John Teague

This may be a problem with the latest version of Chrome, as a client just reported that the form does send correctly on her version of Firefox. I didn’t note any errors in Chrome console. Perhaps a JS issue?

@ciricaki

This explain all method you can use to access objects in a bucket. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/

Making the bucket publicly available isn’t the same as giving a directory on a webserver unrestricted permissions. It just opens an external path to write your files from the credentialed external source, in this case your WordPress instance defined location, and read access with known URLs that match a filename, which you can do with an uploads folder already.

@circaki33

Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/making-data-public for instructions on how to make your files publicly available. For serving static content like uploads images, videos, and documents like you would with WP media library files, you will need to make the files publicly available. I hope this helps.

@newstube

This plugin was designed to run on WordPress sites installed inside the Google Cloud Platform environment. So, it won’t connect properly without modifications. The author is working on some things to make the easier to understand. But for now, you might want to explore an alternative if you are not installed in the Google Cloud… Although I would highly recommend them.

@takashimatsuo

Perfect. I’ll drop by and assist with the docs and such. Look forward to that. ??

@takashimatsuo I was working on a write up that covers some of this. If you would like Id be happy to collaborate on the plugin docs, etc. I do have a current CLA with Google, and my company is a GCP customer. Don’t want to intrude though, so please let me know.

Quick couple of answers. When you create your cloud account and project, it will create a default service account.

Your project needs to have Google storage APIs enabled, which you can do through GCP Console.

Your Storage Bucket must have permissions set to “Share Publicly”. You can also set that on the storage bucket you created.

I’m still working on the full how to post, but hope this helps.

Hey @dnowba, @ciricaki33, guys, I am working on a write up for this. Please be patient as I have to do this when I get some spare time outside of work hours. But I will post a write up as a blog post and then post a link here tonight (I’m in the U.S. Central Time Zone). It will include all the settings you need to get you set up correctly and some other options to get connected as a fallback.

Cheers,

John

Hey guys, I’m reaching out to the plugin authors over at Google since I run a hosting company on GCP to see if I can help write some documentation for the plugin and clean up some installation help.

I’ll follow up with you tomorrow as it is late here right now, but the short version is that you need to have need to create a Google Cloud account and a project. The how to for that are here:

1. https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects
2. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/how-to

When you create a project, it will assign an ID for it. That is what the plugin is asking for. This plugin really should validate without throwing a Fatal error. We’ll work on that. But this should help get your started. I hope this helps some until I can or the authors can do a more full installation how to.

I tend to pay almost no attention to 1 star ratings on popular plugins as they nearly always lack specificity or are related to issues beyond the plugin, like poorly resourced or configured hosting, conflicts with poorly coded themes and plugins, etc. Then there are the small percentage of trolls.

To be sure, there are plugins that deserve low ratings because they DON’T provide rapid bug and security fixes, or poorly support their product.

But with scores of clients using this plugin, I can say without any reservations that Easy Digital Downloads is not one of them.

The reason why the author chose to add support for Google API auth is because it would be needed if you adapt the plugin into a theme options panel. It works great for doing things like previewing fonts selected and for a host of other reasons.

Besides, if you can’t take five minutes to create a simple API key over at Google, then you are too lazy to appreciate the real benefits involved. Webbeetle, did you whine as much over at Twitter when they made you get an API key?

Giving the developer of this plugin low marks because you are too lazy to appreciate the features you would get in return is a sad reflection on your inability to be fair, while reinforcing your obvious ignorance. BY all means, continue to grab everything you can for free like Googles font colections, while tuning your tin foil hat and dodging of black helicopters. Geesh!

Just replying from the Avada forum as I noticed you had also posted here. If your wp-config.php file is set to read only (400 or 440) no script within wordpress would overwrite the file.

The only way that can happen is if you as the file owner set permissions so you can edit the file, or if the host is restoring files from backup. But I can’t think of an instance where a web host would restore only a single file, and I can’t imagine why they would restore an entire backup unless you asked them to.

On the outside chance that this is being caused by a script within your instance of WordPress, it might be good to know what plugins you have installed, if any.

I wish I could be of more help, but what you are experiencing makes no sense to me.

Thanks Michael. It will indeed indeed.