Last Updated on December 25, 2020 by Neil Murray

We need an easier way to manage all the many different images used on our various websites.

Issues

• update all images used on an article
• update all images used everywhere when a feature is updated
• find image already created that does what we need for a new article
• consistent naming of images
• tag images in multiple categories
• know where images are used – including in multiple locations
• version of plugin when image created
• image – naming | title | alt text | dimensions | file size
• images currently stored in too many different locations
• serve images from CDN (future)

Ideas/Options

• Google Docs
  • Spreadsheet
  • Drive
• Dropbox
• WordPress
  • Plugin – build MVP plugin to scratch our itch (confirm market)
  • Gallery – all images used on an article
• SASS
  • multiple WP sites
  • what software do newspapers use to keep track of their images?

Media Library plugins

• WP Offload Media Lite – serve uploaded images from Cloud Storage options
• WP-Stateless – Upload and serve your WordPress media from Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
• WordPress Real Media Library – Media Categories / Folders File Manager (code canyon)

Image plugins

There are large number WP Image plugins we can use to help manage the images used on our WordPress sites.

We have installed a number of these plugins to test how they help to deal with our issues.

Sass Solutions

• Frontify – freemium
• Cloudinary – freemium
  • WordPress plugin

Early Thoughts

I believe there are SAAS solutions which probably do all we want as part of an Enterprise grade Document Management system.

But they are:

• an overkill for what we need
• very expensive
• not well integrated with WordPress (generally)

Further reading:

• 22 Great WordPress Plugins for Managing Images (Updated)

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Notes

Save all Images to Dropbox – use ..\Dropbox\Support\Development\Development Guidelines\IMAGE – Store – System\