I’ll make no apologies for it. I love the bizarre community at deviantART, but the weird and arbitrary nature of the site design does test me at times. Inconsistency is only bearable to a point. Eventually, a rational being is likely to just throw up their proboscises and try something — anything — else.
The deviantART journal recently began to weigh on me in this manner. I started a mental list: weird RSS feeds, weird layout, weird editing. Eventually, enough was enough — time to act!
So, acting completely rationally, I wasted a whole lot of time installing WordPress on my server this weekend. Or, rather, trying to get image handling to work properly.
It is my — apparently mad — belief that WordPress should support these actions:
- Accept an image.
- Generate a thumbnail from that image.
- Allow the use of the generated thumbnail in a post.
This should not be difficult to accomplish. However, for my life, I can find no support for this capability in the default installation or any plugin. Is this desire so unreasonable?
(Ah, well. Take a look at those full-blown RSS feeds!)