/wp-content/uploads/ folder sync

[ewsopp]

I am working with the Vellum theme and I am constantly held back by broken images that are not properly generated via wordpress methods. I spoke with @antonkorotkov about this and he believes this can be resolved if we add functionality to WP-Stateless that keeps the /wp-content/uploads/ folder in sync with GCS.

This would also resolve issues with converting older sites to stateless media and handling images with out-dated thumbnail sizes.

[andypotanin]

This appears on New Wave?

[antonkorotkov]

Yes. I think some of the plugins creates a 'cache' folder in uploads omitting standard way of wp_handle_uploads.

[ewsopp]

Issue #27 will handle this in a manual way, but we need something that handles it in an automated way. Is it a bad idea to constantly check for file differences and synchronize any found changes? I'm thinking about how dropbox works...

[antonkorotkov]

I don't think it is even possible on WP plugin level actually. We can only hook when image is created/removed and do something with it.

We could potentially list all physical files and walk over them and check for sync state on some wp-cron job but I don't think it is good approach since once again it should not be done on wp plugin level because it is too time and memory consuming.

So my opinion on here is - it is impossible to do it the way dropbox does. The other way when we hook image create/remove is already implemented under 'On fly' option.

[andypotanin]

@antonkorotkov I don't think this should be on the fly. But this would be a very useful general "Utility" for making sure all your files in uploads are registered as Media library objects, and therefore also on GCS.

So, perhaps this should be a special Tool/Utility you run manually. It'll find all files in uploads directory and create corresponding Media objects for them. While doing so, upload them to GCS.

A cron functionality should be separate, and could be added at a later date.

[ewsopp]

@antonkorotkov damn - makes sense. However, to @andypotanin point - I describe how we can handle this manually via issue #27.

I'll close this issue for now, since it was about automating the sync.