it looks like there’s an issue for the Featured Photo part already if you want to +1 or add a PR, which I’m sure would be welcome.
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I haven’t tried it, but it looks like the team tweaked the “featured photo” issue, so it should now be supported with a setting if you want to take another look.
Thanks for helping to improve the use case coverage.
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In the end, I think the point is less that “it should be possible to cobble together a solution that fits my specific need” and more of “It would be useful for the WordPress community at large to have a turnkey app that integrates natively for folks.”
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In fact, it looks like there’s an issue for the Featured Photo part already if you want to +1 or add a PR, which I’m sure would be welcome.
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