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Does anyone know a way (plugins or similar) to offload media (images mostly) in wordpress to an external service? like flicker, or imageshak?

I think that offloading images from the wordpress installation increase significantly the mante the maintainability of your site, and not mentioning the speeding up of the backupping process!

One sad note is that many themes need the images on the same server to create thumbnails for post previews, while I thinks a better approach would be to create temporary made up files of the images.

thanks!

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Typically you want to use a real CDN like Amazon or Rackspace for this, there are several plugins, hopefully someone knows more about good integrations. – Wyck Aug 8 '12 at 19:11
but if i'm not wrong, CDN don't work like a file management system, but spawn your files around the world for a faster access, isn't it? (BTW they are not free :) ) – Bakaburg Aug 8 '12 at 19:18
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Sort of, the term has become a bit loose, I was referring to the storage aspect of a CDN which can be used for network delivery or just as storage, have a look at amazon S3 or Rackspace cloud files (there are others). – Wyck Aug 8 '12 at 19:29
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You can check out the following plugins that use an external storage for media. Some of them supposedly use the build in media (S3), while other simply allow you to use the storage in your post (azure) via a button.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/windows-azure-storage/ , yes Microsoft wrote this plugin. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tantan-s3-cloudfront/ Amazon S3 for WordPress. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cdn-sync-tool/ Several services(cloudfiles, s3, maxcdn, etc) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pressbox/ Dropbox

The tag on WordPress which has more options: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/s3

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Have you considered a service like CloudFlare? They are free and work as much more than just a CDN, also providing added security and bulletproof DNS services. VERY easy to get going, and once you do, the image caching, CDN, minification of JS and CSS, etc... is all automatic.

I've been using them since they first started the service and it's been absolutely stellar for me and many of my clients.

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we already use it, but the question was different :) – Bakaburg Aug 10 '12 at 2:18

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