Cloudinary – Deliver Images and Videos at Scale

I would like to propose a new feature: retain only the original images on the server while continuing to serve both variant sizes and the original size optimized for visitors on the website.

This ensures that the original files remain intact and accessible, while optimized versions are delivered for web use.

Thank you for considering this request!

Thank you

Overall the plugin is working well for me. The one issue I’m having is when trying to import a large set of images (about 1500) from Cloudinary to WordPress using the Cloudinary DAM media library-

1. The UI begins to lag the further down I scroll into the image set.
2. I can only import 20 images at a time, which slows the process down quite a bit. Is there a way to make this limit higher? I would imagine 20 being way too small for many users.
3. The UI again slows to a crawl when trying to select and then import the images. It takes upwards of 10 seconds to simply select images, and press the import button (the rest of my browser tabs are running fine btw).

I assume a lot of the sluggishness is due to the size of my image set. I would love to see the developers of the plugin do more testing with larger image sets and improve UI responsiveness. Thanks.

Really change the way wordpess performance work

My problem is that a client’s shop is a complete mess in regards of image sizes and dimensions. Not because of the client but because of the manufacturers who provide product images in all kinds of formats and dimensions. To bring all of them automated into the same dimensions is a nightmare. I mean portraits, landscape, too small, too big, etc.

In my opinion, Cloudinary is a game changer as the images are stored in whatever format in the cloud, and displayed in the correct format on the fly using transformations in the image URL. Still, some images need special attention because no one can produce gold out of garbage but for 95% of around 2k images, it works just fine.

Besides, the additional features like lazy-loading, responsiveness, etc. are just an amazing addon.

I just started using it but so far, it helped me a lot.

And as others wrote, the integration worked smoothly out of the box because there are no changes to the html or any redirects happening like when you use plugins that create webp images on the fly. Cloudinary does this too but without altering anything (or at least I’m not aware of it).

So far, I love it and see huge potential. Cloudinary can do so much more than efficiently deliver images on your website.