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New: Photos for Blogs - Beta

Greetings Members,

Now available for Premium Members+: Photos for Book Entries!

After adding an entry or chapter to a book, you can click the Add Photos link to quickly and easily add photos directly to that entry/chapter. While this can be used for any type of Book Item, it is particularly handy for "Photo Blogging"; the act of blogging through photos.

Once you've added photos, they'll be tagged to the end of the entry. If you wish to embed them somewhere within the entry, just use the {sphoto:}, {mphoto:} or {lphoto:} WritingML to add them. When the system sees that you've embedded a photo in that entry, it will not tag that photo to the end of the entry.

Photos added to book items count toward your total photo storage space.
(For Premium that is 500 photos -- just increased from 250! And remember, photos do NOT count as items; photo space is "on top of" your portfolio item space.)

Todo: Better management of the photos added to entries, like the management system in Photo Album items themselves

As always, I welcome your feedback, suggestions, etc for this new feature.

Please note this is a beta release for additional testing by members that use it. I've been playing with this feature for a few months with my personal blog, so I'm fairly confident there are no terrible bugs, there are probably things that have been overlooked to date.

On a personal note, as I've found myself with less and less (and less) time, I've turned to posting photos in my blog to preserve those memories I might otherwise not have time to write about. So, when time is a factor, a picture is worth a lot more words than no words at all. When you just don't have the time to write, blog a photo!

Best wishes,
~~SM