Upcasted S3 Offload – AWS S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Backblaze, MinIO Storage Integration

To use this plugin you will have to:

For AWS S3:

1. Create an AWS S3 account: How to create an AWS S3 account?
2. Generate your “Access key ID” and “Secret access key”
3. Create your IAM credentials and copy them somewhere safe to use in plugin settings

For other S3 storage providers:

1. Choose an S3 compatible storage provider and create an account
2. Generate and copy your “Access key ID” and “Secret access key”
3. Find and copy your “custom endpoint” details

Installation and Configuration:

To configure the plugin all you have to do is to follow these simple steps:
1. Install AWS S3 Offload
2. If you need the extra features upgrade to PRO
3. Go to: Admin dashboard -> Media -> S3 Offload Settings
4. Add your “Access key ID”, “Secret access key” and “Region”
5. If you use Linode Object Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces, DreamObjects, Wasabi, Vultr Object Storage or any other S3 compatible storage provider you also need to define a custom endpoint in plugin’s setting. You can usually find this in your storage provider documentation.
5. Click on Save Settings
6. Select your already created bucket or create a new one (you can create a new bucket from the plugin’s interface if you have a PRO license)
7. Click on Save

All done!

Now you have a seamless integration between your WordPress Media Library and S3 storage.
All the future images you upload in your WordPress Media Library will be automatically be moved to S3 storage and are served to you and to your visitors from S3 servers.

Helpful articles:

1. AWS S3 – What is it, why does it help you and how to create an AWS account today?
2. How to create an Amazon S3 bucket and generate your IAM credentials (API key and Secret key) using the new 2022 AWS S3 interface?

How it works?

1. After you set the “Mandatory Settings” and select a bucket, the plugin will automatically move all the newly added files to your bucket.
2. If you have a PRO license, you have some extra tools. They will assist you in moving your old files from media library to S3 and backwards.

How to check if everything is working properly?

1. Set the Mandatory Settings of the plugin below and click “Save Settings”
2. Select your bucket and click “Save”
3. Go to Media Library and upload a file (an image is better for testing purposes)
4. Check to see if you can view the file. If it’s an image you should see the preview.
5. Check the URL of that file. You should see the new URL. You can compare it with the URL of an old file.

How to debug an issue?

1. Edit your wp-config.php file and turn on debug mode and debug log
2. Go to wp-content and search for debug.log if you can find a file with that name already there please rename it to something else or delete it if you don’t need the old logs.
3. Repeat the opperation that you were trying to do when you had trouble.
4. Check the contents of debug.log and try to find out what went wrong. On that log you can see all the errors, notices and warnings timestamped in chronological order.
5. Depending on what you see in your debug log, disable your plugins that throw errors one by one and repeat steps 3-4 until is working.
6. This way you will be able to find out if the problem is caused by another plugin.
7. If you can’t figure it out, let us know on the forums or go to our website and write to us.!