For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a web application that’s being built on top of WordPress.

One of the requirements dictated the users should be able to have rich editing from the front end after being logged in. This includes being able to do the usual bold, italic, strikes, and link, as well as images and videos.

Redactor.js is a fantastic jQuery plugin that brings front-end editing to any website or web application, but implementing Redactor JS image upload and WordPress proved to be a bit of a challenge specifically because I wanted to keep all images organized in the standard wp-content/uploads directory.

So, while working on said project, I also generalized the script a bit and created Redactor Image Upload For WordPress.

It’s a short, simple title, right? Right-ish.

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