Different form for posting and editing

So if you could upload in different directly at the first place, would you still be changing the form?

Of course this is a painful workaround and uploading into a custom directory would be the ideal scenario. There would be no need for a second form if this could be solved in the first step of submitting. Would you have any solution to this?

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Tareq, I am about to lock myself in into the work around solution unless you have some news for me. What did you have in mind?

Try this code:

[php]
function wpufe_change_upload_dir( $upload ) {

$subdir = ‘/my_uploads’;
$upload[‘path’] = $upload[‘basedir’] . $subdir;
$upload[‘url’] = $upload[‘baseurl’] . $subdir;

return $upload;
}

function wpufe_add_filter_change_upload_dir() {
add_filter( ‘upload_dir’, ‘wpufe_change_upload_dir’ );
}

add_action( ‘wp_ajax_wpuf_file_upload’, ‘wpufe_add_filter_change_upload_dir’, 9 );
add_action( ‘wp_ajax_nopriv_wpuf_file_upload’, ‘wpufe_add_filter_change_upload_dir’, 9);
[/php]

Paste this on your themes functions.php and it’ll change WPUF’s upload dir to /wp-content/uploads/my_uploads. Make the directory first.

I am using a dynamic population based on custom post type. So each post type should have its own folder and each author has a folder within that post type folder. Uploading images into one folder only will create a huge mess on a large site, especially with the thumbnails.

I will pass on the code however, maybe there is something we can use from it.

Thanks for the help. If there anything you can add to identify the post id to know how to assign author name or user id along with the post type it would be awesome…

Currently it’s not possible to guess the post type as when you upload a photo for a post, the post is not created yet. So we don’t know what post type it is uploading for. In admin panel, it can be guessed, but not in frontend.

So I guess I am back to the problem with the two editing forms or to hiding image fields on submission and showing the image fields on editing….

Ha ha, okay.

Here’s the example: http://wedevs.com/support/topic/hide-fields-in-edit-form/#post-6886

Cool. Will try that. Thanks a lot.

FYI – we were able to fix it by attaching the upload directory to the current user role as this is available in our particular case

Glad to know that.