Developer Note: Image widget when prefixing the path with "assets"

[jamestagal]

Hi all,

I just wanted to bring to your attention a note about the image widget in the Plenti CMS. By design, the CMS 'discovers' your images when the source is prefixed with the path assets in your JSON data source not in the HTML template as follows:
JSON

  "image": {
        "source": "assets/post-1.jpeg",
    },

HTML

<img src="{image.source}" alt="{image.alt}" class="img-fluid w-100">

RESULT

If on the other hand you wanted to describe an image path in text and not have the image widget, you would do the opposite.
JSON

  "image": {
        "source": "post-1.jpeg",
    },

HTML

<img src="assets/{image.source}" alt="{image.alt}" class="img-fluid w-100">

RESULT

See a discussion on this topic. A case when image picker not being handled in CMS #253

Ben

[jimafisk]

This is great @jamestagal, thanks for adding the guide! One quick note, the v0.6.x release is coming out very soon and we're changing /assets/ to /media/.