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Cloudinary Asset Loader for Astro and Headless WordPress Using WPGraphQL (Part 2)

Topics Guest Post, Headless, WordPress
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In Part 1, we’ll set up WordPress as a headless CMS with WPGraphQL, grab our public ID data from our specific Cloudinary assets, and create the custom field in WordPress that is necessary to link the Cloudinary asset ID’s to WordPress and Astro.  In Part 2, we’ll put everything…

Cloudinary Asset Loader for Astro and Headless WordPress Using WPGraphQL (Part 1)

Topics Guest Post, Headless, WordPress
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In web development, combining the flexibility of headless CMS with modern frontend frameworks and asset management tools is essential for building scalable, high-performance websites.  This is a two-part blog post that will walk through building a website using headless WordPress, Astro, WPGraphQL, Advanced Custom Fields, and Cloudinary. We’ll combine the…

How to Optimize Video in Next.js With Cloudinary

Topics Next.js, Performance Optimization, Video
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Users worldwide have varying internet speeds, data caps, and other restrictions, making it difficult to stream heavy content like videos. To ensure a smooth experience, videos must be compressed and optimized to load quickly without sacrificing quality. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to create a custom video…

Creating Vertical Video for Social Media Using Cloudinary’s Smart Video Cropping

Topics Video, Video Transformation
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Vertical video has become the go-to format for social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. A study by eMarketer reveals 71% of mobile users prefer vertical videos over horizontal videos. Because vertical videos maximize screen space on mobile devices, they can grab attention more than horizontal videos. However,…

Building an Optimized Cloudinary Image Custom Element With Web Components

Topics Image Transformation, Performance Optimization
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Every developer knows the benefits of code reusability. It saves time and ensures consistency.. Web components (WC) allow you to create reusable and interoperable custom elements that are encapsulated, so they’re more easily integrated into other projects regardless of framework. Web components work with all major browsers, though with…

Cloudinary Assets: The Intelligent DAM

Topics AI, Asset Management, DAM, Digital Asset Management, Generative AI, Image, Image Transformation
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“DAM done different” is how we like to refer to our API-first digital asset management (DAM) platform, Cloudinary Assets. The enhancements announced today, just ahead of this week’s Henry Stewart DAM NYC, help streamline every stage of the asset lifecycle, and introduce features like customizable creative review workflows,…

Ensuring Video Privacy with Cloudinary

Topics Video
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Keeping Private Videos Private From private videos to public shows, video content has taken over the world. It helps you record and relive the most precious moments of your life, such as your baby’s first steps, your first date, a family vacation, or a long-awaited reunion. But what if our…

Video Privacy

JPEG XL’s Modular Mode Explained

Topics Featured, Image Formats, JPEG XL
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The new DNG 1.7 specification allows using JPEG XL as the payload codec to store the raw camera data. This new option became available in flagship phone models like the iPhone 16 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S24. It brings a much-needed update to the existing compression method that…

Holiday Gift Guide: 3 Brands With Incredible Online Shopping Experiences

Topics e-commerce, Image Transformation, Performance Optimization, Video
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Holiday shopping is already complicated enough. Consumers don’t need a subpar digital shopping experience or annoying returns to add to the chaos. They want to trust that what they buy is exactly what they’ll get — plain and simple.  These three brands have partnered with Cloudinary to ensure they…

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