Support remote file storage

[jom]

Related: #576 (Jetpack's Proton)

Plugins that override the core filters for attachment storage and retrieval cause issues with the way WPJM stores file attachment meta. This will take a significant reworking of how we store this information.

[wigglemuff]

1278459-zen - we can notify them when this is resolved.

[tripflex]

Had a client contact me regarding this as well for support with WP Offload S3 (which does have compatibility issues)

[just-us]

Hey guys, any news on this? It would be great to be able to offload images and resumes to AWS, Dropbox, Google Drive etc.

[dangercris]

Hey Guys, how is goin on with this feature?

[sbojwaj]

Hi Team,

Can we get an update on this, please?

This feature would be highly useful.

Storage utilising Amazon S3 and others which utilise storage encryption at rest by default, provide another compelling reason to use this.

[sbojwaj]

Come on guys. @jom @codestor4

An update, please.

Can we get a date?

[sbojwaj]

Any update on this? @jom @codestor4

[sbojwaj]

Any update on this @danjjohnson @jom @codestor4 please?

An estimated timeline would be great.

[tripflex]

I think the bigger issue here is that natively WordPress does not support this, and the handling of the "post thumbnail" is based around attachments, which is used for resizing and storing meta data.

In "theory" if these offloading plugins had a way to make it transparent to WordPress while handling "media" attachments, there shouldn't be any problems as WP Job Manager uses the native WordPress handling of media files.

I dug through the code a bit to see what kind of options I could come up with, and didn't see anything too promising in regards to this.

I guess the real question regarding this, is do any of these "offloading" plugins support the "featured image" handling on other post types, blog posts or other areas of WordPress outside of WP Job Manager? If so, then maybe it's best for us to dig into one of those plugins that do work natively in WordPress, to figure out how we can make sure that WP Job Manager does not conflict with the methods used for this.

[dave3322]

@tripflex

Thanks for looking at this much appreciated. I am not a developer so I wont try and talk like one. but i do understand the basics when it comes to writing code and building a website and how things interlink. I believe the summary of what you are saying is that all the offload plugins have to do the work not wordpress or wpjm. I spoke to the plugin developers and they all said this is an issue with wpjm not their plugin. Especially around just the featured image.

Now lets us take two scenarios for showing images 1) an image gallery 2) the featured image

1. the image gallery works well with these cdn plugins (i.e insert a new gallery on the same page where the featured image disappears on edit).
   try and create a gallery with any cdn plugin. when you create the images they show on the front end, when you edit the gallery the images still show on the front end. and all urls are pointing to the cdn. This is with wpjm, wordpress and the existing infrastructure. This is their argument that the issue is not with all images on wpjm but the issue is exclusively on the featured image disappearing on edit.

2. featured image
   This does not work with the cdn and image disappears on edit.

3. suggested solution
   Can you look at the way the codeing, meta and all the developer type stuff you talked about and try and mirror the same codeding architecture that exits for the gallery images and do the same for the featured image?

Summary: if the gallery images work well with cdn, and the featured image dosent, then i can only conclude that this is an issue on the core codeing architecture and should not be fixed at plugin level.

Please let me know your thoughts

[dave3322]

FYI ALL - 22 September 2020 - This is still an issue (WPJM featured image disappears on edit with using a cdn to host external images)

[ventureplatform]

I'll add my support here, this is a badly needed feature and I hope it is moved up the priority ladder. Having the ability to connect securely to Google Drive and DropBox at the very least and other providers would add a great deal of value, doubly so for users that need to share incoming resume content with others that may not have admin access to the site.

[bobmatyas]

Another request in 5650880-zen

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