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3.2.14 (22 October 2025)

Fixes and Improvements:

Upgraded dependencies: form-data and @babel/traverse packages updated for improved stability and security
Improved SQL queries for enhanced compatibility and performance with WP Engine environments
Improved initialization performance by optimizing the sanitize_slug method usage to reduce unnecessary processing
Fixed incompatibility causing broken media URLs when JetEngine dashboard styles loaded inline SVGs

3.2.13 (17 September 2025)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed a PHP warning on the Reviews page when using Tags with Customer Reviews for WooCommerce
Fixed a conflict with the RankMath SEO plugin
Fixed an issue with ignored SVG support. The plugin now preserves SVG format for synced Cloudinary assets
Fixed print_script_data to prevent errors on the WordPress login page
Fixed additional asset sync issues with the Disable/Remove functionality
Fixed syncing issue with WebM audio files
Fixed an issue where the Classic Editor incorrectly attempted to generate responsive breakpoints for audio files

3.2.12 (12 August 2025)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added a filter to remove dns-prefetch or preconnect for improved resource loading control
Reduced SQL queries that were causing performance spikes, resulting in better overall performance
Fixed assets to sync automatically upon plugin updates

3.2.11 (30 June 2025)

Fixes and Improvements:

Cron jobs now disabled by default to reduce unnecessary requests
Updated REST API in FAQ to support enabling/disabling the cron jobs

3.2.10 (24 June 2025)

Fixes and Improvements:

Upgraded the Cloudinary Video Player to v3.0.2

3.2.9 (24 June 2025)

Fixes and Improvements:

Upgraded the Cloudinary Video Player to v3.0.1
Improved cronjob stability with a new “enabled by default” check
Fixed a relationship table issue affecting the Timber theme

3.2.8 (04 June 2025)

Fixes and Improvements:

Minor bug fixes and improvements

3.2.7 (06 May 2025)

Fixes and Improvements:

Upgraded the Cloudinary Video Player to v2.3.5
Reduced excessive REST API calls
Fixed a compatibility issue with the Next Bricks page builder
Resolved an Uncaught DivisionByZeroError related to breakpoints
Fixed an overlay issue where granular position control on the X and Y axes was not respected
Fixed an error related to rest_request_before_callbacks

3.2.6 (24 March 2025)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed debug warning message in class-media.php on line 1941
Resolved certain block validation errors in the Block Patterns UI
Fixed an issue with rendering interactive 3D GLB formats

3.2.5 (19 February 2025)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed issue where the smallest image was not being generated by responsive breakpoints
Resolved deprecation notice appearing on every page in PHP 8.0+
Updated FAQ to include details on our new WPML compatibility

3.2.4 (14 January 2025)

Fixes and Improvements:

Upgraded the Cloudinary Video Player to v2.2.0
Fixed image block validation errors in the Block Patterns UI
Resolved image block error messages that required recovery
De-registered all Cloudinary cron jobs when deactivating the plugin

3.2.3 (03 December 2024)

Fixes and Improvements:

Resolved broken dependencies on WordPress 6.7
Fixed a file existence check that caused a plugin crash
Addressed an issue preventing the activation of the crop and gravity beta feature at the asset level
Fixed the timing of when translations are loaded to comply with updated WordPress initialization requirements

3.2.2 (28 October 2024)

Fixes and improvements:

Clarified the concept of global transformations across plugin settings and post types
Improved CLI sync reliability
Fixed PDF files not showing as embedded from the media library
Fixed image block errors causing block recovery prompts
Added compatibility for password-protected websites

3.2.1 (18 September 2024)

Fixes and improvements:

Added Cloud name and plan information to the Dashboard and sidebar
Improved the wizard workflow and enhanced security
Fixed several PHP errors

3.2.0 (03 September 2024)

Fixes and improvements:

Added an option to resolve Cloudinary sync errors, accessible both from the Cloudinary dashboard and the WordPress media library
Introduced a new $29/month Small Plan for free users looking to enhance their Cloudinary experience
Fixed an issue with sitemaps that caused the duplication of query strings

3.1.9 (29 July 2024)

Fixes and improvements:

Added support for WPML
Updated the Wizard with new instructions for obtaining the Cloudinary API key
Fixed issue with downloaded fragments not being deleted

3.1.8 (25 March 2024)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added the Cloudinary for WordPress Administrators course as part of the plugin need help section
Added individual “Need Help? Watch Lessons Here!” call-outs at the top of every section as a tool tip, pointing to specific lessons where that section is covered
Updated the FAQ section
Upgraded the Cloudinary Video Player to v1.11.1
Fixed Cloudinary\tmpfile() undefined error log when importing assets from Cloudinary
Fixed md5() method deprecation warning in PHP 8.2

3.1.7 (21 February 2024)

Fixes and Improvements:

Upgraded the Cloudinary Video Player to v1.10.1
Added support for video analytics
Fixed Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method Cloudinary\\Delivery::clean_url() error message
Fixed individual transformations lost when upgrading the plugin version

3.1.6 (17 JANUARY 2024)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added support for video adaptive bitrate streaming protocols, HLS and MPEG-DASH
Implemented eagerly generating transformations for auto_formats to ensure faster delivery for both images and videos
Enable the Cloudinary video player when using a video URL in the video block
Fixed syncing and delivery of SVG files to Cloudinary
Resolved the issue of failure in fetching local data as it should appear on the plugin dashboard
Fixed a missing comma in the sizes attribute
Fixed the problem of extra query calls when no frontend URLs are detected
Fixed the extension being removed while using f_auto for video delivery
Resolved the issue of pushing staging assets to production, resulting in a full resync of the assets
Fixed invalid data in the additional settings block when editing the Cloudinary product gallery widget
Added a filter for extending eagerly generating transformations formats – cloudinary_upload_eager_formats
Added a filter for supporting different headless frontend domain – cloudinary_delivery_searchable_url
Added a filter for supporting different content URLs – cloudinary_content_url

3.1.5 (11 OCTOBER 2023)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added a filter for allowing RAW URLs for images – cloudinary_bypass_seo_url
Added a filter for better control of the SEO URL – cloudinary_seo_public_id
Fixed Cloudinary gallery compatibility issue with WooCommerce v7.8 and up
Fixed the double extension on RAW files

3.1.4 (23 AUGUST 2023)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed PHP warnings related to version 8.X

3.1.3 (19 JUNE 2023)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added filters to allow extended metadata sync from Cloudinary to WordPress
Added a filter to extend the limit of imported assets in a bulk from Cloudinary to WordPress
Added a beta feature by the use of filters in order change the Crop and Gravity controls
Fixed plan status in the Cloudinary dashboard page
Fixed saving the taxonomy transformations

3.1.2 (29 MARCH 2023)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed support for special characters as (^) causing a broken thumbnail
Fixed Cloudinary URLs for all non-media library assets
Fixed PHP error caused by transformations on unsupported file types

3.1.1 (06 MARCH 2023)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed the Add transformation on the media library for newly added assets
Fixed PHP warning in error log after upgrading to PHP 8/8.X

3.1 (22 FEBRUARY 2023)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added proactive mechanism that improves the support of synced assets using a cron job
Improved the very first initialisation of the setup wizard
Fixed the warning message when adding multi page PDFs
Fixed the Cloudinary status from the WP admin bar
Fixed the DivisionByZeroError Fatal error message

3.0.9 (25 OCTOBER 2022)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added support to bypass lazy-loading above-the-fold
Added flag to easily spot synced/un-synced assets via Media endpoint on REST API
Improved SVG support
Improved compatibility with older versions of WordPress
Fixed a post featured image Lazy-load conflict error
Fixed Fetched URLs being switched to URL of unsyncable/broken assets
Fixed taxonomy term ordering
Fixed deprecated warnings on PHP 8.1

3.0.8 (13 SEPTEMBER 2022)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added filters for capabilities checks
Fixed WebP being converted to gif when pulling assets from Cloudinary
Fixed Conflict with WP Rest API Cache where the plugin is ignoring Cloudinary URL
Fixed Lazy Loading breaks loading of images rendered from the headless source – WPGraphQL
Fixed PHPCompatibiltyWP missing from PHPCS config file
Improved PHP 8.X plugin compatibility
Improved Front-end JS compatibility issues originating from other media-related plugins
Improved Lazy Loading and general sliders compatibility issues

3.0.7 (01 August 2022)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed issue of transformations being lost while pulling an asset from Cloudinary

3.0.6 (25 July 2022)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed PHP Illegal string offset warning
Fixed Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function Cloudinary\\Media\\get_current_screen()
Fixed[WPGraphQL] Inconsistent media URLs in response
Fixed the alt-text on the initial import from Cloudinary
Improved Product gallery widget color palette compatibility with various themes
Moved asset transformations to relationship table
Added Support for upload_prefix in URLs
Updated the plugin deactivation screen

3.0.5 (29 June 2022)

Fixes and Improvements:

Add support for Cloudinary Dynamic Folders mode
Fixed Elementor compatibility issue – We’re sorry about that!
Fixed UTF-8 in Portuguese using Elementor
Fixed ACF encoding issue

3.0.4 (31 May 2022)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added an Overwrite Global Transformations checkbox on Add media modal, making it compatible with most page builders;
Image breakpoints page is now called Responsive images
Improved the location for DPR settings now under the Lazy Loading section
Improved the location for SVG settings now under the Additional image transformations field
Improved the UX when adding a domain for External Asset Sync Settings
Fixed Multisite environment PHP warning when plugin network activated
Fixed calling wp_calculate_image_srcset() in a multisite environment breaking the srcset
Fixed issue with get_the_post_thumbnail_url()
Fixed assets URLs stored on metadata
Fixed rendering responsive Cloudinary images by attachment id with cld_params on top of the global transformations
Fixed duplicate transformations and cld_params applied to URLs
Fixed images loaded via AJAX missing lazy-loading/responsive features
Fixed warning message when an image is deleted from the WordPress Media Library but still referenced in a Product Gallery Widget block
Fixed wp_get_attachment_*() functions returning the local path
Fixed header URLs not being replaced
Fixed issue with responsive Images when size-* class is not added
Fixed Cloudinary video player not working on CNAME cloud accounts

3.0.3 (26 April 2022)

Fixes and Improvements:

Updated Cloudinary video player to v1.9.0
Added a new filter for Unsynced assets in WordPress Media Library
Updated WP-CLI with --verbose and --export flags
Updated the Wizard screen with the new Cloudinary developer dashboard
Added an i=AA param at the end of a URL when using Cloudinary video player
Image nodes is now returning a Cloudinary URL when querying with WPGraphQL
Fixed error on a server running PHP 8.1.1
Fixed WooCommerce blurred images
Fixed referencing Cloudinary images after deleting plugin while using Divi theme
Fixed inconsistencies with headers and cover images aspect ratios
Fixed Media Library error when adding attributes product images via ACF + WooCommerce
Fixed Cloudinary video player fails to work on CNAME based cloud accounts

3.0.2 (08 March 2022)

Fixes and Improvements:

Improved system report error handling
Fixed compatibility issue with the FooGallery plugin
Fixed video dimensions attributes for imported video assets
Fixed the CLDBind not defined error message
Fixed WooCommerce gallery links
Fixed support for images with double extensions
Added support for the Brizy page builder
Added support for Querying raw HTML content with WPGraphQL – content only
Better handling UTF-8 characters

3.0.1 (18 January 2022)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added SVG support (beta)
Improved custom HTML for Featured images
Fixed extra request handling on faulty ‘srcset’
Improved how the plugin handles image cropping functionality
Fixed the URL where in some cases the delivery URL was wrong
Fixed db errors related to wp_cloudinary_relationships table
Fixed “Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘length’)” error
Fixed System report missing data

3.0.0 (06 December 2021)

Release of a new major version of the plugin

Entire new look and feel
New set-up wizard for a quick and simple configuration
New Dashboard displaying the optimization level of your site’s assets
New improved section of the dashboard displaying your Cloudinary’s plan details
New levels of optimization settings across the plugin screens
New asset sync settings which allows to sync additional media files such as themes & plugins
New External Asset Sync settings from specific external sources with Cloudinary
Cloudinary DAM as a new extension of the plugin
New lazy loading controls with built in simulation!
Added a preview to the Responsive images settings which now includes new DPR control
Granular control of asset transformations within the WordPress media library
New Cloudinary status as an extra information overlay on the frontend – images only
Brand new Help Centre screen

2.7.7 (11 October 2021)

Fixes and Improvements:

General improvement of the Cloudinary only storage
Improved the compatibility with future Gutenberg versions
Introduced filter support for external domains assets upload
Moved Cloudinary logs to it’s own meta key
Fixed the explicit delivery image file format
Fixed the grid view thumbnail sizes on WordPress media library

2.7.6 (16 August 2021)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added context to Cloudinary scripts to prevent conflict with other plugins
Fixed raw files delivery duplicating the file extension
Fixed typo when upgrading from v1 to v2 of the plugin
Fixed Cloudinary Only storage where image pulled from Cloudinary are saved locally

2.7.5 (20 July 2021)

Fixes and Improvements:

Decoupling Cloudinary metadata from attachment metadata
Fixed the duplicated suffix when re-syncing assets to Cloudinary
Added a query parameter to the requested URL’s

2.7.4 (23 June 2021)

Fixes and Improvements:

Improved the re-sync asset mechanism speed
Fixed compatibility issue with WP Webhooks plugin
Fixed invalid transformation message on the preview screen
Fixed the ordering of scaled transformations
Fixed legacy core compatibility issue on WP version prior to 5.3
Fixed the override the transformation of featured image
Fixed the system report which now includes Cloudinary’s configurations

2.7.3 (26 May 2021)

Fixes and Improvements:

Added support for setting the connection string as a constant
Fixed the asset suffix being duplicated in the metadata while asset is syncing
Fixed the default meta key on get_post_meta
Fixed the display of the “Uninitialized string offset: 0” notice

2.7.2 (11 May 2021)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed overriding files with the same name

2.7.1 (20 Apr 2021)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed support for syncing assets’ caption metadata
Added system report to the deactivation form
Product gallery scripts are now loaded only when needed
Fixed manual sync of a single asset
Fixed issues related to “Cloudinary only storage” option
Fixed delivery of fetched/other special image types from Cloudinary
Fixed an error when using the “Twenty Twenty” theme

2.7.0 (15 Mar 2021)

New Features:

All WordPress Media Library file types are now syncable to Cloudinary
Added system report for better support experience
Added bottom option into the product gallery main carousel parameter
Added Pad modes into the product gallery main viewer parameter
Added Fill modes into the product gallery main viewer parameter
Video player loading performance was improved

Fixes and Improvements:

Updated Cloudinary video player to version 1.5.1
Fixed product gallery in case of adding unsynced asset
Fixed WordPress Media Library error when editing an asset already synced to Cloudinary
Fixed sync failure for media added as an external URL by other plugins

2.6.0 (01 Feb 2021)

New Features:

Added a “wp cloudinary analyze” CLI command which returns the synchronization state of the assets
Added a “wp cloudinary sync” CLI command which triggers the synchronization of all pending assets

Fixes and improvements:

Sync process improvements
Sync process 1000 asset limitation was removed
Folder path now supports forward slashes
Deleting media on the WordPress media library will now delete them on Cloudinary
Fixed an infinite loading issue when using videos
Fixed compatibility issues with Smush plugin
Fixed compatibility issues with using the Cloudinary tab in ACF plugin
Minor cosmetic updates

2.5.0 (20 Jan 2021)

New Features:

Brand new user interface!
Introducing the Cloudinary Product Gallery (beta feature):\n
- We added a new ‘Cloudinary Gallery’ block to the Gutenberg Editor
- When using WooCommerce, you can now use the ‘Cloudinary Gallery’ as your default product gallery
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Added a rate-us link. Please rate us! 😉
Added support for conditional transformations

Fixes and improvements:

Improve the REST API capabilities for better integrability
Bug fixes

2.4.1 (07 Jan 2021)

Fixes and improvements:

Improved server calling efficiency
More fixes

2.4.0 (10 Nov 2020)

New Features:

Added breakpoints support for featured images
Global transformations on both Categories and Tags pages are now collapsible
On plugin deactivation, we will ask you to share with us the reason. It’s important to us 🙂

Fixes and improvements:

Fixed an issue with syncing a deleted asset
Improved the mechanism for removing the Cloudinary account
The warning message for exceeding the annual unit plan was revised
Improved the Alt text synchronization from Cloudinary to WordPress
Fixed WPBakery error when inserting an image by the WordPress editor
Fixed AMP plugin conflict issue

2.3.0 (05 Oct 2020)

New Features:

Added a poster image for video asset

Fixes and improvements:

Re-sync assets to user specified folder instead of root
Store the original uploaded image to cloudinary
Fixed ‘Resource not found’ error when changing credentials
Fixed incompatibility with text media block

2.2.1 (30 Sep 2020)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed an error when toggling ‘featured image overwrite’ on a custom post type

2.2.0 (08 Sep 2020)

New Features:

You can now off-load all assets from WordPress to Cloudinary!!
Automatically convert unsupported media file types (such as INDD, PSD, TIFF, etc) to WordPress supported file types
Synchronization mechanism was re-built and now exposes a more granular status updates
Lazy load polyfills for outdated browsers
Add the ability to overwrite the global transformation to a feature image
High quota usage alert is now dismissible
Updated Cloudinary brand

Fixes and Improvements:

Sync tab UI improvements
Various performance improvements
Fixed an issues where excessive transformations being created due to breakpoints not disabling
Sync assets to allow for unique naming, to prevent overwriting existing items

2.1.9 (04 Aug 2020)

Fixes and Improvements:

Upgraded the Cloudinary video version
Added two new synced icons: Downloading and Syncing meta data
Minor UI improvements
Bug fixes:\n
- Fixed the $wpsize_!_cld_full! param that can be observed in the Cloudinary URL
- Fixed wrong calculation of quota credits vs percentage
- Fixed Upload error on files over 100mb from the previous version
- Fixed the Ability of Changing the Public Id
- Fixed Interaction with code blocks with filters that might cause “invalid content”
- Fixed Overwrite transformations on videos
- Fixed excessive backslash stripping
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2.1.2 (09 Jun 2020)

Fixes and Improvements:

Fixed cases where the image size were added to the URL.
Added support to dashes (‘-‘) in the connection string.
Added an option to re-sync a single asset to Cloudinary.

2.1.1 (01 Jun 2020)

New features:

We now provide several options for the WPCloudinary sync, allowing you to better control your media:\n
- Bulk-sync – Will sync all assets with Cloudinary in a click-of-a-button.
- Auto-sync – Will sync new uploaded assets in an on-demand manner.
- Manual – Added a push to Cloudinary button to the Media Library bulk actions that allows syncing selected assets to Cloudinary.
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Global Transformations are now being applied to Featured Images.
Added an Account Status to the dashboard tab, displaying the account usage, quota and metrics.

Fixes and Improvements:

Improved the sync mechanism.
General bug fixes and performance improvements.
Improved error handling.

2.0.3 (03 Apr 2020)

Fix migration issue

2.0.0 (31 Mar 2020)

Release of a new major version of the plugin

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Boost the performance of your WordPress site by optimizing your images and videos with the Cloudinary WordPress Plugin. WordPress developers, content creators, and administrators can efficiently create, manage and deliver images and videos. The plugin scales from individual blogs to enterprise sites that deliver hundreds of thousands of images and videos and that need to be accessed across a variety of devices.

What can Cloudinary do for you?

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Automatically optimize and transform all your new and existing images and videos through best-in-class algorithms that improve site performance and SEO rankings. Check out some examples!
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Rapidly edit assets, via AI, that deepen engagement through capabilities such as smart cropping, thumbnail generation, automated transcoding, and more.
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Deliver dynamically created responsive images across various devices and different resolutions.
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Utilize lazy loading and customizable placeholders to load images that are viewed by your users.
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Support both headless and UI-based WordPress deployments, maintaining flexibility in website development.
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Maintain compatibility with popular page builders.
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Provide end-to-end support for the WooCommerce plugin.
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Stream videos using the Cloudinary Video Player, featuring advanced capabilities to enhance user engagement.
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Present a responsive and interactive Product Gallery for creating captivating visual experiences.
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About

Cloudinary’s award-winning plugin makes automating your image and video workflows easy, offering a variety of features. Supporting nearly two million developers and over 10,000 customers, Cloudinary enables companies to manage, transform, optimize and deliver image and video assets. The Cloudinary Plugin supports all these capabilities, providing users with a true plug-and-play solution. Getting started takes only minutes using the intuitive onboarding wizard.

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Learn more about the plugin with the Cloudinary Academy – Introduction to Cloudinary for WordPress Administrators
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After deployment, users can access a dashboard that provides insights into optimization metrics and data usage. The Cloudinary Plugin is based on an architecture that supports any type of site including business, enterprise and personal.

Optimize your site performance and user experience by achieving faster page load times and implementing advanced auto-responsive delivery. This not only improves your Google page rankings but also enhances Core Web Vitals, and Lighthouse scores. By leveraging features such as video and image optimization, advanced responsive design, customizable lazy loading, and built-in CDN support, you can publish content faster while consistently delivering engaging user experiences. The Plugin supports both headless and UI-based development models, and allows you to customize development and extend functionality with the Cloudinary Plugin actions and filters. Moreover, you can create engaging visual experiences with automated quality and encoding settings, video and image resizing and cropping via AI, comprehensive transformations and effects, and seamless delivery to any device in any resolution or pixel density.

Getting Started

To use the Cloudinary Plugin and all the functionality that comes with it, you will need to have a Cloudinary Account. If you don’t have an account yet, sign up now for a free Cloudinary Programmable Media account. You’ll start with generous usage limits and when your requirements grow, you can easily upgrade to a plan that best fits your needs. Upon account creation you can plug in your account credentials and customize your configurations as desired. That’s it.

About Cloudinary

Install from within WordPress

Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select Add New.
Search for Cloudinary.
Select Cloudinary – Image and Video Optimization, Manipulation, and Delivery from the list.
Activate Cloudinary from your Plugins page.
Go to Setting up below.

Install Cloudinary manually

Upload the Cloudinary folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the Cloudinary plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
Go to Setting up below.

Setting up

Once the plugin is activated, go to the Cloudinary settings.
You’ll be prompted to Add your Cloudinary URL.
Enter your Cloudinary environment variable URL, the format should be cloudinary://{API_Key}:{API_Secret}@{Cloud_Name} and can be found in the Account Details section of the Cloudinary Console Dashboard, then click save.
After saving, additional settings tabs will be available.

Note
\nIf you have two factor authentication configured for your account, you will need to open the Cloudinary Console and login before you can use the Cloudinary plugin.
\nYour site is now setup to start using Cloudinary.

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