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Scaleflex DAM Wordpress plugin
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Scaleflex DAM Wordpress plugin
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The Scaleflex DAM WordPress Plugin allows integration of Scaleflex DAM with your WordPress website.
The plugin allows you to interact with your WordPress database and upload or access media assets from within the Scaleflex DAM.
You only need to have a Scaleflex DAM account and install the plugin in your WordPress site.
If you are new to Scaleflex DAM, here is a short introduction: https://vimeo.com/616931056
Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/filerobot-digital-asset-management-and-acceleration/
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Register for a demo if you don't already have a Filerobot account.
Step 1. Log in to your WordPress admin panel
Step 2. On the Admin sidebar, navigate to Plugins > Add New.
Step 4 - Enter "Scaleflex DAM" in the search field and then install the plugin
Step 5 - Activate (it will not modify yet your current configuration or image source & delivery)
Step 6 - Navigate to the Scaleflex Settings page
Step 7. Fill-in the plugin's settings page with authentication parameters
CNAME: You can set a custom domain. When some clients' images on Scaleflex DAM are redisplayed and they don’t want the Scaleflex DAM’s domain to appear in the images' URLs, then it's possible to set it there.
Scaleflex DAM token: The token (project ID) that you signed up for, from Filerobot.
Security Template Identifier: It’s like a way obtain limited-time passwords. See: Security templates. Behind the scenes, the code would use the Security Template Identifier to obtain a SASS (the “limited-time password”). The SASS would then be used in the auth header for interacting with the Filerobot API (https://developers.scaleflex.com/)
Scaleflex DAM upload directory: Which "root" folder do you want to upload to on the Filerobot platform.
“Don’t store media assets on WP server” checked means not to store the size-variants of an image on the “local” WP CMS. The original image is however still stored on the WP CMS.
“Use Scaleflex Media Asset Widget as gallery” checked means only use Scaleflex DAM as the Media Gallery/Uploader. The default WP Media Gallery will therefore be hidden.
“Synchronize Scaleflex DAM metadata” checked means this option will import the metadata available in Scaleflex DAM (tags, etc.) in your image description and alt text to facilitate search. Warning: This option is mandatory for advanced editors (like Elementor, Gutemberg, etc.).
“Sync Post ID” checked means this option will sync all post ID are using the asset to a specific metadata field.
“Sync metadata fields” checked means this option will import the specific metadata fields in Scaleflex DAM with the selected metadata fields chosen in the setting. Warning: This setting needs a specific set of metadata in Scaleflex DAM to be activated, otherwise will break the synchronization. And “Name of the metadata list in WP database” is required if this option checked.
The “Test connection” button tests if your Scaleflex DAM token and Security Template Identifier can connect to your Scaleflex DAM asset library.
The “Synchronization status” button tells you how many files still needs to be synchronized from WP CMS to the Scaleflex DAM platform (the “up”) and how many files still need to be synchronized from the Scaleflex DAM platform to WP CMS (the “down”).
The “Trigger synchronization” button starts the actual synchronization.
For example, before Scaleflex DAM is installed and activated, you have these 2 images on your WP CMS and these 2 images on your Scaleflex DAM platform:
At this point, the images' URLs still have WP CMS URLs
After you install, activate, and configure Scaleflex DAM, you can first check the connection to Scaleflex DAM. This will confirm if you entered the correct credentials.
Then you can check the status of what is yet to be synchronized:
Then you can do the actual synchronization:
The progress bars will give you information about the current synchronization process
The logs tab will show you more information about the synchronized media assets.
Now you can see that all the images' URLs had became Scaleflex DAM URLs
and on Scaleflex DAM platform
The next major feature that Scaleflex DAM brings is: the Scaleflex DAM Widget in the Media Library
Here you can upload your media assets to the Scaleflex DAM platform (instead of WP’s local library)
The next major feature that Scaleflex DAM brings is that: anywhere where the Media Manager opens, a Scaleflex DAM tab will be inserted into it.
The next feature that Filerobot brings is it’s image editor, instead of WP’s image editor
Deactivation
When you deactivate Scaleflex DAM, all the media assets that have been synchronized to Filerobot will be removed.
From Jan 2022: We enabled the Media files' metadata sync:
FR meta -> WP meta,
FR tags -> WP alt,
FR comments -> WP contents
From Jan 2022: Scaleflex DAM plugin only works with these settings:
June 2022: All English. No more Multilingual, language strings, etc …
The Scaleflex DAM WordPress plugin works well with other popular plugins:
Classic Editor
Gutenberg Editor
WooCommerce
Elementor
ACF
... but let us know if you have any compatibility issues with third parties plugins; as WordPress is a very open system, it is always possible that some plugins overwrite part of the configuration.
