pre-install question

It’s been a long time since I’ve tested the wp-offload thing, but last time I did, media cloud will use wp-offload’s metadata if it exists. I’ll test again over the weekend and let you know.

I’ve never used WPML, so I’m not sure. Not even sure how I would test that, tbh. If you can give me some steps to reproduce I can look into it though.

Ok. let me install your plugin on one of my sites and do a test with WPML, then I will let you know what happens. ?? Thank you for your quick answer! ?? awesome!

I just tested with Offload and it mostly works but there are some bugs, so I wouldn’t recommend the switch at the moment.

I’ve already fixed the bugs, but they won’t be available until next week sometime. I’m in the middle of preparing the 3.0 release of the plugin.

Hi! Thanks for the update ??
Ok I installed the plugin on a test site and overwrote the settings of offload media. It seemed to work, but I encountered the same error when using WPML.
Basically, I upload the image to the english version, everything gets uploaded to the cloud, all good, but then when I translate the page to Dutch, the image is not showing, the file name is there, but without image.
If I click on the filename, I see the link is local, so this is not uploaded to the cloud.

So I did some test.. changed in WPML to “not translate media” and tried again. This time, the image shows on both languages, but when I go to the media library in any language, the image is not there (however when I go on the page to the image it does find it somehow)

So I am very close to fixing it, I am just worried that with the image not showing in the media library in the long run it might become a problem.
I want to use your plugin also on another site I have that works with a feed import and I don’t want it to not “find” the image when it is already there…

Please let me know and thanks in advance for your help. I will make a generous donation.

Hiya, just a quick update. I also sent this question to WPML and they are looking to see if they can send you some advise on how to make this work.
I know offload has this same issue and is charging for the fix (you have to upgrade to be able to use it with WPML) so I imagine we can get many more users your way if we can get this fixed on your side.

Hello,

I’ve got some problems myself with wp-offload-media and WPML even though they say it is compatible.

I had a discussion with their developers, pointed some issues, and they managed to fix some bugs not long ago about this.

But here is what I know :

If you decide to not translate medias (and to not duplicate them when your insert a post), the media won’t be available in the translated language so first thing is you MUST duplicate medias to other language so they can be available in the translated language.

Then, if everything is fine, a “duplicate” will be created in the database. There won’t be 2 physical files but 2 attachment posts linking to the same file and, in the metadata of the duplicated attachment, there will be the ID of the original language attachement.

With this this meta information, wp-offload-media is able to recover the main language attachment and get its URL.

The very bad point about that is : If you have, let’s say, 5 languages on your site, wp-offload-media will count 5 activations down on your licence for each attachment, even though there is only one physical file moved to S3… I complained a little about that but they consider that is normal. So my very expensive license has already reached the limit because of this.

I’ve tried “Media cloud” and it is really an amazing plugin. Sadly, there is absolutely no WPML integration. I’ve actually started looking for writing it myself.

Some simple filters would do. I think it could fit in about 30-40 lines of code.

To the developer, don’t hesitate to contact me if I can help you build this integration or provide you with a WPML activation key ! That would be really awesome to make Media Cloud fully compatible with WPML.