Free WordPress Media Offload Plugin: Move Your Media Library to Amazon S3, Bunny CDN, Google Drive, Dropbox and 9 More

Media is usually the biggest thing on a WordPress site. Every image upload creates several thumbnail sizes, videos run to gigabytes, and before long your hosting plan is full, backups are slow and pages load images from a busy shared server.

Media offloading fixes that by moving your files to cloud storage or a CDN. The catch is that the popular offload plugins charge a yearly subscription, often priced by how many files you have, and each one supports only a few services.

Sidcraft Cloud Media Offload is free, has no file limits, and connects to 13 cloud drives, object stores, CDNs and video platforms.

Supported cloud services

You can send videos to a video platform and everything else to your main storage. Videos then play with the platform's player in the video block and the [video] shortcode.

How it compares with paid offload plugins

Prices are taken from each vendor's pricing page in November 2026. WP Offload Media's paid licenses renew every year for updates and support, and it also has a free Lite version. WP Offload Media supports Google Cloud Storage, which Sidcraft Cloud Media Offload doesn't list. WP Cloud Plugins focuses on cloud-drive file sharing rather than Media Library offloading.

To get object storage, cloud drives and video platforms together, you'd normally need two or more paid plugins and yearly renewals. Sidcraft Cloud Media Offload covers all three for free.

Offloading that just works

You upload media exactly as before. WordPress creates its image sizes, and the plugin moves the original and every generated size to the cloud, then serves them from there.

• Automatic: new uploads, scaled images and every thumbnail size move to the cloud right after upload.
• Large files are moved in the background with each provider's chunked, resumable upload API.
• Free your server: delete the local copies to save space, or keep them as a backup.
• Choose file types: all files, images, media or a custom list, plus types that always stay local.
• The image editor and thumbnail regeneration keep working, and edited files are pushed to the cloud automatically.
• Deleting from the Media Library can also delete the cloud copy (optional).
• A Storage column in the Media Library, with row and bulk actions to move files to the cloud, move them back, download a local copy or remove the local copy.

Your existing library, in one click

Offload your whole existing Media Library, originals plus every thumbnail size, with one click and a progress bar, or let it run in the background. The Tools screen can also create public links, download local copies, or move everything back to your server if you ever change your mind.

Prefer the command line? Use WP-CLI:

wp sidcm offload --all
wp sidcm restore --all
wp sidcm status

Fast and secure delivery

• URLs stay on your own domain: offloaded files get stable addresses such as example.com/cloud-media/2026/10/photo.jpg, mirroring the uploads structure. Responsive images (srcset), the block editor and other plugins keep working, and older content pointing at wp-content/uploads is rewritten automatically.
• Secure mode (default): every request goes to a short-lived, signed link created by the provider, so your cloud files stay private.
• Public mode: permanent "anyone with the link" shares for the fastest delivery on Dropbox, Google Drive and Box.
• Per-file access: restrict any attachment to logged-in users.
• Your own cloud apps: each site connects with its own app credentials, OAuth tokens and secrets are encrypted, and files never pass through a third-party relay. Nothing is sent to the plugin author.

Cloud modules: show your cloud on any page

Add the Cloud Module block, the [sidcm_cloud] shortcode or the Sidcraft Page Builder Cloud Module unit to show any cloud folder on a page:

Personal folders like folder="Clients/%user_login%" show each logged-in user only their own folder, which makes a simple client portal. Add role-based access, password protection and email notifications on uploads and downloads.

Sell cloud files securely

• WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads: downloadable product files are delivered from the cloud. After the store verifies the purchase, the customer is sent to a short-lived cloud link, so store files are never public.
• Sidcraft Commerce: attach cloud files to products. When an order is paid, customers get secure links with download limits and expiry, and the links are revoked if the order is cancelled or refunded.
• Forms: files uploaded through Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms or Fluent Forms are copied to the cloud automatically.

A dashboard, activity log and statistics

The Cloud Media dashboard shows storage figures, one-click offloading, connected accounts, integrations and recent activity. The activity log tracks offloads, uploads, downloads and errors, and shows your most downloaded files over the last 30 days. Logged data is included in WordPress's personal data export and erase tools. It also works on multisite, with separate settings for each site.

How to get started

1. Install Sidcraft Cloud Media Offload from Plugins → Add New and activate it. You need WordPress 6.3+ and PHP 7.4+.
2. Go to Cloud Media → Settings → Cloud accounts and copy the Redirect URI.
3. Register an app with your provider (each card links to its developer console), add the Redirect URI, and paste the client ID and secret into the card.
4. Click Connect and approve access.
5. On the Offloading tab, choose the storage for new uploads. From now on, uploads move to the cloud automatically.
6. Optional: Cloud Media → Tools → Move existing media to the cloud for your existing library.

Use pretty permalinks for the /cloud-media/ URLs. Box, Microsoft and Google require HTTPS for the redirect URI on public sites.

Building your site with Sidcraft? See Sidcraft Page Builder, our free WordPress page builder with AI, and VidCellar for a self-hosted video library.

Competitor prices were taken from deliciousbrains.com and wpcloudplugins.com in November 2026 and may change; check them before you buy. Amazon S3, DigitalOcean, Bunny.net, Cloudinary, Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive, Box, iCloud, Cloudflare, Mux, Vimeo, YouTube, WooCommerce and other names are trademarks of their owners. Sidcraft is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Sidcraft facts come from Sidcraft Cloud Media Offload 1.4.3 on WordPress.org.

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