WP Offload Media Lite for Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, and Google Cloud Storage

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82 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 52 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Crossed into this band 19 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Imad Abboushi

   6mo ago

   I was looking for a tool to offload my site images. Claude recommended this one, and honestly when you use a tool that is crucial to the site you want it to be 4.5 stars and higher!! Since most negative reviews were old, or installation related, I decided to take the plunge in hope things have improved in recent updates. What I discovered is yes, many reviews are correct in that installation is difficult, however, it is not the plugin fault! I have the same nightmare every time I deal with AWS services. Very fussy setup, extremely complex and keeps changing so your documentation never match the latest AWS setup. Thank God these days we have Claude. So open a new chat window with Claude, and the complex installation becomes easier (still not easy), but manageable. Once done, the tools will move your images to S3 (other choices are available too), replacing them in my WP directory with an S3 address. Main thing I tested for is: site response is still good, CPU was impacted during the transfer of images, but no noticeable difference after that. The only thing I would recommend for the company is to apply more AI based search capabilities in their support system. I encountered a “warning” that I could not resolve even after spending a good amount of time looking through their docs. They offer email support from within the plugin which is descent.

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2. ★★★★★ gasoj

   1.1y ago

   UNIQUE KEY uidx_path (path(190), id),is the same likeKEY uidx_path (path(190))nothing of uniq! This topic was modified 10 months ago by gasoj.

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3. ★★★★★ happywbyorg

   1.2y ago

   S3 and cloudfront setup is really difficult and time consuming. But the plugin provides very good documentation and fast tech support. And signed url with referal Referer works. Thank you.

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4. ★★★★★ vinhdatgn

   1.6y ago

   I’ve been using it for all of my websites but It stopped working 3-5 months ago. I couldn’t select any bucket at all although it’s creating new one (still nothing happened after clicking, only appear new bucket after hitting F5).

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5. ★★★★★ trondandre1962

   1.7y ago

   Warning! Do not buy from this company. We paid 249 USD and asked for a refund as stated on the Delicious website. They also state that you do not need to provide any reason for a refund.We have not received any response and it has now been 3 weeks without a response even though we have sent several emails about this to them. They give the impression of being serious but when it comes to providing a refund as promised they neither respond nor provide a refund.

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6. ★★★★★ luizargument

   1.7y ago

   A life-saving plugin. Simple and objective.

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7. ★★★★★ peterzzzzzzz

   1.8y ago

   I can imagine this works great, but it took me a lot of time to configure, before realising this is very expensive 🙁

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8. ★★★★★ heroicpursuits

   1.8y ago

   Worthless plugin that breaks your site. Their support are incompetent and do not care about you as the customer. Stay FAR away from this plugin unless you enjoy problems with your site!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. 2026-10-28 Version 3.4.4 Security: It’s no longer possible for a site administrator without network management privileges to craft REST requests to alter options Security: Authentication is now required to pause & resume the current upgrade rout 3.4.4
2. 2026-09-21 Version 3.4.3 Bug fix: A non-numeric attachment ID passed to wp_get_attachment_image_src() by a theme or plugin no longer results in a fatal error Bug fix: Attachment metadata carrying an image size entry without a filename no longer 3.4.3
3. 2026-09-07 Version 3.4.2 Bug fix: A null attachment ID passed to get_attached_file() by another plugin no longer results in a fatal error Bug fix: Upgrading while using PHP 8.5 on a multisite no longer raises a fatal error in the cron job in som 3.4.2
4. 2026-09-04 Version 3.4.1 Bug fix: Rejecting non-string content in AS3CF_Filter::process_content() no longer results in a fatal error 3.4.1
5. 2026-09-03 Version 3.4.0 Release Summary Blog Post New: For improved performance, a new custom table stores information about each offloaded file New: WordPress 7.1 compatible New: AWS PHP SDK has been updated to v3.392.1 New: Google Cloud Stora 3.4.0
6. 2026-04-15 Version 3.3.1 New: Google Cloud Storage SDK has been updated to v1.49.2 New: PHP and JS dependencies have been updated New: WordPress 7.0 compatible Improvement: The current bucket’s location is no longer checked when the region is de 3.3.1

The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (3.4.4). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 5.3 guzzlehttp/psr7 < 1.9.1 & 2.4.5 - Interpretation Conflict ↗
   2023-04-17 CVE-2023-29197 Interpretation Conflict Affects < 3.2.2 Patched in 3.2.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 9 languages, 1 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-04-05 40K+ → 30K+ down after 3 days in tier
2. 2025-04-02 30K+ → 40K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2025-03-30 40K+ → 30K+ down after 2 days in tier
4. 2025-03-28 30K+ → 40K+ up after 14 days in tier
5. 2025-03-14 40K+ → 30K+ down after 2 days in tier
6. 2025-03-12 30K+ → 40K+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2025-03-10 40K+ → 30K+ down after 16 days in tier
8. 2025-02-22 30K+ → 40K+ up after 21 days in tier

Competes with

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WP Offload Media Lite for Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, and Google Cloud Storage: 30K+ active installs, 3.7★ (115 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront