Media Offloading
Im currently testing FluentCommunity using the free version but so far love it so def mocing to paid version soon. For now if I am using a media offload plugin in WP will media on FC also be offloaded?
Im sorta just planning how to build this out and waiting on FLuentCart :D
I'm wondering the same because I don't see anything uploaded to the FC in my WP Dashboard Media section. I'm looking to use the recommended Cloudflare R2 option. Also wondering if I create a "Bucket" on my Cloudflare account, will FC offload/upload all files (images, pdf's, etc...) automatically and remove them from my site completely to only be accessible via the Cloudflare R2 CDN?
David Fore That's correct. If you connect with R2, then all the new media will be uploaded to the R2 Bucket and serve from there. So no local copy will be stored in your server.
Shahjahan Jewel Media is uploaded directly to R2 correct? Not to our server, then to R2, then deleted from our server?
Bucky Larson the uploaded file will stay to your server for less than a second while uploading to R2 from your server. It’s use a temp storage.
One thing I have learned is FC makes use of its own databases and not wordpress. Makes it a little harder to make things like the above function. This is a whole new beast to me
In FluentCommunity pro, you can connect with R2/S3 and all the media will be offloaded to your bucket.
Ok, thanks. So no need for an additional plugin to do the uploading or offloading to R2 then, correct? And you said "all new media", is there a way to get all media, including old media prior to the setup and configuration of Cloudflare R2 (or other ways, Amazon S3, etc..) to upload/offload? Or would this require another plugin? And too, even with another "Media Uploader to R2 or S3 plugin", will these plugins access the media stored in the FC temporary folder(s), or do these media uploader plugins only access the media/data stored in the WordPress Media location? Just trying to understand better how this all works. 🤔