Upload, embed, and link to your files hosted on Live Editor directly in your WordPress site.
- HTML5 video and audio media encoding built in. Your uploaded files are automatically encoded into the formats required for playback on all computers and mobile devices.
- Reliable cloud hosting. All uploaded files are stored on and served from Amazon S3.
- Better organization and retrieval. Organize your files into collections. Add basic metadata. Use our powerful built-in search engine to find what you're looking for.
- Automatically track your usage of files when you add them to a post or page in WordPress. Then you'll know the full impact of uploading a new version or deleting the file later.
- Track sources and derivatives for each file.
- Link up YouTube and Vimeo videos to their source video files for easier retrieval and editing later.
- Seamless integration with WordPress. We've taken great care to build this WordPress plugin with the same visual style and functionality that you'd expect from WordPress. You'll forget that you're using an external service while you're authoring your content.
Note: This plugin requires paid subscription to the
Live Editor File Manager service.
First, install the Live Editor File Manager WordPress plugin:
- Install the Live Editor plugin either via the WordPress.org plugin directory or by uploading the files to your server.
- Activate the plugin in your WordPress dashboard.
Configuration
After installing the plugin, you need to do 4 more configurations, listed in the sections that follow.
1. Live Editor account
If you haven't already, you can sign up for an account at
LiveEditorCMS.com.
2. Account URL
Each Live Editor account has an account URL that looks something like this:
https://
example.liveeditorcms.com/
It's the URL that you use to sign in to your Live Editor account. You'll need to enter that into your WordPress settings.
Browse to your Live Editor File Manager settings in WordPress at Settings > File Manager. Then enter the subdomain for your Live Editor account into the Account Subdomain field.
3. Account API key
Each Live Editor account has an API key. If you are an account administrator for your Live Editor account, you can log in to Live Editor and generate a new API key from the Settings section.
- Copy the API key from Live Editor.
- Browse to your File Manager settings in WordPress at Settings > File Manager.
- Paste the API key into the Account API Key field.
If you already have entered an API key, double-check that it matches the API key listed in your Live Editor account.
If you do not have access to your Live Editor and/or WordPress account settings, be sure to contact your account administrator for assistance.
4. User API key
Each user in Live Editor has an API key. Accordingly, each user in WordPress should have their own Live Editor user API key, and they will need to enter it into their WordPress profile settings.
You can log in to Live Editor and generate your own API key in your user profile section.
- In the navigation bar, click your name and go to API Key.
- Copy the API key.
- Browse to your WordPress user profile settings by hovering over your name and clicking Edit My Profile.
- Paste your user API key into the User API Key field at the bottom of the screen.
0.1
0.2
- Removed need to have an account API key. Only a user API key is required now.
- Better detection of whether or not the plugin is configured correctly.
0.3
- Support for any import URL, not just YouTube and Vimeo.
0.3.1
- Fix styling of titles so super long words do not bleed past the bounding box.
- Now removes associated usages in Live Editor when WordPress post/page is trashed.
0.4
- Added "Hide WordPress Add Media Buttons" option and separated it from the "Hide WordPress Media Section from Menu" option.
0.5 (July 12, 2013)
- Fixes issue where file usage deletions were not processing on WordPress 3.5.2.
- Change to work with new breaking Live Editor API changes.
0.5.1 (August 14, 2013)
- Tested WordPress 3.6 compatibility.
0.5.2 (August 15, 2013)
- Significant performance improvements when calling Live Editor API.
0.5.3 (August 26, 2013)
- Remove default file thumbnail URLs to accommodate new server-side asset hosting on Live Editor servers.
0.5.4 (November 19, 2013)
- Improve performance: remove unnecessary API call on index screen.
- Rebranded: we're now Minimal Orange, LLC.
- Add query param for upcoming Live Editor feature.
0.5.5 (December 5, 2013)
- Fix PHP Fatal error: Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed.
0.5.6 (December 9, 2013)
-
Revert bug introduced by version 0.5.4.
= 0.5.7 (April 17, 2014)
-
WordPress 3.8 and 3.9 compatibility.
- Modal window now relies fully on WordPress classes and styles instead of running on a rigged Colorbox.