Meta Slider Work-Around for CDN

Resolved walkingfish
(@walkingfish)

12 years, 6 months ago
Hi, I am using a CDN for loading my images (Cloudinary). This plug doesnt seen to support CDN – I noticed too there is no “Load image from URL” option as well. I’m sure this is turned off to prevent you from using video, etc. w/o paying for the pro-version. 😛

Anyways, If I use an image from my media library (which is linked to a CDN), I get an error: “ERROR File doesn’t exist? Check file permissions”.

The error is as follows:
```
Slide ID: 73
object(WP_Error)#352 (2) {
  ["errors"]=>
  array(1) {
    ["error_loading_image"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      string(25) "File doesn’t exist?"
    }
  }
  ["error_data"]=>
  array(1) {
    ["error_loading_image"]=>
    string(137) "C:\xampp\htdocs\wp-core/wp-content/uploads/http://res.cloudinary.com/myUserName/image/upload/v1384541212/slider01_mlezah.jpg"
  }
}
```
Obviously the plugin is adding a content path of the media library and the CDN plugin uses the URL –> These are getting combined for the image link.

To fix this, and it should be easily done, is to remove the code-block within the Meta Slider plugin to exclude the “C:\xampp\htdocs\wp-core/wp-content/uploads/” or media file folder location.

My problem is: I cant find where it is in the ton of .js files included in this plugin. Can anyone (this plugin developer?) point me to where it is so I can work around this?

Thnx and any help is greatly appreciated!!!

http://wordpress.org/plugins/ml-slider/

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matchalabs
(@matchalabs)

12 years, 6 months ago

Load image from URL isn’t there because Meta Slider needs the files to be local, so it can do stuff like automatic resizing and cropping based on the slideshow settings – if the file is remote then it can’t do that. In short, it’s ‘turned off’ because its incompatible with Meta Slider.

You’ll want to look at inc/slide/metaslider.image.class.php, in there there’s a function called ‘get_public_slide’ which you’ll need to make some changes to.

Regards,
Tom

Thread Starter walkingfish
(@walkingfish)

12 years, 6 months ago

Thx – I just discovered how to do it:

Within: “\ml-slider\inc\metaslider.imagehelper.class.php

Line 27:
Change from: $this->url = $upload_dir['baseurl'] . "/" . get_post_meta($slide_id, '_wp_attached_file', true);

To: $this->url = get_post_meta($slide_id, '_wp_attached_file', true);

This changed the HTML output and thus now allows to pull from the CDN. 🙂

However the error still shows in the admin and to fix that, remove lines 269 thru 281

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