Changing how GeoDirectory stores and handles images

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    Dale Reardon
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    Hi,
    I have just become aware that GeoDirectory V2 does not store all uploaded images in the WP media library. This has completely ruined my plans for image processing and handling.

    I need to use the Cloudinary service to offload storage of all the images for processing – Cloudinary has integrations with CDN, AI to add alt text automatically, AI to add captions to videos automatically and much more.

    The Cloudinary plugin works with the WP media library to handle all the images automatically.

    Even if don’t use Cloudinary I would want to use the Offload Media (formerly Offload S3) plugin to store them all on Amazon S3 for cheaper storage costs – adding more space to my server account is way more expensive.

    And Cloudflare CDN doesn’t work automatically with the uploads directory – I know you can adjust some settings to fix that.

    Would it be possible to pay a third party developer to change how GD handles images
    and use the WP media library? I am guessing there is so much inbuilt core co codethat would be affected such that it would really need to be the core GD team that made this change.

    Would it be possible to pay the core GD team to add an option to use the media library for image storage?

    Another advantage of using the media library with Cloudinary is that you can let people upload videos and Cloudinary transcodes them from the WP media library and handles all the playback automatically.

    Thanks,
    Dale.

    #535069

    Alex Rollin
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    Post count: 27815

    Hello,

    foregoing the media library is the policy – at least until WP changes significantly.

    Two reasons –

    1. Security – no built in fallback policies for restricting users to their own items

    2. Usability – 50k images in the library makes it hard to use.

    3. Speed & Scalability – The Media Library can slow things down.

    GDV2 handles images in the WP way, so, a good CDN can rewrite the URLs as needed.

    If you need hands on help to go forward you can contact GD Experts who can do the job here:

    https://geodirectoryexperts.com/

    Unfortunately we are unable to help with customizations, paid or unpaid, here in the forum.

    #535073

    Dale Reardon
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    Post count: 4

    Hi,

    What do you mean by:

    GDV2 handles images in the WP way, so, a good CDN can rewrite the URLs as needed.

    In the WP way would mean using the media library would it not?

    And the other issues are all easily overcome by a permissions plugin and a plugin such as enhanced media library that we use to categorise the media library, list items by user, tag, category etc.

    It is just the storage and processing of images through a service such as AWS or Cloudinary that will be quite difficult I imagine.

    Dale.

    #535076

    Alex Rollin
    Moderator
    Post count: 27815

    No, I refer to WP responsive image handling, described here:

    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/design/images/

    Many members use image CDNs and optimizers. The only place we have run into real issues is competing lazy-load functionality, which should be relieved soon by native browser support.

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