WP2Cloud
Now WordPress site can store all its content (pages and media) in cloud. This makes site powered by enormous scale and reliability of cloud storage.
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WP2Cloud shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites, is rated 4.4/5 and was last updated 12 years ago, and scores 33/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (10+ active installs)
- No update in 12 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 3.9 (latest is 7.1)
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where WP2Cloud stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| amazon | >100 |
| aws | >100 |
| cloud | >100 |
| cloud storage | >100 |
| s3 | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 from 18 reviews
About WP2Cloud
From the official readme · v1.4.0Description
Take your WordPress site to cloud with the help of Cloud Storage Engine (ClouSE)!
WordPress-To-Cloud solution makes it possible for WordPress blogs to store all their data like pages, images, files in Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage.
Now WordPress can seamlessly get all the benefits of cloud storage – high availability, high reliability, quick and easy disaster recovery, and serving content in a highly scalable fashion.
WP2Cloud plugin is designed to complete the migration of a WordPress site to cloud storage.
Benefits
Cloud storage is awesome. It is highly- durable, reliable, available, and scalable; it has infinite capacity, it is the most mature and thus stable service – all of it on a Pay-For-What-You-Use pricing model.
Using cloud storage to store the website data has the following benefits:
- No backup and recovery of the site data is needed. More info is here.
- Storage is extremely reliable and durable by cloud storage design
- Pictures are served by cloud storage directly, which makes the website highly scalable
- Storage cost scales with usage, no upfront reservation is needed
- Storage consumption scales up and down with the amount of data stored.
Deployment options
WordPress-To-Cloud supports the following primary deployment choices:
- Take the whole website data to cloud storage.
- Only upload media files to cloud storage.
- Only migrate website content to cloud storage while store media files in uploads folder on Web server running WordPress.
As the best deployment practice we recommend moving to the cloud the whole website, both its content (that is stored in WordPress database) and media files.
Consider using our ready-to-run WordPress on Cloud Storage – Oblaksoft Yapixx, the 1st WordPress website on Amazon S3 as a starting point and a reference of such configuration. Refer to the complete WordPress on S3, WordPress on Google Cloud Storage, and WordPress on S3: do it yourself step-by-step guides for extra pointers in setting up WordPress on cloud storage.
Hosting options
The website server hosting decision can be made independently from the decision where to store the website data.
A Web server running the website can be hosted pretty much anywhere. Depending on your needs, the Web server can run by your favorite hoster, by a cloud provider, from your premise, as an instance in Amazon AWS or Google Cloud.
You can keep your current hosting arrangements, and only move the website data to cloud storage using WP2Cloud and ClouSE.
With your data being safe in the cloud storage, if needed, you’ll be able to easily change a hoster or a cloud, that is without any data migration whatsoever.
WordPress-To-Cloud solution works with nearly any hosting/cloud provider, but perhaps not with every hosting plan or stack supported by your provider. Feel free to contact your provider and us so we could attempt to make it work in your specific circumstances.
How it works
WP2Cloud stores media files such as pictures, music, videos, documents in the cloud. Media files that are uploaded to the WordPress are actually uploaded to the cloud storage, not to the local file system of the Web server hosting this website.
The media files are served from the cloud storage, the website pages now refer to the media files via direct cloud storage URLs. This makes your site directly powered by the enormous scale and reliability of cloud storage.
To make serving media files from Amazon S3 even faster, the plugin can be configured to use a Content Distribution Network (CDN), such as Amazon CloudFront. When the plugin is configured to use a CDN, the website pages refer to the media files via the CDN URLs. The CDN serves the media files from locations around the world to provide the best performance.
WP2Cloud plugin natively makes the website faster, more available and scalable:
- Media files are stored reliably in the cloud and don’t need to be backed up.
- Website now can leverage the cloud power to scale out content delivery to the browser directly from the cloud storage. The file content is now served in a highly scalable fashion by the cloud storage utility provider which takes load off of the Web server. This is different from the default WordPress behavior where media files are local files, and are served by the Web server and consume network bandwidth, disk I/O and CPU power of the Web server
- WordPress web tier is now stateless, so web tiers can now be auto-scaled and auto-balanced as needed to meet the website’s scalability goals.
- Files are distributed across the globe for fast access either natively by cloud storage itself and/or via an explicit integration with CDN.
WP2Cloud plugin relies on Cloud Storage Engine (ClouSE) for MySQL to enable integration with cloud storage.
In WordPress-to-Cloud solution, the site uses cloud storage as its primary storage. The storage configuration becomes transparent to WordPress. WordPress stores the website’s data in MySQL, while ClouSE is plugged into MySQL and places all data into cloud storage, rather than using local disk. ClouSE plays the role of a database gateway for cloud storage, combining the best of local and cloud storage by delivering performance and security of local storage, plus all the benefits of the cloud storage.
Supported cloud storage
Supported cloud storage providers are:
- Amazon S3 and compatible. You can choose any of the Amazon Regions to store your data. Pick a Region to optimize for latency, minimize cost or address regulatory requirements.
- Google Cloud Storage.
Other storage providers may be added in the near future.
Translations
- Español por Andrew de WebHostingHub
- Русский предоставил OblakSoft
More reading
- S3 Storage for WordPress Blogs
- Launching WordPress into the Google cloud
- WP2Cloud featured at Softpedia.com
Future plans
Our goal is to design the best WordPress-to-Cloud experience for YOU.
Cloud storage is very powerful, we’d love to take full advantage of its capabilities!
We really appreciate your feedback.
What are your scenarios? What would you like to see added, improved? What problems can we help you with?
Feel free to contact us. Thank you in advance!
Support
This plugin is actively supported by OblakSoft and we will do our best to help you. In return we simply ask:
- Rate this plugin or write a review. We cordially ask you to please contact us before giving a poor rating.
- Follow us at our OblakSoft Facebook page.
- Support us by referring, blogging about WP2Cloud plugin and/or ClouSE storage engine.
- Help Out. If you see a question on the forum you can help with or have a great idea and want to code it up and submit a patch, that would be just plain awesome and we will shower your with praise. Also, we are happy to post translations if you provide them.
- Donate – if this plugin makes your life easier enough to support our time it makes all the difference in the world. We are a small self-funded startup. You can donate to OblakSoft development team via PayPal.
Thank you!
Installation
Install WordPress on Cloud Storage
If you plan to store all WordPress site data on cloud storage, consider using our preconfigured ready-to-run WordPress on Cloud Storage image.
Pick a cloud storage and launch your own WordPress site to it in a matter of minutes. WordPress on Cloud Storage image simply consists of the complete up-to-date stack: LAMP, ClouSE, WordPress, WP2Cloud. And this image provides an intuitive user interface to help configure connection to cloud storage.
For additional information about WordPress on Cloud Storage please check out these detailed step-by-step instructions: WordPress on S3, WordPress on Google Cloud Storage, and WordPress on S3: do it yourself.
See also this announcement.
Installation steps to only keep uploads on Cloud Storage
In case you are interested only in uploading media files to cloud, please follow WP2Cloud installation instructions listed below.
Please note that WP2Cloud plugin relies on Cloud Storage Engine (ClouSE) for MySQL to enable integration with cloud storage.
To install and configure ClouSE please refer to these steps:
Amazon S3
- Sign up for an AWS account.
- Create an S3 bucket if you don’t have one.
- Install and configure ClouSE.
Google Cloud Storage
- Sign up for Google Cloud Storage.
- Enable Interoperable Access.
- Create a bucket if you don’t have one.
- Install and configure ClouSE.
Once ClouSE is installed and configured, you can now activate WP2Cloud plugin:
- You can download and install WP2Cloud using the built-in WordPress plugin installer. If you download WP2Cloud manually, unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. WP2Cloud requires the Cloud Storage Engine for MySQL (ClouSE) to be installed and configured on the MySQL server. If ClouSE is not installed, WP2Cloud will fail to activate.
- In your WordPress administration, go to the Plugins page.
- Activate the WP2Cloud plugin.
Now all new media files are going to be uploaded to the cloud.
Your website can gain higher availability and scalability!
Optional: to configure the plugin to use a Content Distribution Network (CDN), go to the WordPress to Cloud Settings page and specify the Cloud Distribution URL. The CDN must be configured to use the cloud storage bucket as a content origin. For additional information about using WordPress on S3 with CloudFront please check out these detailed step-by-step instructions.
Move existing media files to Cloud Storage
If your website has existing media files, you can move the media files to the cloud storage. Go to the WordPress to Cloud Settings page and click the Move media to the cloud link.
Documentation and support
The comprehensive documentation can be found here.
Please visit this forum for questions or comments. Older support discussions can be found here.
If you aren’t able to find a resolution, please email us at bugs@oblaksoft.com.
The authors are available for professional consulting and troubleshooting to make sure the solution meets your configuration and customization needs.
Requirements
- MySQL Server 5.5.19 or above
- Apache 2.2.15 or above
- PHP 5.3.2 or above
- ClouSE 1.0b.1.1 or above
Advanced deployment configuration with Media Server
If you don’t have permissions to install the Cloud Storage Engine (ClouSE) on the MySQL server that stores your WordPress database, you can configure WP2Cloud to use a separate Media Server. The Media Server makes it possible to use cloud storage to store and serve media files, while keeping your existing database solution to store website content.
To use a Media Server, first install and configure a MySQL server with ClouSE. After the Media Server is up and running, create a database for WP2Cloud on your Media Server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it.
Edit wp-config.php and fill in the Media Server database configuration into the MEDIA_DB_* settings (similar to the DB_* settings):
// ** MySQL media server settings ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress media files */
define('MEDIA_DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere');
/** MySQL database username */
define('MEDIA_DB_USER', 'usernamehere');
/** MySQL database password */
define('MEDIA_DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('MEDIA_DB_HOST', 'localhost');
Changelog
n/a
1.4.0
- Add support for cloud migration, now existing site data can move to cloud
- Hide licensing UI from non-superadmins (multisite only)
- Fix a problem with media server configuration when PHP uses mysqli connection
1.3.16
- Implement ClouSE license ordering functionality
1.3.15
- Fix “Constant ABSPATH is aready defined” PHP notice
- Handle references to media in other sites in the same network (multisite only)
1.3.14
- Fix incorrect media URLs in posts created via XMLRPC (e.g. from a mobile app)
- Add Spanish translation by Andrew Kurtis, WebHostingHub
1.3.13
- Handle blog switching in multi-site setup (see this post)
1.3.12
- Add link to Amazon CloudFront setup guide into the CDN settings description
- Embed links to step-by-step guides into the “ClouSE is missing” activation error
- Add Russian translation
- Implement plugin localization support
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FAQ
WP2Cloud: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 8, 2026
Is WP2Cloud free?
Yes. WP2Cloud is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is WP2Cloud safe to use in 2026?
WP2Cloud shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites, is rated 4.4/5 and was last updated 12 years ago, and scores 33/100 on our health check.
How many websites use WP2Cloud?
WP2Cloud is active on 10+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 27,011 times since it launched in May 2012. It was downloaded 99 times in the last 30 days.
Does WP2Cloud work with WordPress 7.1?
WP2Cloud is officially tested up to WordPress 3.9.40, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was WP2Cloud last updated?
The latest version, 1.4.0, was released on August 14, 2014 (12 years ago).
Who makes WP2Cloud?
WP2Cloud is developed and maintained by Artem Livshits.
What are the best alternatives to WP2Cloud?
The most popular alternatives to WP2Cloud are Advanced Ads (100K+ installs), WP Offload Media Lite for A… (30K+ installs) and Amazon Pay for WooCommerce (10K+ installs).
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