Going to raise this issue with the Checkout Field Editor team then.

Thanks!

Thanks for the reply
The database consumption of my site is not in the records: ast-block-templates_data and ast-block-templates-spectra-common-styles!
Rather, the following records occupy the database space

1	ast-block-templates-blocks-2	4846717
2	ast-block-templates-blocks-3	2768557
3	ast-block-templates-blocks-7	2661609
4	ast-block-templates-blocks-4	2229447
5	ast-block-templates-blocks-1	2016379
6	ast-block-templates-blocks-5	1796275
7	ast-block-templates-blocks-6	1536687
8	ast-block-templates-sites-1	196079
9	ast-block-templates-sites-4	184689
10	ast-block-templates-sites-5	169102
11	ast-block-templates-sites-3	162596
12	ast-block-templates-sites-2	157281
13	ast-block-templates-sites-6	84391

Can I delete ast-block-templates-blocks records?
Is there any problem?

Thanks

The philosophical reason for not having such functionality is that it is an “anti-pattern” that adds four layers of inefficiencies.

Think of it this way: to include a single photo, all you need to do is to include its URL in your page.

But if you want to use a plugin, first the block or shortcode has to be rendered (first inefficiency), then your server makes a call to Google to get the media item’s base URL (second inefficiency, which adds a high amount of time to the process), then that is rendered in your markup (third inefficiency), then the base URL is translated by Google on the fly (fourth inefficiency, which adds as much time as the second). Note that Google Photos’ API does not give you the URL, so the fourth inefficiency cannot be avoided. Contrast this to the simple method of directly including the photo’s URL – none of the above four inefficiencies come into the picture.

Photonic is written to do things that cannot be done easily, so it supports albums etc. Single photos don’t meet this criteria, so such functionality anyway doesn’t meet the cut.

My suggestion would be to directly use the URL instead of trying to do all of this using a plugin.

Is there any update on this?

I’ve successfully connected everything, and my products appear on the site, but they’re not loading into my merchant page for linking. I’ve tried clearing the cache, disconnecting and reconnecting, but no luck. During setup, clicking “Load Products from WooCommerce” just redirects me to the WordPress plugin page.

Link to image:

https://ibb.co/vh5c9R2