Hi,
Thanks for contacting us here about this extension.
- Can we sync higlighted images to our Google Drive and then delete the image in WP Media Library?
- Will the description in current WP Media Library below our images, with very important copright info, stay intact after that?
- Does the answers to the above questions also appy for in-article images?
- Can we in fact have all our images on Google Drive and in a Virtual Folder with your plugin in WP Media Library?
Yes, our plugin is based on WP Media manager, we just create virtual folders in library to manage media files.
So you can use our plugin anywhere you can use Media library, such as: insert media to posts/pages, images for products in WooCommerce.
- Could having all images (about 45GB now) hosted in Google Drive speed up our website?
- What happens if we link to an image on Google Drive with the other images formats set by a theme? Do they automaicly (re)generate?
- Will transfering the images to Google Drive create redirect for each image, or do we need to replace each image by hand with a URL to Google Drive?
It will load your files in Media library when scrolling, so it will not depend how large all your images stored in Google Drive.
Only one image on Google Drive will be linked with one image in the Media library (it will not be created automatically following formats).
When sync Media library with Google Drive, there will be a root folder generated in your Drive. Then your new files are uploaded in Media library will be synced within that folder.
You should move your existed files on your drive to that root folder to sync to Media library. You do not have to replace anything, you just upload files to cloud folders in media library.
And files are actually stored at Google Drive, we just index files information in the library.
Please go to our documentation for more details:
https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-documentation/wp-media-folder/286-wp-media-folder-addon-google-drive-integration#toc-3-what-can-i-do-with-google-drive-media-
- We currently use Real Media Library and the Physical Custom Upload Dir for Real Media Library plugin. Does your plugin import their settings/foldernames or do the disappear?
- Does hotlinking our images from our Google Drive have any negative impact on Google Rankings or is it in anyway in violation with their rules?
We have an option to import virtual structure Real Media Library plugin to our plugin.
You can move files from the library to Google Drive, but you should backup your website first to avoid unfortunate cases.
Hope this helps!
Best Regards,