Cloudinary

Hi,

You can utilize images from your Cloudinary’s account as featured images.

Please follow the instructions as described here:
https://support.cloudinary.com/entries/23422432-How-can-I-utilize-images-uploaded-to-Cloudinary-as-featured-images-

In the future, we are planning to support this inherently via an “insert into gallery” button.

Hi,

The reason for this behavior is that you have a theme called “Sterling” that uses a plugin called “timthumb” which interferes with our Add-on.

You are welcome to send us your theme and we’ll try to figure out a solution for you.

In the meanwhile, until we find a better solution, please see if you can find a way to disable the “timthumb” plugin

Hi,

Yes, There’s a way to do this.

Please follow the instructions as described here:
https://support.cloudinary.com/entries/23422432-How-can-I-utilize-images-uploaded-to-Cloudinary-as-featured-images-

In the future, we are planning to support this inherently via an “insert into gallery” button.

Hi,

Thank you for your questions:

1. Cloudinary automatically optimizes PNG and JPG images in order to minimize their size and optimize performance. This means that you don’t need Smush.it if you are using Cloudinary.

2. All images and transformed images you add to your posts and pages using Cloudinary are delivered through a fast CDN (Akamai). No need to configure another CDN layer.

3. Cloudinary’s WordPress plugin currently takes care only of images. Static files (e.g., Javascript, CSS) are currently not handled. You can use jsDelivr for delivering your JS & CSS files through a CDN. However, we haven’t tested yet if there are any conflicts between jsDelivr and Cloudinary’s plugin.

Thanks!

@brashrebel: v1.0.8 creates WP media items for existing images you upload to Cloudinary through WordPress default media library web interface by clicking on the “Upload to cloudinary”.
The previous version of the plugin created WP media items only for images inserted into posts of pages.

This issue was already fixed in previous versions of the plugin. Marking this topic as resolved.

This issue was already fixed in previous versions of the plugin. Marking this topic as resolved.

You don’t need to create a custom transformation for each image size.

Cloudinary automatically computes the required image size and performs dynamic cloud-based resizing on demand.

Hi,
Thank you for reporting this issue.

A browser session is indeed maintained while performing sign-in to Cloudinary through the WordPress plugin.

We will look into it and update you when we have a solution.

Currently, you should make sure not to work simultaneously on multiple WP sites from the same browser.

Thanks!

Since v1.0.6 of the plugin, you can use Cloudinary’s images as featured images.

Setting an image as a featured image is done using WP standard media library interface, which now lists both local media items and cloud-based images uploaded, transformed and delivered by Cloudinary.

WP media items are automatically created for images inserted by Cloudinary to your posts (you need to save a draft of your post to see the newly uploaded images in the ‘Set featured image’ dialog).

If you upgrade to the latest release of the plugin (v1.0.8), uploading existing local images from WP media library now automatically creates cloud-based media items that you can use for selecting as featured images.

Hi,

Currently, you can upload all existing images to Cloudinary by going to the local media library of WordPress and click on Upload to Cloudinary or select multiple images and then select Upload to Cloudinary from the Bulk Actions menu.

However, posts and pages are not automatically updated to reference images of Cloudinary. Currently you need to edit your posts, and replace the images with their copy that you uploaded to Cloudinary. It is in our road-map to enhance the migration capabilities of the plugin.

All images uploaded to your Cloudinary’s account and transformed images generated by Cloudinary are available for download at any time. For our paid plans, you can enable automatic backup of all uploaded images to an Amazon S3 bucket owned by you. Automatically migrating existing posts and pages to stop referencing cloud-based images is currently not supported.

Thanks!

@brashrebel: Setting an image as a featured image is done using WP standard media library interface, which lists both local media items and cloud-based images uploaded, transformed and delivered by Cloudinary.

WP media items are automatically created for images inserted by Cloudinary to your posts (you need to save a draft of your post to see the newly uploaded images in the ‘Set featured image’ dialog).

If you upgrade to the latest release of the plugin (v1.0.8), uploading existing local images from WP media library now automatically creates cloud-based media items that you can use for selecting as featured images.

Hi Paolo,

Version 1.0.6 of the plugin that was just released supports featured images.

WordPress media items are now created also for attachments of images generated by Cloudinary. The media items link to the remote cloud-based images and can be used for featured images and galleries. Note that you will need to save a draft of your post in order to see newly attached images available in the featured image selection dialog.

Please let us know if it works for you.

Thanks!

Hi Paolo,

We are working on enhancing Cloudinary’s WordPress plugin to support featured images and WordPress image galleries.

It should be available in the next few days. We will update you when it’s ready.

Thanks!

Thank you for your feedback.

It is in our road-map for the near future to improve custom coordinates based cropping to use an interactive cropping user interface in addition to the low-level approach currently available. We would be happy to update you when it is ready.

Currently you can benefit from our face-detection based cropping. For example:

Original image:
https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/face_left.jpg

Auto cropped:
https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_150,h_180,c_thumb,g_face,r_20/face_left.jpg

Thanks!