Cloudinary – Deliver Images and Videos at Scale
Boost the performance of your WordPress site by optimizing your images and videos with the Cloudinary WordPress Plugin. WordPress developers, content creators, and administrators can efficiently create, manage and deliver images and videos. The plugin scales from individual blogs to enterprise sites that deliver hundreds of thousands of images and videos and that need to be accessed across a variety of devices. What can Cloudinary do for you? Automatically optimize and transform all your new and existing images and videos through best-in-class algorithms that improve site performance and SEO rankings. Check out some examples! Rapidly edit assets, via AI, that deepen engagement through capabilities such as smart cropping, thumbnail generation, automated transcoding, and more. Deliver dynamically created responsive images across various devices and different resolutions. Utilize lazy loading and customizable placeholders to load images that are viewed by your users. Support both headless and UI-based WordPress deployments, maintaining flexibility in website development. Maintain compatibility with popular page builders. Provide end-to-end support for the WooCommerce plugin. Stream videos using the Cloudinary Video Player, featuring advanced capabilities to enhance user engagement. Present a responsive and interactive Product Gallery for creating captivating visual experiences. About Cloudinary’s award-winning plugin makes automating your image and video workflows easy, offering a variety of features. Supporting nearly two million developers and over 10,000 customers, Cloudinary enables companies to manage, transform, optimize and deliver image and video assets. The Cloudinary Plugin supports all these capabilities, providing users with a true plug-and-play solution. Getting started takes only minutes using the intuitive onboarding wizard. Learn more about the plugin with the Cloudinary Academy – Introduction to Cloudinary for WordPress Administrators After deployment, users can access a dashboard that provides insights into optimization metrics and data usage. The Cloudinary Plugin is based on an architecture that supports any type of site including business, enterprise and personal. Optimize your site performance and user experience by achieving faster page load times and implementing advanced auto-responsive delivery. This not only improves your Google page rankings but also enhances Core Web Vitals, and Lighthouse scores. By leveraging features such as video and image optimization, advanced responsive design, customizable lazy loading, and built-in CDN support, you can publish content faster while consistently delivering engaging user experiences. The Plugin supports both headless and UI-based development models, and allows you to customize development and extend functionality with the Cloudinary Plugin actions and filters. Moreover, you can create engaging visual experiences with automated quality and encoding settings, video and image resizing and cropping via AI, comprehensive transformations and effects, and seamless delivery to any device in any resolution or pixel density. Getting Started To use the Cloudinary Plugin and all the functionality that comes with it, you will need to have a Cloudinary Account. If you don’t have an account yet, sign up now for a free Cloudinary Programmable Media account. You’ll start with generous usage limits and when your requirements grow, you can easily upgrade to a plan that best fits your needs. Upon account creation you can plug in your account credentials and customize your configurations as desired. That’s it. About Cloudinary Read more about Cloudinary: Our website Blog Feature guides DAM solution Detailed documentation Image transformations documentation Video transformations documentation Cloudinary FAQ Cloudinary Academy – Introduction to Cloudinary for WordPress Administrators
Total CrUX
Total CrUX allows you to measure the real user experience on your site thanks to Core Web Vitals. The plugin captures and stores key metrics such as: LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) – loading performance of the main content. FID (First Input Delay) – responsiveness to first user interaction. CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) – visual stability. FCP (First Contentful Paint). INP (Interaction to Next Paint) – the new key responsiveness metric. TTFB (Time To First Byte). In addition, it collects extended diagnostic information (involved elements, render timings, resources, user interaction details, etc.), helping you identify which elements are negatively impacting user experience. Inside the WordPress admin area, you’ll find: A dashboard with aggregated site-wide metrics. A “To Improve” tab showing the worst-performing pages. A dropdown button with an option called “Details” that opens a right-side drawer with extended details. With Total CrUX, you make decisions based on real user data, not just lab simulations. Bundled third-party libraries This plugin includes local copies of the following third-party libraries, stored in the directory admin/assets/vendor/js/. These files are served directly from the plugin and correspond to the versions indicated below. The human-readable source code for each library is available in their official repositories: Alpine.js (MIT License) Version: 3.15.0 Local copy: admin/assets/vendor/js/alpine.js (obtained from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/alpinejs@3.15.0/dist/cdn.min.js) Source code: https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine Chart.js (MIT License) Version: 4.5.0 Local copy: admin/assets/vendor/js/chart.js (obtained from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js@4.5.0/dist/chart.umd.min.js) Source code: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js Web Vitals (Apache-2.0 License) Version: 5.1.0 Local copy: admin/assets/vendor/js/web-vitals.js (obtained from https://unpkg.com/web-vitals@5.1.0/dist/web-vitals.attribution.iife.js) Source code: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web-vitals External services This plugin makes use of the external service LucusHost Affiliate Network. What the service is and what it is used for: On the plugin’s ‘Support us’ tab, a promotional banner for LucusHost is displayed. This banner is served from LucusHost’s affiliate system. It is purely informational and promotional. What data is sent and when: When the admin page containing the banner is loaded, the plugin makes a request to LucusHost’s servers (aff.lucushost.com) to fetch the banner image. This request includes standard web request information (such as IP address, browser information, and the referring page). If you click on the banner, you will be redirected to LucusHost’s website through our affiliate link. If you make a purchase, we may receive a commission. This does not result in any extra cost for you, and in fact we provide a 20% discount code (ARTEDELAWEB-20) as part of this affiliate program. Service provider / links: LucusHost — Affiliate program: https://www.lucushost.com/afiliados Legal notice & Privacy policy: https://www.lucushost.com/aviso-legal
