Ticks almost all the boxes!

  • Once you go thru the complex task of Oauth/API setup with Google, this really is quite a nice plugin. Presentation is good with EXIF comments displayed, and handling both photos and images (so few plugins nor WordPress do that well!) My complements to the author(s)!

    I also appreciate that it’s Open Source.And the management of media is far easier on Google Drive than in WordPress Media.

    But there are a few drawbacks with how it’s designed:
    0. Google Drive no longer allows “Public” access to drives. As a result, only named users/groups can access the drive. This was my showstopper.
    1. the EXIF comments are not searchable from WordPress, so individual photos cannot be found by description.
    2. Videos do not play on Firefox. I almost don’t care, but should mention it.
    3. Vulnerability of the site to outages and unaddressed configuration changes. From this perspective, self-hosted content is more reliable.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by t-p.
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  • Plugin Author Marek Dědi?

    (@marekdedic)

    Hi,
    thanks for the review!

    As for the drawbacks:
    0. You don’t need to set the Drive to public in order to use it as a gallery – it can be completely private only to you and the plugin still works – are you aware of this? So you only need to share the Drive to people that you want to be able to modify the gallery (add/remove images). Setting it to public would mean anyone on the internet can modify the gallery… I can’t think of a usecase, where you’d want this…

    1. That is correct. There is nothing we can realistically do about this.

    2. That might be a problem with formats – see the FAQ, we only support few formats at the moment.

    3. Do you mean vulnerability to outages of Google Drive? I seriously doubt your hosting is more reliable than Google ??

    Let us know if we can help you in any way…
    Marek

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