Infinite Uploads – Offload, Optimize & Organize Your Media Library vs Linked Media Without Import

Infinite Uploads is the all-in-one media library for WordPress, reimagined to keep your site fast and your growing library simple to manage. It optimizes every image you upload automatically, frees up space on your hosting, keeps your media organized, and takes the work out of managing it as your site scales, without complicated cloud setup or a separate plugin for every job. Quick Links: Test Your Site – See how much faster we can make your site. Documentation – Get help, read tutorials, and contact support. See Your Savings – See how much Infinite Uploads can save you. A WordPress media library shouldn’t slow your site down or turn into a mess as it grows. But that’s what usually happens: images pile up, pages get heavier, hosting storage fills, and suddenly you have 4 of the same image. Most plugins fix only one piece of that. Infinite Uploads rethinks the whole experience, so your media library makes your site faster and easier to manage instead of holding it back. It starts the moment you upload. Every image is automatically optimized and delivered in modern formats, resized to the sizes your site actually uses, and stripped of unnecessary metadata, so pages load faster and score better on Core Web Vitals. As your library grows, Infinite Uploads scales with it: reclaim server space, deliver every file worldwide, organize everything, and even host and stream video, all from one plugin with no API keys, buckets, or cloud configuration to manage. Faster: Automatic Image Optimization New in 3.3.0. Infinite Uploads now optimizes and compresses images for you automatically at the edge, so your pages load faster without any manual work. Every image is compressed and converted to modern next-gen formats like AVIF and WebP, resized to a maximum width you choose, and stripped of unnecessary metadata before it reaches your visitors. You stay in control. A simple Image Optimization panel lets you turn optimization on or off, set the optimization level, toggle AVIF and WebP, choose a maximum image width, strip metadata, and exclude specific paths that should be left untouched. There are no queues to run and no originals to lose. Your source files stay safe while your visitors get lighter, faster images and better Core Web Vitals scores. Easier to Manage: Your Whole Media Library, Organized As your library grows, finding and managing files should get easier, not harder. Infinite Uploads brings real organization to the WordPress Media Library. Unlimited nested folders with drag-and-drop, color coding, and bulk actions. Upload directly into a specific folder, including full folder structures from your computer. Sort files by date added, date modified, title, filename, author, file type, extension, or file size, and sort folders by name, date, or size. Search across title, filename, alt text, description, caption, and folder name in the grid and modal views. Folders appear in the media picker inside Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Gutenberg, Beaver Builder, Oxygen, Brizy, and WooCommerce. Manage everything right from the WordPress dashboard, with no FTP client, server names, ports, or credentials to juggle. Scales as You Grow: Storage, Delivery, and Video When your media outgrows your hosting, Infinite Uploads grows with it, without turning you into a cloud architect. Offload your media to fully managed cloud storage, reclaim server space, and serve every file fast from a worldwide content delivery network with 50+ points of presence. Connect an unlimited number of sites and pay only for the storage and bandwidth you use, with no per-site or per-file license fees. Need more than images? Upload any size video straight from your WordPress dashboard, have it encoded into multiple resolutions, and stream it through a clean, unbranded, GDPR-friendly player, all from the same media library. Store and deliver large digital downloads and other files the same way. Unlike plugins that ask you to configure Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces, or Azure Blob yourself, Infinite Uploads handles the infrastructure. No API keys, no IAM policies, no CloudFront distribution setup. One click connects your site. See Where Your Storage Goes Not sure what’s filling up your hosting? Scan your Media Library for a clear breakdown of your files by type and size, so you can see exactly how many images, videos, archives, documents, and audio files you have and how much space they’re taking up, then move the biggest offenders off your server with a click. Ecommerce Ready Deliver high-quality product images and videos fast, and store large digital download files in the cloud. Widely Compatible Infinite Uploads is built to work flawlessly with the widest variety of your favorite themes and plugins, and has been tested with: WooCommerce Easy Digital Downloads Divi Theme and Page Builder LearnDash WordPress Download Manager WP Smush & Smush Pro (not CDN) WP Retina 2x Elementor Page Builder WPML WP Rocket NextGen Gallery FileBird ACF EWWW Image Optimizer ShortPixel And many, many, more! Fast and Incredibly Secure Files are transferred over encrypted SSL and stored with 99.999999999% (11 x 9s) durability. All API tokens and credentials are hashed, encrypted, segmented per customer and site, and rotated automatically. For low latency and legal compliance with laws like GDPR, you can choose a USA or Europe (Germany) storage location for each site you connect. ★★★★★ “This plugin does exactly what it promises for images, files, and video. It outperformed other cloud-based plugins we tested against. It’s very simple to set up.” – theinnographer ★★★★★ “This plugin is super easy to use. It scans your WordPress install and lets you know exactly how much will be moved to cloud storage. It was a life-saver for us as our web hosting accounts were getting full, now we can offload media to free up space, and the support is very responsive. So far, a great experience!” – authenticmedia What about Multisite? Use Infinite Uploads to optimize, store, and manage the media for your entire Multisite network with one account. Settings and syncing are network-wide, so you never have to worry about running out of storage. Privacy This plugin does not collect or share data other than your uploaded files to your public cloud storage location. We are fully GDPR-compatible and you can choose to store all data in European data centers. Read our Privacy Policy for more information. Check Out Big File Uploads Big File Uploads lets you upload large media files directly to the media library with the WordPress media uploader. Increase your maximum upload size to any value, as large as your available disk space allows, and add file chunking to avoid server timeout errors. Check out Big File Form Uploads Big File Form Uploads is a paid add-on that extends the maximum WordPress file upload size to your favorite form plugins, including Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, Elementor Forms, and Forminator. Set the limit in Big File Uploads and it carries over to your forms. Learn more about Big File Form Uploads! About Us Infinite Uploads builds WordPress plugins and provides fully managed media optimization, storage, and delivery for WordPress. Learn more here: infiniteuploads.com Learn how to get the most out of your media library on our blog: Infinite Uploads Blog, Tips, Tricks, How-tos, and News Enjoy! Contact and Credits Built by the WordPress engineers and media infrastructure team at Infinite Uploads.

“Linked Media Without Import” allows you to use images from external URLs in your media library without actually downloading them to your server. This approach significantly reduces your server’s storage consumption and lessens its load, as it doesn’t have to process the images (like creating thumbnails). By linking to media instead of importing, you can improve your website’s overall performance, especially if your site uses many large images. Other resources Check out my other plugin, “Post Flow“, which helps you schedule your website’s content for automatic publishing. I have also written a beginner’s guide, “A Tutorial on Developing WordPress Plugins with React“, to help you get started with plugin development. Get in Touch If you have specific needs for a WordPress theme or plugin, feel free to contact me. I will collect user requests and may develop new themes or plugins to address common problems and needs.