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dropbox-photo-sideloader

Dropbox Photo Sideloader

Adds a new tab to the Add media screen, allowing you to pull images from Dropbox into WordPress.

dropbox image media photo sideload
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78 / 101 rows with source links

77.2% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

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23 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

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Source Evidence

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mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
Destroy the app

Destroy the app: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Destroy the app When I destroyed an app on dropbox for recreat it : Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Dropbox_Exception_RequestToken' with message 'We were unable to fetch request tokens.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
[Plugin: Dropbox Photo Sideloader] Feature requests

[Plugin: Dropbox Photo Sideloader] Feature requests: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
[Plugin: Dropbox Photo Sideloader] Feature requests Hi, thanks for this plugin, very useful!
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.94
still having an issue with spaces in file

still having an issue with spaces in file: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
still having an issue with spaces in file Hi I Downloaded your plugin.
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.91
Broken?

Broken?: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Broken?
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.85
More file types

More file types: users show security, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
More file types Great plugin.
complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.85
Using for the first time – error line 82

Using for the first time – error line 82: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Using for the first time – error line 82 Thanks for writing the plugin!
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.71
Broken plugin

Broken plugin: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Broken plugin Plugin doesn’t work.
neutral support · high severity · relevance 0.63
Many error in debug

Many error in debug: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Many error in debug When I am in Add Post > Add Media > Dropbox Image , I set the account keys (App key and App secret), here the error : Warning: Illegal string offset 'type' in /srv/data/web/vhosts/xxxxx.org/htdocs/wp/wp-content/plugins/dropbox-photo-sideloader/dropbox-photo-sideloader.php on line 135 Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /srv/data/web
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
We were unable to fetch request tokens. This likely means that your consumer key

We were unable to fetch request tokens. This likely means that your consumer key: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
This likely means that your consumer key Hi, I have installed your plugin in our website.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
error when sideloading

error when sideloading: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
error when sideloading Sideloading /WE Bike Web Photos/WE Party-Michelle/P1070406_sm.jpg … Error when sideloading.

Competitor Context

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Simple Dropbox Upload praise owner · intel 73.6 · weakness 64.4
praise owner
stale update history 18 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, educators, and document-heavy businesses · Wedge: verify upload, protected download, storage permission, and browser delivery paths
source 1 source 2
Contact Form 7 Dropbox praise owner · intel 68.5 · weakness 57.9
praise owner
stale update history 7 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Evidence only
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This row is useful source evidence, but it has not been promoted into a build-worthy commercial opportunity.

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Dropbox Upload Form praise owner · intel 65.1 · weakness 62.3
praise owner
stale update history 11 collected complaint signal(s) bugs setup 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor form submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
source 1 source 2
XM-Backup watchlist · intel 51.7 · weakness 52.1
watchlist
stale update history 5 collected complaint signal(s) migration missing feature 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect database slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source 1
Dropbox CDN watchlist · intel 45.6 · weakness 44.7
watchlist
stale update history 3 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature setup 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect CDN slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source 1

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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

20 shown from 31 collected
complaint We were unable to fetch request tokens. This likely means that your consumer key support · 2019-03-26T06:03:49+00:00 · medium severity · image

We were unable to fetch request tokens. This likely means that your consumer key: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This likely means that your consumer key Hi, I have installed your plugin in our website.
bugs missing feature support setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
complaint Clashes with UpdraftPlus backup authentication to Dropbox (1 star) review · 2016-04-13T09:45:14+00:00 · medium severity · image

Clashes with UpdraftPlus backup authentication to Dropbox: users show support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Clashes with UpdraftPlus backup authentication to Dropbox This plugin prevents authentication to Dropbox of the UpdraftPlus back up plugin.
support migration backup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
praise EXACTLY what I needed! Saves me hours! (5 stars) review · 2016-01-19T16:04:35+00:00 · medium severity · image

EXACTLY what I needed! Saves me hours!: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: EXACTLY what I needed! Saves me hours! I have several clients who are real estate agents, so when they list a new property, they have a ton of new photos for me to add. The photos are stored in Dropbox and previously I was having to download them all and then FTP them up to the website. Now I can sideload them directly from Dropbox into the Media library of
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
mixed Photos not being added to Media Library support · 2015-11-12T20:58:20+00:00 · medium severity · image

Photos not being added to Media Library: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Photos not being added to Media Library Hello, I have the app installed & authorized.
support setup reliable value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise Got it to work – very nice (5 stars) review · 2015-10-21T11:07:33+00:00 · medium severity · image

Got it to work – very nice: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Got it to work – very nice Especially now that Dropbox has added a File Requests feature, this Sideloader plugin is a lifesaver.
missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
neutral Can't access the photos support · 2015-10-05T14:38:26+00:00 · low severity · image

Can't access the photos: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: https://wordpress.org/plugins/dropbox-photo-sideloader/ When you create the “App”, you have to select the “Full Access” option so that it can see all your files.
missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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question Synchornization support · 2015-08-19T07:51:25+00:00 · low severity · image

Synchornization: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Synchornization How it is possible to Fetch images/videos from dropbox a/c to media(Upload folder) using cron job ?
missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
praise Automatic update if change images on the folder? support · 2015-03-05T00:28:35+00:00 · low severity · image

Automatic update if change images on the folder?: users praise value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: The reason to ask: Ive the intention to upload the images only from the dropbox folder and by the time I don’t want the images anymore, I intent to delete the images from dropbox’s folder and upload new one but I don’t want that the old images to be showing anymore on my WP site.
value content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
question sandbox support · 2015-02-06T20:45:00+00:00 · low severity · image

sandbox: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: sandbox Hi, why doesn’t the plugin work when I give just partial access? Is there a way for me to fix this? Is it a dropbox problem? Can you give me a hint about this because I really need to get this to work…+ Thanks 🙂 Jonas https://wordpress.org/plugins/dropbox-photo-sideloader/ Hi, why doesn’t the plugin work when I give just partial access? Is there a wa
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
neutral Is sideloader available outside of adding new post? support · 2014-12-19T08:44:54+00:00 · low severity · image

Is sideloader available outside of adding new post?: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Even better, when adding Featured Image?
missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
mixed Destroy the app support · 2014-11-11T15:37:57+00:00 · high severity · image

Destroy the app: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Destroy the app When I destroyed an app on dropbox for recreat it : Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Dropbox_Exception_RequestToken' with message 'We were unable to fetch request tokens.
bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
neutral Many error in debug support · 2014-11-11T15:14:39+00:00 · high severity · image

Many error in debug: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Many error in debug When I am in Add Post > Add Media > Dropbox Image , I set the account keys (App key and App secret), here the error : Warning: Illegal string offset 'type' in /srv/data/web/vhosts/xxxxx.org/htdocs/wp/wp-content/plugins/dropbox-photo-sideloader/dropbox-photo-sideloader.php on line 135 Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /srv/data/web
bugs compatibility missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
mixed still having an issue with spaces in file support · 2014-06-27T20:48:05+00:00 · high severity · image

still having an issue with spaces in file: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: still having an issue with spaces in file Hi I Downloaded your plugin.
bugs compatibility support setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
mixed app secret support · 2014-06-16T11:02:10+00:00 · low severity · image

app secret: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: app secret This item is not required in the actual version of dropbox, so its impossible to use the plugin unfortunatelly please fix it!!!
missing feature reliable api content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed Can't Access Dropbox Sub-Directories support · 2014-05-13T23:32:33+00:00 · medium severity · image

Can't Access Dropbox Sub-Directories: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The plugin will not work with any form of partial access.
bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
mixed Broken plugin support · 2014-05-02T00:38:32+00:00 · high severity · image

Broken plugin: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Broken plugin Plugin doesn’t work.
bugs reliable content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
complaint Couldn't get it to work (1 star) review · 2014-04-27T19:47:05+00:00 · medium severity · image

Couldn't get it to work: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It is, I agree, a great idea and I like the author’s description of what it is supposed to do.
bugs support setup easy content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin
mixed Shared Dropbox Account support · 2013-12-18T13:54:34+00:00 · low severity · image

Shared Dropbox Account: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Dropbox doesn’t have great support for shared accounts.
support quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed Restrict Directores support · 2013-12-15T17:56:22+00:00 · medium severity · image

Restrict Directores: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Restrict Directores Except for the issues with Media_Sideload_Images not dealing with spaces and other punctuation (a WP issue), this make DropBox substantially more useful for news organizations like ours.
bugs missing feature support quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed Is this still supported? support · 2013-11-08T23:56:34+00:00 · medium severity · image

Is this still supported?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Is this still supported?
support reliable api content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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