S3 Secure URL

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1. ★★★★★ halraitt

   9.8y ago

   Great plug-in. I’m setting up a paywalled website for teachers with a lot of large PDFs and Powerpoints that I’m storing on AWS. They obviously need to be private URLs, but I couldn’t figure out where to start with signing a private URL even after reading all of this: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/private-content-signed-urls.html#private-content-how-signed-urls-work. But Max’s great plug-in (and quick response to my newbie query) are perfect: • connect up to AWS using your IAM key and the only two fields in the simple config • wrap a shortcode round your link text, with the name of your S3 bucket and the path • plug-in generate a temporary link on each page load, so if the user’s logged-in on a role-protected page, only they will be able to generate signed links. Simples. Not that I could do it myself, tho, of course. This topic was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by halraitt.

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-08-07 50+ → 40+ down after 232 days in tier
2. 2025-12-18 60+ → 50+ down after 31 days in tier
3. 2025-11-17 50+ → 60+ up after 18 days in tier
4. 2025-10-30 60+ → 50+ down after 272 days in tier
5. 2025-01-31 70+ → 60+ down after 8 days in tier
6. 2025-01-23 60+ → 70+ up after 39 days in tier
7. 2024-12-15 70+ → 60+ down after 74 days in tier
8. 2024-10-02 80+ → 70+ down after 2 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• H Host your blog on S3 or Google Cloud Storage 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags D
• W WP2Cloud 10+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags D
• WP Offload Media Lite for Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, and Google Cloud Storage 30K+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags B
• SMTP for Amazon SES – YaySMTP 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• WPAdmin AWS CDN 400+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B
• A Amazon S3 for WordPress 80+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D

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S3 Secure URL: 40+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/s3-secure-url