233 - Store your Media Library in the cloud with the Infinite Uploads plugin

Interview with Nathan Wrigley and Josh Dailey

WordPress websites all have a Media Library, I’m sure that you knew that, right! But what you might not know is that there’s now a plugin that with add some superpowers to the Media Library and make it work in a more ‘modern’ way.

Meet Infinite Uploads, a plugin that puts all your media into the cloud and delivers it via their fast and robust CDN.

What’s the point of that? I hear you cry! well, I’m glad that you asked because that’s the purpose of the WP Builds podcast today! Josh Dailey, the co-founder of the plugin is here to explain what it does, how it does it and why you might want it.

Really, it all comes down to peace of mind. The WordPress media library is fine… it stores your media and when it’s needed on your website, it serves it up. But the internet has become more demanding, people are consuming more, expecting things that happen faster, and it might be that your website host won’t be able to keep up quite as well as a CDN (Content Delivery Network) that it custom built to do the job of storing your media and serve it up.

It might be that you have ‘affordable’ hosting which has pretty low caps on bandwidth, or perhaps it’s just a box somewhere in the world and someone viewing your website in another part of the world will have a worse experience. You get the idea…

Infinite Uploads is here to make things fast and easy.

They’ve built it so that you don’t need to think too hard either. You install their plugin, run a quick scan and you’re done. All your existing media and new media is pulled up to their CDN and served from there. Your clients won’t even noticed that anything has changed, except perhaps the speed of their site loading and Core Web Vitals scores!

Of course you have to pay for the storage and the bandwidth, but that’s pretty simple too. You only pay for the storage you use and the bandwidth you consume, so there’s no hard-to-understand tiers to worry about.

Choose the starter plan or bump it up to the business plan to add a custom name to your CDN for a little extra SEO boost.

We also talk about how this might work well for you agency owners who could have this as an add-on service, and what technology they have in place to ensure that there’s ‘no files left behind’, media that ought to be on the website, but somehow got lost in transit. They go the extra mile to ensure that you don’t delete anything locally until it’s 100% backed up on their end.

We also get into what you can do should you wish to move on and discontinue using the plugin. The last think that you want is to have all your media held hostage, and Josh explains how that all works too. Put simply, you can get all your media back in your library at any time you like by clicking a few buttons. Nice!

So if you’re thinking that your site is growing up needs have it’s media spread around the globe with +50 points of presence, check out the Infinite Uploads plugin today on the WP Builds podcast.

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Infinite Uploads website

Infinite Uploads on the WordPress Repo.