Content Mask vs External files in Media Library

Read More & View Demos Here Embed Any Content†‡ Into Your WordPress Website Content Mask allows you to embed any external content onto your own WordPress Pages, Posts, and Custom Post Types. The end result is fairly similar to setting up a Domain Mask, but the content is embedded into the front end of your website and is fully contained inside your WordPress permalink ecosystem. Example: If you built a landing page on landing-page-builder.com/your-landing-page/, you can simply create a new Page on your website at your-site.com/landing-page/ and paste in the URL of your landing page. The Content Mask plugin will then download and cache of copy of your landing page directly on your website, so any visitors that come to your-site.com/landing-page/ will see the landing page you built. This allows you to keep all of your links integrated into your WordPress Website. † Do not use Content Mask to embed any content that you do not own or do not otherwise have license to share, embed, frame, or distribute. Simple 2-Step UI With a simple 2-Step UI, you can embed any external content into your website without any complicated URL Forwarding, DNS Records, or .htaccess rules to mess with. Just enable the Content Mask on any Page, Post, or Custom Post type by clicking on the check mark. Then put in the URL that contains the content you want to embed. It’s that simple! Powerful Embedding and Redirect Options Using the Download method (default) will fetch the content from the Content Mask URL, cache it on your website, and replace the current page request with that content. By default, this cache lasts 4 hours – but it can be changed anywhere from “Never Cache” all the way up to “Cache for 4 Weeks”. Caching prevents the need for additional requests that slow down your site. Using the Iframe method will replace the current page request with a full width/height, frameless iframe containing the host URL. This method is ideal if the URL you want to embed won’t serve scripts, styles, or images to other URLs or IP Addresses. If you use the Download Method, and links or images look broken, you can try the Iframe method instead. Using the Redirect (301) method will simply redirect the visitor to the host URL. Simple Integrated Vistor Tracking In the Content Mask admin panel, you can enable tracking for Content Masked pages. This will allow you to see how many visitors are viewing these links. This is ideal for when you need to track acquisition, such as on a Landing Page. [Views] shows how many times that Content Mask page has been viewed by anybody (even logged in users) [Non-User] shows how many times it’s been viewed by visitors that are not logged in to the website. [Unique] shows how many times it’s been viewed by unique IP addresses. Note: IP addresses are one-way hashed and are not identifiable in any way. Creating a Content Masked Page Using the Content Mask Admin Panel Notes: Do NOT use Content Mask on any content you aren’t explicitly authorized to share or use. Please confirm you’re allowed to utilize and embed the content before embedding any particular URL. Content embedded using the Download method is cached using the WordPress Transients API for 4 hours by default. If the content on the external URL is updated and you would like a fresh copy, you may just click the “Update” button on the Page, Post, or Custom Post Type to refresh the transient, or click the “Refresh” link in the Content Mask Admin panel. You may also change the cache expiration timer per page anywhere from “Never” to “4 weeks”. You may use the Transients Manager plugin to manage transients stored with the Download method. All Content Mask related transients contain the prefix “content_mask-” plus a stripped version of the Content Mask URL, such as “content_mask-httpxhynkcom”. ‡ Your site may be prevented from processing page requests for any reason; Reasons include, but are not limited to: masking unauthorized content, at the request of the masked URL site owner, masking hateful content, masking illegal content, circumventing IP bans, etc. A dual one-way encrypted hash of your masking URL may be used to check for infraction. No identifying information will be used for this check, and no information is saved other than as a transient to prevent unnecessary duplicate checks per site Read More About Content Mask

Add one or more files with their URLs under Media > “Add New Media File”. You can use these external files anywhere the media library is used. Feature Embed your files from AWS S3, DropBox, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, FTP, your local hosting, another website in your multisite, other WordPress REST APIs, YouTube or many other possible sources. Use them in your preferred editor such as Block Editor, Elementor, Divi, Classic Editor, WpBakery and many more as if the files were stored normally in your media library. Automatically synchronize external directories containing files with your media library at intervals you specify. And even more: ✅ Add the files with their external dates. This allows you to get the date, helpful for SEO, for example. ✅ Import them as real files instead of just linking to them in your media library. This allows you to import any amount files into your project. ✅ Check their availability (only for HTTP connections) to ensure that the external files are actually available. ✅ Configure, which users in your project are allowed to use the external files options. ✅ Extract ZIP files from any external source into your media library. Support for other plugins Use external URLs when importing products via CSV in a WooCommerce store (including access data for these e.g., via an FTP). Add external files on download lists of Download Lists with Icons. Sort your external files in a folder of CatFolders, Filebird, Folderly, Folders, iFolders, Media Library Organizer or assign them into categories from Enhanced Media Library and Real Media Library Lite. Also supported: NextGen Gallery and Robo Gallery. You can import and synchronize them in these plugins. And compatible with Network Media Library for use in multisites. And it is also compatible with multilingual plugins like Polylang to translate the media files. The plugin is also compatible with a variety of other plugins not listed here. If, contrary to expectations, something does not work properly, please report it in the support forum. REST API You can manage your external files with REST API requests as documented here. Mass-Import You can import complete directories from any of the supported TCP protocols. Just enter the directory as path to import, and the plugin will import any supported files from it or use the external source tools to navigate to the directory to import. For large directories, there is also an automatically processed queue. You could also use the WP CLI for large directories. TCP Protocols You can use the following TCP-protocols to import external files in your media library: 📡 http:// 📡 https:// 📡 ftp:// 📡 ftps:// 📡 sftp:// 📡 ssh:// 📡 file:// Some of them require credentials, for http(s) it is optional. Service plugins Support for additional platforms as external sources is enabled by additional service plugins. These are now: ➕ External files from AWS S3 in Media Library (incl. support for AWS S3, Backplaze S3, Cloudflare R2 and DigitalOcean Spaces) ➕ External files from Google Cloud Storage in Media Library ➕ External files from Google Drive in Media Library ➕ External files from WebDav in Media Library (incl. any WebDav-provider like NextCloud or Seafile) They can be installed manually or in the backend of your WordPress under Media Library > Add External Files. Use cases Here are a few examples of how this plugin can help you: 💡 Store particularly large files in a different storage location so that you save storage space on your hosting. 💡 Import files that your graphic designer provides you in a shared directory. 💡 Automatically synchronize photos from your vacation for display on your website. 💡 Use regularly newly generated PDF files from a shared directory for output on your website. 💡 Get images for your products from a central directory. Find more here ClassicPress This plugin is compatible with ClassicPress. Repository, documentation and reliability You find some documentations on this plugin page and in GitHub. The development repository is on GitHub. Each release of this plugin will only be published if it fulfills the following conditions: ✅ PHPStan check for possible bugs. ✅ Compliance with WordPress Coding Standards. ✅ No failures during PHP Compatibility check. ✅ No exceptions during PHP Unit Tests.