WP Plugin for Images on Left and Content on Right?

Why do you need a plugin?

Insert the image into the post, set it to align left, type the content, rinse and repeat.

In your stylesheet, set the aligned images to float left and clear both, with some padding on top to provide some separation above the previous entry.

Or you could add a custom post type that uses text and a featured image; they would type in the text, load the image, go on to the next one. If you set the custom post type up as a page, with page attributes, you can use page order to order the results in the query that pulls the content.

EDIT: I suppose the custom post type suggestion could be turned into a plugin, maybe using shortcode to display on the desired page.

So you basically want to edit the content of one page/post entry through a plugin, keyed visually to the thumbnail image?

Correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but wouldn't the plugin 'admin' have to show those hundreds of image/text combos also? That would make for one long-ass admin page - that could also take quite a while to load, if it has to display all of the images.

A couple of points:

• you can control how many post listings are shown on the 'All posts' landing page through the click-open options panel at the top of the page. I think the current max is 200.
• A custom post type doesn't jack up the permalink structure. The only time a custom permalink structure is needed is if the custom type needs to be shown as a single entry, with a custom prefix.

All of this is moot, though, if your client absolutely needs visual aids to determine what description to edit.

Marty (I'm assuming that's your name, from your sig), I'm going to give one last shot at trying to keep you from reinventing the wheel - no more, I promise

You mentioned in your last post that the images and descriptions are split up into separate pages ( "only images and descriptions for a particular page" ). That means that there is obviously some sort of taxonomy being applied - date, publication type, or even a combination of several taxonomies.

You have discreet chunks of data - let's call them publications - that each have their own discreet components: date, image, description, buy button. Right now, you have no way of organizing that data. You build a page by building a table of these publications, pasting the image, description, and button in where they're supposed to be, with the page being those publications produced in a certain year. Do I have that right?

What if, at some point, your client wants to rearrange the publication list by grouping them in, let's say, publication types like books, teleseminars, etc. It couldn't be done without doing the copy/paste thing into new pages, which would take forever.

These publications and their associated data are what databases do best - store and retrieve discreet data bits based on certain criteria.

You can do this with WordPress with a custom post type and custom taxonomy, and still satisfy your client's need for visual cues by adding the featured image thumbnail to the column display in the backend. They would be able to filter the publications by taxonomy (category), be able to quickly edit the description through the Quick Edit function. They would be able to easily add new publications without having to know anything about HTML, CSS, dogs and cats, or chimpanzees. If they can edit a post, they can manage their content easily.

YOU would then be able to display the publications based on whatever criteria you choose - pub date, taxonomy, artist, author, whatever - just by some simple changes to the selection function that spits out the publication list.

And this functionality could easily be packaged in a plugin so it would not be theme-dependent.

OK, pitch over