Wordpress Amazon S3 Plugin - RML for S3 & CloudFront

Current version

Version 2.4.0 – Changelog

May 22nd 2019 - v2.4.0

New: Option to replace the local media library with a S3 remote library
New: Video & Audio playlist support
New: Now supports cropping made via Yoimages cropping plugin
New: Added S3-API compatible wasabi service endpoints
New: Support for the new Divi builder
New: Add hook on item uploaded
Fix: Deletion was failing for objects with key contaiining spaces
Fix: Video embed insertion to classic editor
Fix: On remote library settings page, make sure to hide fields that do not apply for the selected settings
Tweak: Update latest AWS S3 bucket regions list to include AP (Hong Kong) and EU (Stockholm)
Tweak: Improve handling of failure when deleting an object
Tweak: For S3-API compatible custom enpoints, allow setting a custom bucket region

December 22nd 2018 - v2.3.3

Tweak: Improve migration replace process to run over 4 sequential smaller processes to be less database heavy and improve stability.
Fix: Upload was failing when library was using access keys defined via wp-config constants.
Fix: Now returns full image when theme requested image size is bigger than full image.
Fix: Fetching single remote image sizes was failing whenever the image thumbnails were manually removed.

December 7th 2018 - v2.3.2

Fix: Failing to generate thumbnails for objects which key contains spaces.
Fix: Copy to local of audio and video files was not producing a local url.
Fix: Copy to local option now working for divi builder.
Fix: Copy to local option was failing when libraries from different services were using the copy to local option.
Fix: Saving of Remote Media Settings metabox options was failing under certain conditions.
Fix: Remote Media Settings metabox was duplicated when others plugin from the RML suite are installed.

December 3rd 2018 - v2.3.1

Fix: Remove PHP notice occuring when a media item with an empty alt text was copied to local library.
Fix: Prevent error when bucket object is no longer accessible.
Fix: Allow images of 0 bytes to work has thumbnail.
Fix: Folder filter would not select back to all folders properly since last update.
Fix: Thumbnail generation tool status was not accurate since last update.
Tweak: Improve migration process to run on shared host servers that impose strict time execution limit of less than 30 seconds.
Tweak: Assets module validation process to be less vulnerable to 3rd party plugins conflicts.

November 1st 2018 - v2.3.0

New: Module for Easy Digital Downloads. Enables expiring links to private bucket objects for user download using S3 pre-signed URLs.
Fix: Bucket objects listing edge case. When the last object of a page was not of the filtered mime type, the previous object was not displayed.
Fix: Remove application of intermediate_image_sizes_advanced filter. This was not needed and applied in a context that could cause conflicts with other plugins.
Tweak: Update DreamObjects default endpoint to their new west server.

October 16th 2018 - v2.2.0

New: Assets CDN module. This allows serving of your theme and plugins assets from CDN like CouldFront.
New: Introducing support for Elementor page builder.
New: Add remote libraries support for ACF options page and front-end forms
Tweak: Improve performance when theme requests for an image that is bigger than available full size to return full size directly.
Tweak: Improve Gutenberg support. Folder filter was displayed with a too short width.
Tweak: Improve handling of scripts and styles to facilitate re-use and 3rd party plugins integrations.

September 3rd 2018 - v2.1.0

Add option to use defined access keys constants in wp-config.php.
Fix: insert button text display issue for 3rd parties custom fields when copy to local option is selected.
Fix: metadata saving could fail when file path includes special characters.

August 22nd 2018 - v2.0.0

Significant code optimization and structure update to better co-exist and communicate with other services of RML plugins
Introducing compatibility for Master Slider plugin
Fix: copying attachment details when copying media to local library
Optimization of remote media delete process

August 15th 2018 - v1.12.1

Fix: image sizes generation could fail when triggered from the theme front-end.

June 12th 2018 - v1.12.0

Improved search filter to get all media items which key contains the search keyword instead of default Amazon search by prefix

May 4th 2018 - v1.11.0

New media uploading option to imitate Wordpress behavior, skipping manual selection of bucket folder and automatically upload media to current monthly upload folder (YYYY/MM)
New library option to copy to local library when inserting media and host locally instead of hosting from Amazon S3 bucket to save bandwidth
Multisite: Added option to share library across a selection of sites

April 3rd 2018 - v1.10.5

Added 2 filters to provide developers with flexibility for generating bucket objects URLs: ocs_rml_awss3_bucket_host and ocs_rml_awss3_object_url

March 24th 2018 - v1.10.4

Fix: Prevent failing and display last error encountered thumbnail generation error
Fix: Bucket images under a folder name containing special characters (spaces, + signs, ...) were not always fetching sizes properly
Tweak: When original image size is small, allow it to display as preview thumbnail
Tweak: Thumbnail generation now generates medium size instead of thumbnail size to match WP core behavior

March 9th 2018 - v1.10.3

Added option to enable daily cron job for generating preview thumbnails automatically
Now thumbnails generation task runs in background
Added methods to help integrate with themes that use image resizing on the fly
Now requires RML 1.5.1 to fix bucket settings validation
Fix: Thumbnail generation was only limited to 1000 images at a time
Fix: Themes with a custom size of same dimensions than WP core thumbnail size were not displaying preview image thumbnails
Fix: Allow display of bucket items attachment pages from gallery
Fix: Bucket images with uppercase file extensions were not fetching sizes properly
Tweak: Improved library setting page when creating new S3 remote library for more clarity

February 22nd 2018 - v1.10.2

Fix: thumbnail generation of images with a name that contains special characters (spaces, plus sign, ...) was failing
Improve thumbnail generation tool to display better error details on failure

February 19th 2018 - v1.10.1

Added latest bucket regions: Europe (Paris), China (Beijing), China (Ningxia) and Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local).

December 15th 2017 - v1.10.0

Introduce support for Beaver Builder
Performance improvement when querying for multiple objects: add caching of bucket root url instead of computing full object url
Enables query attachment by mime type
Optimize parsing method of bucket objects. Now uses less memory specially when dealing with buckets with a lot objects

November 24th 2017 - v1.9.0

Now requires RML 1.5.0 for compatibility with WP 4.9.0
For Multisite: Added option to share libraries across all sub sites of network

November 9th 2017 - v1.8.0

Introduce support for WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer)
Introduce support for Gutenberg
Improve support of themes metabox custom fields to allow multiple selection and display selection properly
Fix: migration log errors for PHP5

October 2nd 2017 - v1.7.1

Adjustments to add support for Avada / Fusion Builder image and gallery elements
Improved migration tool to generate error in log migrate.log and continue when an item fails to migrate
Added migration option to skip migrating items that already exist in bucket

September 25th 2017 - v1.7.0

Added option to connect to different service endpoints like local version of Amazon S3, or other S3 API compatible services like DreamObjects
Fix: Permanently deleting object was returning error even if delete was completed

September 19th 2017 - v1.6.0

Introducing new migration feature. Now possible to backup, migrate & replace all local media items.
Fix: Loading translation files
Fix: Improved handling of remote metadata (title, description, caption and alt text) for sharing accross sites.
Fix: Attachment details was not showing for audio files
Improve compatibility with plugin ACF PRO

August 24th 2017 - v1.5.2

Tweak: To match wordpress behavior and for third party plugins compatibility, generate attachment in DB when object is inserted via editor
Tweak: When CNAME record is set, try accessing object directly when it fails via CNAME host
Fix: Bypass cache when generating metadata after thumbnails are generated to ensure accurate data

August 15th 2017 - v1.5.1

Introducing support of AWS CloudFront
Fix: Set gallery remote attachments by chunks to prevent hitting server post_max_size limit when adding 100+ images to gallery.
Fix: Creating of large galleries (100+ images) could be rejected by server max_input_vars limit.

August 3rd 2017 - v1.5.0

Speed up navigation with session caching of S3 API Requests
Introducing support of Divi builder
Fix: prevent full data from loading in memory that can cause memory exhaustion
Fix: some images sizes could be missed when parsing image data at the edge of the API request page

July 28th 2017 - v1.4.1

Fix: prevent execution timeout when creating large galleries
Fix: image metadata update was causing permission reset

July 26th 2017 - v1.4.0

Now syncing image details with metadata like title, caption, alt text, description
Now possible to permanently delete objects
Fix: IE 11 script error affecting galleries

July 12th 2017 - v1.3.2

Optimize image sizes handling when sharing media library across sites with different themes and image sizes
Introducing compatibility support of Polylang

June 28th 2017 - v1.3.1

Stability improvements
More gracefully handles multiple upload errors.
Fix thumbnails generation metabox tool bug

June 23rd 2017 - v1.3.0

Introducing support for multiple files uploads
Introducing support for Search by prefix
Fix detection of RML plugin requirement that has been network activated

May 15th 2017 - v1.2.0

Introducing metabox tool to generate thumbnails

May 3rd 2017 - v1.1.1

Fix upload of media for buckets with virtual host option enabled

April 30th 2017 - v1.1.0

Added URLs protocol and format options with support for virtual hosting of buckets

April 5th 2017 - v1.0.0

Initial release

RML for Amazon S3 and CloudFront

Complete and flexible CDN solution for WordPress

RML for Amazon S3 gives you access to your buckets media items right into the WordPress Media Library. It allows you to browse and search through all your bucket objects with folder filters and then quickly insert them to your posts or pages, use them as feature images or create galleries just as if the they were in your local WordPress Media Library. You have options to serve your file with the default S3 objects URL, with virtual hosting of bucket or with Amazon CloudFront distribution network. This will not only speed up your site, but also enables you to share the same media library across multiple sites. Even more, the plugin provides you tools to efficiently manage your remotely hosted media items like a migration tool and image thumbnail generating tool. All of this professionally made with care for every details. Seriously!

Top features

Live Bucket Access

Use your Amazon S3 buckets as media libraries

Unlimited

Connect as many buckets as you want and with as many media files as you want. No limit!

Share media across multiple sites

Connect your sites to the same S3 bucket and share the media items across multiple sites

Upload directly to S3

Easy uploads to your buckets from any WordPress post or page

Speed up your site ...fast.

Easily migrate your media to your S3 bucket with our migration tool. You can backup all your media library items to your bucket and optionally replace the links of your local media items with their S3 hosted counterpart. Then, benefit from Amazon CloudFront CDN power by setting up the plugin to serve your items from it.

Your bucket is full already?

You already have a S3 bucket full of media items? Unlock access to it. Create a remote library with your bucket settings and right there you will have a live view of your bucket content available in your media library menu for you to use. No sync needed. You still have access to your local media library.

Share media library across multiple site

Stop uploading the same file over and over again. Choose the bucket you want in your media library menu and upload directly to your bucket. Your sites have different themes and do not use the same images sizes? No worries. The plugin automatically generates any missing thumbnails whenever you insert an image on your site. Upload once, use anywhere. Also your media items metadata is saved using S3 objects metadata keeping your metadata like title, alt text, caption, description in synced across all your sites. For example, change an image description on one site and it will be available everywhere. Your sites are set up on a multisite installation? Use our multisite support license and share the same media library within your multisite network.

Start smart

Build your site for speed right from the start. Setup your development site to use media hosted on S3 and easily deploy to production without the need to deploy any media items!

Full feature list

Browse content by folder and/or filter with a text search of object keys
Generates image sizes automatically when needed
Keeps your media items metadata in sync across your sites
Upload directly to your bucket
Option to keep your local media library or replace it with a S3 hosted library
Backup & Migrate your local media items
Generates image thumbnails
Virtual Hosting of Buckets
Amazon CloudFront
Connect to any S3 API compatible service endpoint
Option to generate private signed URLs for Easy Digital Downloads
Multisite compatible for multisites and unlimited pricing options
Multisite exclusive: quickly share your bucket libraries across sites of your network

Themes & plugins integration

The plugin is carefully developed so that it works out of the box with most themes & plugins. The list of themes and plugins is outstanding out there and occasionally, custom work will be needed to enhance compatibility with some of them. If this turns out to be the case, we are glad to help and make the necessary changes promptly. Here is a quick list of plugins that we worked on and knows that works. Note that if your plugin is not in this list, it might well be compatible, but did not get any report on it yet. Please touch base with us if you have questions regarding compatibility with any plugin or theme you use. We continuously work to make your S3 buckets content easily available for any wordpress sites.

Woocommerce
Gutenberg
Advanced Custom Field (ACF fields)
Polylang
Enhanced Media Library
SiteOrigin Page Builder
Divi Page Builder
Fusion Builder
WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer)
Beaver Builder
Elementor
Master Slider Pro
Easy Digital Downloads
Yoimages
And more to come...

Your feedback shapes our plans

We are continuously improving the plugin based on customers feedback. You have a feature in mind that would serve you well? Let us know about it!

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