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Hi Julie,

Thanks for your questions and links to your work – the are very nice!

Here’s some more info that’s hopefully helpful.

The plugin can currently be used to sync Project and Employee data along with associated images. It’s been designed to help build project portfolios and team pages on websites such that the information is in sync with OpenAsset. This means that webpages that use this data should retrieve it from the WordPress database. The plugin comes with some bundled templates that can either be modified or used as examples of how to build your own custom UI. This page explains how you can access synced data in code. We may be releasing some video content in the future on how to do this so stay tuned.

When a sync is run, the plugin will create posts for each Project and Employee automatically. How information is displayed on these pages is up to you and how you code the frontend of your site. Integrating directly to the website frontend means the information can be controlled from one place (OpenAsset) and there is no need for admins to manually place data on pages in WordPress.

Since the most recent release, it’s now also possible to only use image syncing, although you do this by setting the Project and Employee pages to be hidden. This means WP admin users can manually place images onto posts as they wish. The hidden Project and Employee posts mean images are searchable by Project and Employee in the Media Library. This offers a means for companies to benefit from this image syncing without integrating data if they do not wish to or are not ready to.

Thanks for your thoughts on syncing Text Assets. We will discuss here and we may get back with further questions.

You asked if it would be more efficient to use our API directly. The purpose of this plugin is to make it much easier to build an integration with OpenAsset as it handles authentication and data / file syncing without writing any code.

You asked about auto sync frequency and sync logic. The options for frequency are 8 or 24 hrs. Once a sync is run individual Projects, Employees and images will be updated if they have been updated in OpenAsset since the last sync. You can also manually run a sync whenever you wish.

Hi There,

Good question, Text Library is quite new to OpenAsset, released in Dec 2024. It is currently not supported by our WordPress Connector, however, we are working on a plan right now.

It would be very interesting to hear how you would like to use Text Library for this. What kinds of text would you like to sync and how would you want to present it?

Thanks!