Can it work alongside the Cloudinary plugin?

  • Resolved parakeet

    (@parakeet)


    4 years ago

    What would happen if you had this plugin (pro version) and Cloudinary’s WP plugin both active?

    https://cloudinary.com/documentation/wordpress_integration
    https://support.cloudinary.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017521280-WordPress-Plugin-Overview

    I’d be intrigued to backup/offload media to two locations – S3 and Cloudinary. Maybe, in time, I’d want to switch between them for some reason. It would be nice to think there is parity between the image sets, and that I could just flip a switch to serve them from one or the other.

    But I fear they won’t play nicely together…
    I mean, WordPress must only serve the image from one place, right?

    I wonder what would happen on addition of a new image, as well – would it go to both destinations?

    Looks like Cloudinary’s plugin has the following settings which may be relevant:
    – Sync method Auto/Manual.
    – Enable external assets (“sync assets from specific external sources with Cloudinary”).
    – Storage: “Cloudinary and WordPress”, “Cloudinary and WordPress (low resolution)”, “Cloudinary only”.

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  • Thread Starter parakeet

    (@parakeet)

    4 years ago

    In fact, similar question regarding use of the multiple clouds just within the scope of this plugin alone…

    Does the plugin support upload to multiple of the clouds, or just a single one?

    Thread Starter parakeet

    (@parakeet)

    4 years ago

    Bonus question #2…

    I’ve now already synced my Media Library from WP to Cloudinary (but not yet deleted media from the site).

    If I go ahead and delete everything, such that it’s all served from Cloudinary, but then I want to switch to your plugin in order to offload to S3, do you think I would have to restore all the files to the WP site first, or do you think your plugin can move them from Cloudinary to S3 direct?

    It’s not that direct Cloudinary-to-S3 integration would be required. Maybe it’s a matter of URL-to-S3 instead?

    Plugin Author Delicious Brains

    (@deliciousbrains)

    4 years ago

    But I fear they won’t play nicely together…
    I mean, WordPress must only serve the image from one place, right?

    This is the problem in a nutshell, if both plugins have remote versions they can rewrite the local URLs to, and both are actively trying to, which wins?

    I wonder what would happen on addition of a new image, as well – would it go to both destinations?

    If both plugins are active and leave the local files alone, hopefully you’d just get one offloading before the other without any problem. But that’s a big “hopefully” as I don’t know whether Cloudinary changes metadata etc.

    Does the plugin support upload to multiple of the clouds, or just a single one?

    WP Offload Media currently only supports offloading to a single storage provider. It can however offload to different buckets if filters are implemented, e.g. “send my large videos to this other bucket with cheaper storage class”.

    If I go ahead and delete everything, such that it’s all served from Cloudinary, but then I want to switch to your plugin in order to offload to S3, do you think I would have to restore all the files to the WP site first, or do you think your plugin can move them from Cloudinary to S3 direct?

    It’s not that direct Cloudinary-to-S3 integration would be required. Maybe it’s a matter of URL-to-S3 instead?

    If Cloudinary offloads to S3 with a consistent predictable path, e.g. “wp-content/uploads/YYYY/MM/file.png”, then you can use WP Offload Media’s “Add Metadata” tool to “adopt” the S3 objects.

    https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-offload-media/doc/add-metadata-tool/

    If Cloudinary instead adds dynamic segments to the path, just like our “Object Versioning” setting does for CDN cache busting, then you’ll need to download back to the server before WP Offload Media can re-offload to S3.

    -IJ

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