I’ve never heard of a CDN that replaces your servers storage completely, only mirroring. However, I know (as I’ve done this on multiple installs) you can offload your current and future media library items to AWS S3 with a plugin like Media Cloud. Media items get off of your pricy and limited hosting server, and … Read more
It depends what you mean, entirely on Cloudfront. Cloudfront is a CDN only. It can’t run any server side scripting environments (PHP or MySQL), it therefore isn’t possible to host a wordpress site entirely with Cloudfront. You could alternatively use Cloudfront to host your images to improve speed. The closest way to host a wordpress … Read more
Yes, making static version of WP blog is definite possibility. I would advise against using caching plugins for that — it’s not their purpose and a lot of their functionality tends to depend on elaborate rewrite rules, which you won’t be able to replicate on CDN. There are dedicated WP solutions (none that I have … Read more
No, not strictly. You can check the source and see that there is no hook that would let you alter the URL. You should also notice this interesting bit of code: 512 if ( $image = image_downsize($attachment_id, $size) ) 513 return $image; Follow the trail to here and you get this: 141 // plugins can … Read more
Changing image URLs in media library
CDN + WP Admin Query – .htaccess redirection
The easiest way to go would be to use an “Origin Pull” CDN. These sorts of delivery networks pull media directly from your site, cache it (usually for the TTL defined by your Cache related HTTP headers). Any origin pull CDN will work fine with multi-site. You rewrite all static resource URLs in your content … Read more
I was in a similar situation recently and started using W3 Total Cache too. I’m not sure what settings you have at the moment, but it’s worth experimenting a bit if you can to see that you’re really using W3 Total Cache to the max For example, I originally only had Page Cache and Browser … Read more
It was actually easier than I thought. function route_uploads_past_cdn( $url, $path ) { $upload_paths = array( ‘async-upload.php’, ‘media-new.php’ ); if( !in_array( $path, $upload_paths ) ) { return $url; } return str_replace(‘www.’, ”, $url); } add_filter( ‘admin_url’, ‘pew_route_uploads_past_cdn’, 10, 2 ); The URL for uploading media would normally be http://www.example.com/wp-admin/media-new.php would now be http://example.com/wp-admin/media-new.php since the … Read more
Since the major adoption of Responsive Images and the addition of new srcset attribute to the <img> element. WordPress has to evolve too. WordPress 4.4 added the responsive images feature. If you inspect the src attribute it might point to the CDN, however, you still need to consider the srcset attribute which might still be … Read more