I use the Network Shared Media plugin to share media across my multisite networks.
The way it works is when adding media from a post/page editor there is an extra link in the media library menu that pulls up media from the ‘source’ site on the network.
an alternative to this is to use Cloudinary and their media library which normally adds a button to the post editor and creates a second media library on the WP admin from their cloud media library.
BB is accessing the media library in a different way it seems than a standard post editor would.
Is there any possibility of changing this behavior?
alternatively (additionally) it would be a huge benefit to be able to simply enter a URL for images (I use S3/cloudfront as well as cloudinary) and being able to just assign CDN URL would expedite everything.
my workaround is going to involve creating a bunch of div classes with background images which the css can use the URL but … going to take a lot of extra work negating much of what makes BB so great.
You can actually place a URL on our Photo module by simply changing the Photo Source from Media Library to URL. Is that what you’re looking for by chance or am I missing something?
The reason why the Media Library on our Photo module looks a bit different is because it’s intended to only select a single photo and that’s how WP sets it up if so. Do you mind sharing screenshots of how those plugins work? Or where they’re adding the buttons and such?
I first ran into this attempting to edit the page template row background images - which don’t have the insert from URL etc but only upload or standard media library - they don’t have the network shared media that you can access from a text editor module
I installed the Network Shared Media plugin and the options are on the native media library via a page or post, but not on our modules library. I think you will probably want to contact the Network Shared Media support team and see if they can provide you with a snippet to implement their options.
As like Ben said, we are using the native WP media library modal.
Please advise why if using Text Editor Module we can see both the Network Shared Media and Insert image from URL media library options but for Template Row Background and/or Slider images these are not shown and only upload or use what’s already in the media library?
The use case that prompted the thread was attempting to use default BB page templates on a multisite with many users - and having a shared media option to allow changing the Templates easily and efficiently (offsite storage, CDN delivery, pre-selected niche relevant etc). Not being able to change the template background images the same way as everything else is painful.
I looked into this and there are a few things going on that are causing this to not be possible…
With the sidebar enabled, we also get things like the ability to create a gallery that don’t make sense in the context of the photo module that is intended to display a single photo. It won’t even work with that on.
The photo module expects an attachment object to be return from the media library, not a URL string. So even if we did have the sidebar enabled, this plugin would still not work.
Nothing’s impossible, but at this time it would be quite a large rewrite to get that plugin working with the way the photo module is currently intended to work. If you have time, feel free to add that idea to our UserVoice page. Sorry I don’t have a better answer for you.
