mattgates

Sucks that this was the only plugin that worked for me and all posts are repeating themselves with no way to change it. Hope for a fix.

Hey Mika,

I definitely get your frustrations just the same! Especially when you are testing.. and there is clearly no viable solution. And no support to help, either, despite the fact that I’d assume this plugin was helping DreamHost.

But I am glad to hear you are still working on different projects related to it. I’m running a semi-popular website, and receive nearly a dozen articles from different people and universities and marketing agencies every week, of which all need at least one image + one featured image, and there are far too many images on DreamObjects to go to the DreamHost website and upload there. As far as my restrictions go with CyberDuck and DreamObjects: At home, it’s great. At work? No access. And quite a bit of my downtime at work is spent processing articles, uploading images, etc.

So your plugin served me very well and saved me loads of time. Definitely not a failure in my eyes if it was getting the job done! Ultimately: uploading to the DreamObjects bucket. Uploading to the server, then the CDN, and then deleting the file is as ideal as it is going to get. It is the only way I can do it with another project of mine, which actually downloads files from target server to local server, and then uploads them to a DreamObjects bucket, and then deletes the file from the local server. Sometimes, you just have to hack it as best as you can, as there is no other way around it. Might not be perfect, but it works and works for my needs.

So I needed a quick solution and since I’ve used it for other projects, I figured I could just use it the same way.. I usually upload a featured image and a few other images within my articles. It is more limited as I can only upload one file at a time, but it works for me and it gets the job done. I don’t have time to wait for another plugin or solution to come along, as I publish at least 1-2 articles daily. As long as I’ve got images to go with my articles, and I can back it up to the CDN, it is just fine.

Appreciate all your hard work!

It did fix it for me. And I’m very sad to hear that it is being retired, as I use it for a busy blog and it certainly saves me a lot of time, as it connects directly to the Media Uploads. Wish DreamHost would offer some alternative if that is the case.

This plugin certainly makes great use of DreamObjects + WordPress together.