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Started 1 year ago by chaosratt
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chaosratt
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How difficult would it be to get PhotoQ to integrate fully into Wordpress's built-in media library, rather than storing its data/images in other (read:non-standard) locations?

The reason I ask, I'm having difficulty getting a CDN plug-in to integrate properly because PhotoQ stores all its images/data outside the main media folders, and the CDN plug-in watches these folders and the library itself for updates. The result of this is that new PhotoQ posts do not get uploaded to the CDN. The only way around this is for the CDN plug-in to regularly scan PhotoQ's folders (/main and /original) for any changes/updates. This is very intensive work and wastes a lot of bandwidth (which you pay for with a CDN) when each item has to be cross-checked.

Posted 1 year ago #
whoismanu
Key Master

i am currently working on improving integration of photoq and wordpress to get custom post types and taxonomies working. i will look at the same time into whether i can find a way to provide tighter integration with the media library.

do you happen to know how your plugin "watches these folders and the library"? or could you give me a link to the plugin, so i can try to see? thanks.

Posted 1 year ago #
chaosratt
Member

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

I contacted the author already, there is no API or corn system to manually notify it of updates (figured I could poke it via the cron that triggeres PhotoQ's scheduled posts). The author had several derogatory comments about photo/image plug-ins that don't use wordpress' media library.

Posted 1 year ago #
whoismanu
Key Master

thanks for your answer, i will have a look at this plugin.

regarding the "derogatory comments" :-), i can understand them to some extent. that is also why i want to be a better citizen in this respect and have a tighter integration in the future. it is certainly photoq's philosophy to take advantage of the wordpress standard procedures whenever possible. in this case, however, there simply was no media library or a corresponding api around when photoq was designed. otherwise i would have taken advantage of it from start.

Posted 1 year ago #
chaosratt
Member

Well that certainly makes sense.
If you make any progress and you need someone to guinea-pig new versions for you, I gladly volunteer. My site likely wouldn't exist in its current form without your plug-in :P

Posted 1 year ago #
whoismanu
Key Master

sure, that would be great. i will get back to you as soon as i have something ready.

Posted 1 year ago #
chaosratt
Member

Please email me when you have something ready, I don't check these forums all the time and I cant seem to find any kind of notification or tracking feature :(

Posted 1 year ago #

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