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DigitalOcean Spaces Quick Start Guide

Introduction This guide aims to help you start offloading your WordPress Media Library to a DigitalOcean Spaces bucket with WP Offload Media as quickly as possible. If you’re already using…

Ian

Sep 28, 2018

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Google Cloud Storage Quick Start Guide

Introduction This guide aims to help you start offloading your WordPress Media Library to a Google Cloud Storage bucket with WP Offload Media as quickly as possible. We also have…

Liz Lockard

Oct 23, 2018

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Wasabi Cloud Storage Quick Start Guide

While WP Offload Media does not officially support Wasabi Cloud Storage as a storage provider for offloading your WordPress Media Library to, that doesn’t mean you can’t use it! We…

Ian

Sep 29, 2020

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Assets Quick Start Guide

With the Assets feature you can start serving your site’s assets (CSS, JS, fonts, etc) from CloudFront, or another CDN in just a few clicks. The Assets functionality is available…

Ian

Sep 29, 2022

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Why Use a CDN?

Offloading your Media Library items to cloud storage such as Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces or Google Cloud Storage is a great way of reducing server load or hosting providers’ bandwidth…

Ashley

Oct 23, 2015

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How to Change Storage Provider

If you have WP Offload Media set up with either Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces or Google Cloud Storage and want to move your media to one of the other providers,…

Ian

Mar 15, 2019

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How to Restrict Access to Offloaded Media

WP Offload Media has the ability to set offloaded Media Library items as being “private”. When a media item is private, access to it is restricted to signed URLs that…

Ian

Jul 14, 2020

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Block All Public Access to Bucket

When creating a new Amazon S3 bucket via the AWS Console, by default no public access is allowed to the objects. Depending on how you intend to use the bucket…

Ian

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Amazon S3 Bucket Object Ownership

In our Amazon S3 Quick Start Guide, we discuss how to configure WP Offload Media to create a new S3 bucket from the plugin interface. We also cover how you…

Jonathan

Apr 28, 2022

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How to Serve Private Media via Signed Amazon CloudFront URLs

In this guide you’ll learn how to configure Amazon CloudFront and WP Offload Media to enable signed expiring CloudFront URLs for offloaded Media Library items that should have restricted access.…

Ian

Jul 14, 2020