How to use Auto-sync and Manual-sync?

The Cloudinary WordPress plugin supports 2 modes to synchronize your assets with Cloudinary and benefits from all the features and functionality for delivering optimized and transformed media.

Auto-sync

The Auto-sync is the default mode and ensures that all of your WordPress assets are automatically synced with Cloudinary when they are added to the WordPress Media Library.

Here is a short video demonstrating how Auto-sync works:

When the icon is green on the WordPress Media Library, you should see the image as well in your Cloudinary account:

NB: When Auto-Sync is ON, requesting an asset from the frontend will also sync the asset to Cloudinary which is particularly useful for large libraries.

Manual-sync

When the Manual-Sync is ON, you are in control of which asset is synced or not. Note that assets that are not synced have a black Cloudinary icon in the WordPress Media Library. To synchronize an asset with Cloudinary, you have 2 options:

• Hover a specific asset you would like to synchronize and click on Sync and deliver from Cloudinary.
• Select a list of assets you would like to synchronize then select the Sync with Cloudinary bulk action and click on Apply.

Here is a short video demonstrating how Manual-sync works:

Until the icon isn't green, you won't see the image in your Cloudinary account and as soon as it gets synced, the image will appear: