About this plugin
Media Cloud Sync is an innovative plugin for WordPress that dramatically transforms how you interact with media and increases your website’s performance. This plugin allows you to transfer your files, media, and images from a WordPress server to online cloud storage, such as Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Google Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2 and S3 Compatible Services. It also rewrites URLs to serve files from the same storage provider or another CDN provider.
You can sync both new media files as well as existing media from your WordPress Media Library to your configured cloud storage, making it easy to sync older medias to cloud storage.
How to Manage Settings
To manage settings in the Media Cloud Sync plugin, follow these steps:
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Access the Plugin Menu:
- In your WordPress admin dashboard, look for the Media Cloud Sync menu item in the left menu bar. This menu provides access to all the settings and features of the plugin.
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Manage Settings:
- Click on the Media Cloud Sync menu to enter the settings area.
- You will see two main sections: Configure and Settings.
a. Configure:
- In this section, you can set up the basic configurations for the plugin, including connecting your cloud storage account (e.g., Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces, Cloudflare R2, S3 Compatible Services) and defining the default options for media offloading.
- Follow the prompts to authenticate your cloud account and grant the necessary permissions.
b. Settings:
- The Settings section allows for more advanced customization options. Here, you can adjust how media files are uploaded and served from the cloud.
- Make sure to save your changes after adjusting the settings to ensure they take effect.
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Review and Test:
- After configuring the settings, it’s advisable to test the plugin to ensure that your media files are being uploaded and served correctly from the cloud storage.
- Upload a new media file and check if it appears in your cloud storage as expected.
Basic Features
The Media Cloud Sync plugin significantly enhances your website’s speed by offloading media to cloud servers. This approach allows your site to load more efficiently, as it reduces the number of server requests, ultimately resulting in faster page load times. Once media files—such as images, videos, PDFs, and ZIP files—are uploaded to the cloud, your server no longer needs to handle these files, freeing up resources.
Here are the key features of the Media Cloud Sync plugin:
🔹 Seamlessly sync your media to popular cloud storage solutions like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces, Cloudflare R2, or S3 Compatible Services.
🔹 Sync existing media from your WordPress Media Library to the cloud with a simple migration tool.
🔹 Automatically delete files from the server after they are uploaded to the cloud, optimizing storage use.
🔹 Customize the base path for server storage to suit your organizational needs.
🔹 Tailor the URL structure for your media files to enhance your site’s SEO and user experience.
🔹 Enable object versioning to prevent invalidations of your media files.
🔹 Utilize a custom CDN for serving your media URLs, improving loading speeds and reliability.
🔹 Enjoy built-in support for WooCommerce, ensuring smooth integration with your online store.
🔹 Leverage compatibility with Advanced Custom Fields for enhanced flexibility.
🔹 Benefit from RTL (Right to Left) support for multilingual websites.
🔹 Access WPML string translation support for seamless multilingual content management.
🔹 Works on multisite networks, with each site set up independently.
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🔹 Optimize offloaded images with built-in Imagify support.
🔹 Copy settings to another site with Import / Export, previewing every change first.
🔹 Check storage, delivery, background jobs and memory in Site Health.
🔹 Run and monitor bulk sync from the command line with WP-CLI ( wp mcs ).
Pro Features
Media Cloud Sync Pro extends the free plugin with cloud-side management tools, faster bulk operations, and per-item control directly from the Media Library:
Media Library and delivery
🔹 Media Library actions — Sync to Cloud, Force Re-upload, Remove from Server, Restore from Cloud, Remove from Cloud, View on Cloud, Use Server URL / Cloud URL, Mark as Private / Public, and Purge CDN Cache, per item and in bulk, with a cloud status column and a Synced/Not Synced filter.
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🔹 Cache-Control duration — set a custom Cache-Control max-age (or explicit no-cache) per storage/CDN choice for newly uploaded files.
🔹 Include/Exclude Extensions — control exactly which file types get uploaded to the bucket.
🔹 File Manager — browse your connected bucket, download as zip, restore to server, move, and delete files, with per-item and bulk actions.
Bulk jobs
🔹 Ajax/Mixed sync methods — run bulk jobs live in the browser (Ajax) or with automatic WP-Cron fallback (Mixed), instead of Cron only.
🔹 Restore Media to Server — bring offloaded media back from the cloud to your server.
🔹 Remove Media from Server — delete the local copies of synced media (all sizes, originals and edit backups) after verifying every file in the cloud.
🔹 Remove Media from Cloud — delete synced media from the bucket, with an optional restore-to-server step first.
🔹 Move Media to New Path — move already-synced media to a newly configured base path.
🔹 Migrate Bucket to Bucket — copy synced media to a new provider, bucket, or account, without re-uploading from your server.
Tools
🔹 Import from Other Plugins — take over media already offloaded by WP Offload Media, Media Cloud, Offload Media – Cloud Storage, WP-Stateless or Advanced Media Offloader, without uploading it again.
🔹 Import from Bucket — connect media to files you already copied to the bucket, uploading only what is missing.
🔹 Repair Synced Media — check synced media in the bucket and upload any files that are missing there.
🔹 Update File Headers — apply your Cache-Control setting and the right content type to files already in the bucket.
🔹 Clean Up Unused Files — find files in the bucket that no synced media uses, review them, then delete them.
🔹 Clean Orphaned Records — remove records of media items that no longer exist, without deleting any files.
🔹 Export Media Inventory — download a CSV of every media file: its server path, bucket key, URL and sync status.
🔹 Change Storage Class — move older media to a cheaper storage class, now or automatically, without changing its URLs (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2).
🔹 Bucket CORS — let browsers load fonts, SVGs and video from your bucket on your site.
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🔹 Assets on CDN — serve theme, plugin and WordPress CSS, JS, fonts and images from a CDN on visitor pages.
🔹 WP-CLI — run every Pro job with wp mcs, plus restore, remove-local and purge-cdn commands.
Third-party compatibility
🔹 WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads downloadable files, BuddyBoss Platform, WPML, Elementor, Divi, Enable Media Replace, EWWW Image Optimizer, Meta Slider, and Smush all stay in sync with cloud storage.
🔹 And more…
Other Useful Links
🔹 Official website
🔹 Documentation
🔹 Get Media Cloud Sync Pro
External Services
This plugin integrates with third-party services to enhance its functionality. Below is an overview of the external services utilized, the data transmitted, and relevant legal documentation for your reference.
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Google Cloud Storage
- Description: Connects to manage media files, allowing upload, download, and delete operations.
- Data Sent: User authentication data, file metadata (name, size, MIME type), user location data (if explicitly provided).
- Legal Links: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy
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Amazon S3
- Description: Facilitates media file management, enabling seamless upload, download, and delete actions.
- Data Sent: User authentication data, file metadata (name, size, MIME type).
- Legal Links: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy
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DigitalOcean Spaces
- Description: Manages media files efficiently, allowing file storage, retrieval, and deletion.
- Data Sent: User authentication data, file metadata (name, size, MIME type).
- Legal Links: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy
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Cloudflare R2
- Description: Provides efficient, low-cost object storage with S3-compatible APIs, enabling seamless upload, retrieval, and deletion of media files.
- Data Sent: User authentication data, file metadata (name, size, MIME type).
- Legal Links: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy
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S3 Compatible Services
- Description: Manages media files efficiently, allowing file storage, retrieval, and deletion.
- Data Sent: User authentication data, file metadata (name, size, MIME type).