Installation of the WordPress Connector

Requirements

To use the 4App WordPress Connector, make sure you have

• an installed WordPress server version 5.7 or higher
• an installed plugin for Basic WordPress Authentication

The 4App WordPress Connector is supported starting from DAM version 3.8.

Installation of the 4App

The WordPress Connector is available as a separate 4App (4allportal-wordpress-connector) and can be downloaded and installed via the app management in the administration area. After installation, activate the 4App and restart the system.

You now find the new admin snap-in DAM/WordPress Connector in the administration area to configure as well as the new panel WordPress Connectorin each asset's detail view of the DAM.

Installation of the WordPress Authentication plugin

To authenticate the 4App WordPress Connector with WordPress (required), you need to install a plugin on your WordPress server.

1. Find the Basic Authentication plugin here.

2. Choose Download ZIP

3. When the download is complete (it comes with a README for details), upload the plugin via the WordPress frontend:
   Plugins / Add New / Upload Plugin

4. When the upload is complete, the plugin can be activated via the WordPress frontend:
   Plugins / JSON Basic Authentication / Activate

Settings for WordPress

After installation of your WordPress server, change the permalinks settings like this:
Settings / Permalinks / choose anything but "plain"

Troubleshooting

The WordPress Rest-API sometimes takes too long to handle a request. This can cause problems in both WordPress and 4ALLPORTAL.

Problem: Updating media files

WordPress times out a request and does not send a response back to the 4ALLPORTAL. The response would contain the media id to be saved in the 4ALLPORTAL. The media id is required for updating or deleting media files.

If the media-creation response has not been sent back from WordPress and you would try to update a media file in the 4ALLPORTAL, the file would not update, and an error would show that the media file couldn't be found in WordPress.

Solution

First, make sure your media files already uploaded and imported completely into the DAM before sharing or updating them to your WordPress server.

Second, editing the following files on your WordPress server may be helpful:

• Edit the following parameters in the php.ini file (found under your installation path /var/www/html/.php.ini or under /etc/php.ini) to:

  upload_max_filesize = 100M
  post_max_size = 105M
  memory_limit = 256M
  max_file_uploads = 200
  max_execution_time = 600
  file_uploads = On
  

  Note: Please make sure post_max_size is always bigger than upload_max_filesize.

• Add the following to the .htaccess file (found under your installation path /var/www/html/.htaccess):

  php_value upload_max_filesize 100M
  php_value post_max_size 105M
  php_value max_execution_time 600
  php_value max_input_time 600
  
  # END WordPress
  

• Add the following to the wp-config.php file (found under your installation path /var/www/html/wp-config.php):

  @ini_set( 'upload_max_size' , '100M' );
  @ini_set( 'post_max_size', '105M');
  @ini_set( 'memory_limit', '256M' );
  

Make sure to restart your WordPress server after these configurations.