Andy Potanin

Oh, but thanks for the fair rating, glad to see our efforts of creating plugins for the WordPress community are appreciated!

The URLs are left behind on purpose since they are referencing media assets that are stored in a Google Cloud Storage bucket which is most likely more reliable than your average web host.

If all the URLs changed every time you deactivate the plugin it would defeat the purpose of having your media stored outside of your server and cause a lot of issue on large sites which would have to update tens of thousands of pages, purge cache, etc.

This plugin is made for larger (professionally managed) sites where performance and reliability are important – and plugins are not arbitrarily deactivated on a production site.

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by Andy Potanin.

Edward,

There was a fault in our QA process that is being addressed now.

The reason we added this is because we have been getting ready to work on a few premium features (such as doing bulk synchronization in the background, so the browser can be closed, and other automation tools).

We have a few features that are being requested, and we need to be able to offset the development costs. Because, after all, we are a commercial organization.

Hope that clears it up, and my apologies for the confusion.

Apologies for this! We’re moving all of our documentation to GitHub Pages and looks like we’ve missed a few redirection links!

https://wp-invoice.github.io

– https://wp-invoice.github.io/docs/empty-blank-invoice-page-or-just-wp-invoice-instead-of-invoice-in-wp-invoice-plugin
– https://wp-invoice.github.io/docs/wp-invoice-plugin-just-shortcode-on-the-page/

I hope that helps!

Thank you!

Also, feel free to reach out if you need any custom high-end WordPress work – that’s what we do for a living.

I see your point. So, if we implement this media-item whitelisting/exclusion, will we have a five-star product?

By the way, the reason we haven’t so far is because we believe its really important for plugin developers to use the media library “properly” so that we can continue in our efforts of making WordPress act like a true Twelve-Factor App, something we care about since we host a lot of larger sites, which need to run on horizontally scalable servers and having plugins add media that can’t be stored outside of the server/container, adds a lot of overhead to maintaining scalability.

Rick,

I’m going to reach out to you to get this taken care of, since pre-2.0 is a long time ago, I’d like to get clarification on what exactly you’re trying to manage.

I’m going to send you an e-mail to the address we have – if you don’t see an e-mail from me within a few minutes, please use https://www.usabilitydynamics.com/contact-us to send a message.

Thanks!

Google is a great company, we use many of their products from our hosting to our e-mail, as do many others. However, in this case I believe we have much more relevant experience with WordPress. We work with WordPress every single day. We made this plugin because we needed it and we were fairly certain that many others would as well.

It’s up to you to decide which plugin is better. But my personal opinion that its always better to use software made by people who use that very same software.

Can you specify which version of PHP you have now that’s causing the error? Also, the OS and any other server details. Our servers run in PHP7 and we typically test between PHP 5.3 – 7.1, and have not had any fatal activation errors reported.

The error log would help as well.

In the cases where the PDF files are synchronized to GCS – where do you see the old URLs leading to your server? Is it embedded within post body content?

Thank you very much! We’re always interested in your feedback, so if you do come across something you’d like improved, consider adding your idea/suggestion to https://feedback.usabilitydynamics.com/forums/95259-wp-property.

Thanks!

Yes.

The best way to avoid confusion is to set the “Root Directory” option under Settings > Media. That directory is the base directory in the GCS bucket for this site. So, each site can have its own base-directory/prefix by setting that field.

It’s worth nothing that you could also enable the “Randomize the filename of newly uploaded media files.” option and all uploaded files will be prefixed with a random hash, allowing you to store all of your upload directories in one bucket and being assured that the odds of having duplicate filenames is near infinite.

Thank you for the kind words!

This definitely sounds like something that will need to be investigated… I hope you don’t mind, but I moved your feedback and notes over to https://github.com/wpCloud/wp-stateless/issues/116 where we will be able to work the issue better.

That being said, wp-stateless is compatible with 4.8. We have not had a release in some time because we’ve been working on integrating a very nice “Setup Assistant” to help people walk through connecting to Google, creating a project, creating a bucket, setting up a service account, etc. We will have a release within two weeks, perhaps a little sooner.

You can segment customers (who are also created as users with a low role) as needed, there’s a fairly robust system for creating custom attributes and pre-defined fields. There’s also a descent system of filtering them to create lists in the admin.

The “lead management” system is rather simple – inquiries received via “forms” are available in the control panel, and you can filter inquiries by forms that were used to submit them – as a way of segmenting messages. However, you could even assign new people a role of “lead”, or something similar, based on the form they fill out.

As far as analysis and internal/external lead assignments – not something that’s built in. If this something you need, we could collaborate on creating something – there’s definitely a need for this. If you want to talk details send me a message at https://www.usabilitydynamics.com/contact-us and we can go from there.

@angrywarrior in general yes, but if there’s a particular use-case you are asking about I could get some more information about it.

For instance, are you looking for certain settings to be network/site-wide or blog-specific? Right now I believe the settings (options) are blog-specific.