# Sitewide Assets **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [July 16, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252 "2008-07-16T19:15:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joshs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252/1 "2008-07-16T19:15:18Z")
How do people handle site-wide assets like background images? I’d like to keep everything about the site able to be uploaded/changed. I’ve got the page\_attachments extension, but that seems like it’s only applicable to individual pages. I’ve looked at something like the paperclipped, but that seems to overwrite some of the page attachments functionality. > **[GitHub - kbingman/paperclipped: Please note, this extension is no longer being...](https://github.com/kbingman/paperclipped/tree/master)** > > master I’d like to use page\_attachments, so what work-arounds are possible for sitewide stuff, outside of having to deploy them in public/images/\*? Regards, Josh ---
**Author:** ![joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joshs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252/2 "2008-07-16T19:27:00Z")
There my be an easier way to do this but I use the \ tag to discover the actual location of the image. Then if I want, > I can use that information in my css file. Steven ---
**Author:** ![joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joshs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252/3 "2008-07-16T19:31:05Z")
Sean, That seems easy enough, I assume then that you are not using the Scripts N Styles extension then? Maybe that’s the extension that needs to be written, making page\_attachments work with scripts/n/ styles. I know SNS has a more ‘pluggable’ interface now. Josh ---
**Author:** ![joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joshs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252/4 "2008-07-16T19:27:35Z")
Josh, Since things like background images are generally applied with CSS, I like to store my CSS in a Radiant page and then attach the images to that CSS page. Sean ---
**Author:** ![joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joshs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252/5 "2008-07-16T19:35:46Z")
Josh, Although I like what Chris has done, I haven’t had a need for SNS yet. I may in the near future, as I potentially have more than one Radiant project on my plate soon. Sean ---
**Author:** ![joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joshs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252/6 "2008-07-16T19:49:50Z")
Ok, that’s twice in one week (Jim G. just asked for the same thing). I don’t think this tag belongs in SnS since it depends on Page Attachments too but a new extension for it might be nice. Anyone willing to whip up a mini-extension that simply adds the necessary image tags to the Stylesheet object? I don’t imagine there’d be much there to do – I’m just not familiar enough with Page Attachments to know its tags? Otherwise I’ll look into it in a couple of days. -Chris ---
**Author:** ![joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joshs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252/7 "2008-07-16T20:07:59Z")
I’ve been thinking I’d try to tackle it, but I’m swamped and I’d love to see it started. ---
**Author:** ![joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joshs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252/8 "2008-07-16T21:27:05Z")
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:59 PM, J Aaron F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Assets extension though. > We wrote a dead simple assets extension a little while ago. It just lets > you > to upload files directly into radiant’s public directory. We use > page\_attachments for almost everything but it has been handy for pushing > out > downloadable files, third party scripts, and other files that we don’t > want > to exist under the page\_attachements/dddd/dddd structure. Would this be > of > interest to anyone else? Cheers, Stephen ---
**Author:** ![joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joshs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252/9 "2008-07-16T21:00:09Z")
Josh S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > How do people handle site-wide assets like background images? I’d > like to keep everything about the site able to be uploaded/changed. > I’ve got the page\_attachments extension, but that seems like it’s only > applicable to individual pages. I started created a generic “Assets” extension for this purpose but ended up just using the Gallery extension. I’d still prefer a simple Assets extension though. – J Aaron F. [jadetower.com](http://jadetower.com) [US] +1 724-964-4515 馮傑仁 [cubiclemuses.com](http://cubiclemuses.com) [HK] +852 8123-7905 ---
**Author:** ![joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joshs)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252/10 "2008-07-17T00:01:52Z")
I would love to see it. Regards, Josh ---
**Author:** ![joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@joshs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joshs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sitewide-assets/143252/11 "2008-07-16T21:27:41Z")
Paperclipped is intended to replace page\_attachments, I wouldn’t use both at the same time. I wanted to use something other than attachment\_fu, so I wrote with different functionality than either gallery or page\_attachments. I hope that it offers something that these do extensions do not. I actually use all three. There are several ways you could use page\_attachments with site wide images. Sean’s suggestion would be the easiest. Paperclipped uses the same file structure as paperclipped (as I had started using attachment\_fu), so it is easy to switch if you wish. You could also add a tab to page\_attachments, gaining acces to all the uploaded images images… Regards, Keith