DailyBlogr - Use media files a lot ? Save bandwidth with Amazon S3 plugin for WordPress

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If youre the type of blogger who uses lots of media, like images, video, and files on your website, then youre going to need some solid bandwidth to make them all available smoothly. For this, normally webmasters use the S3 (Simple Storage Service) Amazon cloud, that is an excellent service to store your media files and make them available where ever you want on the web !

So if you have lot of media on the site, go for Amazon S3, and if you use Amazon S3 already, heres a brand new plugin that will help you use it seamlessly with WordPress.

The Amazon S3 WordPress Plugin What it does ?

- Transfers all the images/media in your WordPress blog to the Amazon S3 cloud on its own.

- Transfers any image/media file in old posts to Amazon S3 cloud automatically.

- Saves bandwidth by heaps and bounds on your website.

- No settings required, no tweaking, no hassle.

- Easy as Plug and play

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Some in-depth details from the author

1. It will not create any Amazon S3 buckets
2. It will not work if you have not configured your wordpress corn file [wp-cron.php]
3. You have to have a make sure s3temp folder is writable on the media upload folder. This help the plugin to avoid database hit for checking  the availability of the files in S3 cloud.
4. This plugin will not manage the files in Amazon S3 cloud. You can use S3fm or S3Fox
5. If you want to reset the files and upload everything again, please delete all files in s3 folder, delete the files in S3 bucket or use a new bucket.

The plugin is available for download from WordPress here.

Authors website – Imthi

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