Media Cloud (Premium) 4.5.20

Media Cloud Premium – Supercharge Your WordPress Site​

Automatically push and serve your WordPress media from Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces, Backblaze and others. Turbocharge your performance by using content distribution networks like CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly and more. Use Imgix to future proof your site and optimize images on the fly.

Cloud Storage​

Media Cloud is seamlessly integrated with WordPress’s media library so that you can continue working with media in WordPress like you normally would – your regular workflows remain the same. The deep UI integration shows you information about your media on cloud storage in ways that makeit feel like it’s a regular part of WordPress.

Direct uploads, a feature unique to Media Cloud, are integrated right into the standard WordPress uploader. Direct uploads allow you to upload your content straight to your storage provider, skipping WordPress altogether. With direct uploads, you’ll see upload speeds boosted by 400% on average.

Video Encoding​

Media Cloud 4.0 adds video encoding, turning your WordPress site into your own private Vimeo or YouTube!

Using Mux’s encoding service, easily upload and convert your videos to adaptive bitrate videos that work great no matter the bandwidth or device. You can also add your own watermarks to the videos you upload and secure them with expiring links that insure where your videos are viewed and by whom.

Also included are Gutenberg and  Elementor blocks to easily embed these videos in your posts and pages. Bring your own player or use the embedded industry leading Video JS player.

Import Existing Media​

Have an existing media library? Media Cloud can import your existing media to cloud storage in the background. Just start the import process and continue about your day. Browse Reddit, take a nap, enjoy some coffee, crush newbs in Apex Legends – whatever you choose to do, Media Cloud will continue the import process in the background. You can check on its status at any time by browsing to the import tool’s page in Media Cloud’s admin menu.

Assets​

Media Cloud isn’t just limited to your media, it can now push your CSS and Javascript assets to the cloud to serve them from a CDN, or setup a CDN to pull from your server and have Media Cloud automatically rewrite those URLs.

Either way you choose to do it, the assets feature in Media Cloud is a major kick in the pants for your page loading times which has direct impact on Google ranking and user satisfaction.

Vision​

Media Cloud integrates with Amazon Rekognition and Google Cloud Vision to enable you to process your images with powerful machine learning models.

Vision allows you to automatically tag images, detect celebrities, find faces and moderate explicit content. The face detection feature can be used to do smart focus cropping where images are automatically cropped with any faces centered in the crop.

Advanced Image Editor​

This feature is a whole lot of wow. And, as far as we know, Media Cloud is the only plugin for WordPress that has a robust image editor that allows you tweak things like brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, exposure and other color controls. Blur, sharpen, auto enhance, red-eye reduction? Yes, please! You can also tint images, add borders and padding, perform arbitrary image rotations. You can also do smart cropping where images are automatically cropped to center and focus on the faces in the image!

You can create style presets and apply those presets to specific image sizes so that any image displayed at that size will be displayed using that preset. Awesome for creative treatments on hero images!