Shift8 CDN is a WordPress app, with a 4.4 average rating from 40 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Shift8 CDN is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by shift8. With a rating of 4.4★ from 40 reviews.
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Shift8 CDN is a well-rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 40 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by shift8 — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (40) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Shift8 CDN works
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This is a plugin that integrates a 100% free CDN service operated by Shift8, for your WordPress site. What this means is that you can simply install this plugin, activate and register with our CDN service and all of your static assets on your website will be served through our global content delivery network.
Migration Notice Shift8 CDN as a service is migrating into Atomic Edge. Your user account has been migrated to the new dashboard, click here to reset your password.
Community Support If you need support, please head over to our community discourse forum for you to more easily access support resources.
Check out our new Shift8 CDN website You can now create your own dashboard account to add/remove/manage your sites : Shift8 CDN. Note if you have a site created prior to this dashboard, you can submit a request on the support forums and we can migrate the site for you.
Instructions for setup
Register for an account by CLICKING HERE
Once your account is activated, go to the Shift8 CDN dashboard and click “Create Site”
Enter your site URL exactly as it appears (i.e. https://www.yoursite.com) and click “Add”
Once added successfully, click “View” to view the site details and copy the API key and CDN prefix
Install this WordPress plugin and activate
Go to the plugin settings page (Shift8 > CDN Settings) and enter the site url, API key and CDN prefix and then click “Save Changes”
Once saved, you can click the “Check” button to ensure everything matches with our system
Click the “Test URL” to ensure it actually works and if so , click “Enable Shift8 CDN” at the top of the settings page to enable. You can use this to quickly disable if there are any problems.
Instructions for upgrading from a version prior to 1.30
It is important before you upgrade the plugin to disable the CDN and unregister your site. Your site needs to be unregistered before upgrading, otherwise we will have to manually migrate the site for you
Once the “Enable Shift8 CDN” setting is disabled, and your site is unregistered, update the plugin via the WordPress plugin update system
Once the plugin is updated, head to our site to register your account on our systems
Enter your site URL exactly as it appears (i.e. https://www.yoursite.com) and click “Add”
Once added successfully, click “View” to view the site details and copy the API key and CDN prefix
Go back to the plugin settings page (Shift8 > CDN Settings) and enter the site url, API key and CDN prefix and then click “Save Changes”
Once saved, you can click the “Check” button to ensure everything matches with our system
Click the “Test URL” to ensure it actually works and if so , click “Enable Shift8 CDN” at the top of the settings page to enable. You can use this to quickly disable if there are any problems.
Newly added entpoints New endpoints added :
Frankfurt, Germany
Ukraine
Free Content Delivery Network for your Static Content Shift8 has rolled out a consistently-growing CDN with endpoints all over the world. This plugin will make your site load way faster by using latency-based and geographic-based DNS resolution for requests made to your site to be served by an endpoint closest to the user making the request. This means that a user making a request in Mumbai, India will hit the Mumbai server to download the static content from your website, improving performance remarkably.
Current endpoints in use (more added regularly) :
USA – Northern California
USA – Northern Virginia
USA – Dallas, TX
USA – Miami, FL
Canada – Toronto
Europe – London, England
Europe – Stockholm, Sweden
Europe – Warsaw, Poland
Europe – Frankfurt, Germany
Europe – Ukraine
Asia Pacific – Hong Kong, China
Asia Pacific – Tokyo, Japan
Asia Pacific – Sydney, Australia
Asia Pacific – Singapore
Asia Pacific – Mumbai, India
Latin America – Sao Paulo, Brazil
You can learn more about how the CDN was setup and how it works by reading our blog post.
Want to see the plugin in action? You can view three example sites where this plugin is live :
Example Site 1 : WordPress Hosting
Example Site 2 : Web Design in Toronto
Features
100% Free CDN for static assets on your site (CSS, JS, Images, Font files and more)
Geographic and latency based DNS routing of requests to the nearest endpoint server across the globe
Super easy set up : just install plugin, activate and register to start using within minutes.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Shift8 CDN?
Shift8 CDN is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.4-star rating from 40 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by shift8.