About this plugin
FolderBloom turns a folder in your Dropbox or OneDrive into a polished section of your website: a searchable file library, a photo gallery, a slideshow, a before-and-after slider, a sortable table or a restaurant menu. When you add or replace a file in the folder, your website shows the new version after FolderBloom syncs — no re-uploading to WordPress.
This plugin adds one shortcode, [folderbloom], so you can place a FolderBloom embed anywhere in WordPress: in a post or page, in a Shortcode block, in a widget, or in a page builder’s shortcode element.
You need a FolderBloom account to use this plugin. com; publishing on a website requires a paid FolderBloom plan for that website. You can connect a folder and preview the result for free.
What you can show
- File libraries — list, compact list, cards or thumbnail grid, with search, sorting, document previews and downloads.
- Photo galleries — masonry or uniform grids, slideshows, before-and-after sliders, single images and logo carousels.
- Spreadsheets — an Excel or CSV file as a live, sortable table, a restaurant menu or a recipe.
- Single-file buttons — one file, or always the newest file in a folder, as a download button.
- Private folders — password-protected folders and invite-only client folders stay hidden until visitors are allowed in.
Restaurant menus are part of your page
org Menu data, so search engines read it as part of your site. Add inline="no" to use the regular embed instead.
Your files stay where they are
FolderBloom reads your folder with read-only permission and never changes or deletes your files. Nothing is copied into your WordPress media library.
External services
com), the service that hosts your embeds. It is required for the plugin to work; without it the shortcode shows nothing.
- In visitors’ browsers: on pages that contain the [folderbloom] shortcode, the plugin loads FolderBloom’s embed script from https://folderbloom.com/embed.js. The script then loads the embed (file list, gallery and so on) from folderbloom.com. Like any web request, this sends the visitor’s IP address and browser details, plus the page address and the embed id, to folderbloom.com. Previews and downloads of files are served by folderbloom.com. FolderBloom does not set advertising or tracking cookies and does not store visitors’ IP addresses with download statistics.
- From your WordPress server: when a page shows the shortcode, the plugin asks https://folderbloom.com/api/public/menu/<embed id> whether the embed is a restaurant menu, so it can print the menu into the page. Only the embed id is sent. The answer is cached for 5–10 minutes. The menu’s HTML is filtered with WordPress’s allowed-HTML rules; its styles are bundled with the plugin.
FolderBloom is provided by Kushner Management Company LLC.
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