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How Do I Use Amazon S3 on Wordpress

James H. Sterling • • 8 min read
How Do I Use Amazon S3 on Wordpress

Create an Amazon S3 bucket to hold your media files.Add an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user and policy.Update the WordPress configuration file with the user credentials.Install and configure the actual plug-in.Upload an image to WordPress to test it all out.

Can we host WordPress on S3?

Well, not so fast. WordPress will not run from S3. … To answer that question lets take a closer look at How S3 static web site hosting works, and then lets also take a look at how WordPress works at a high level at least.

How do I connect to Amazon S3?

  1. Obtain the login credentials (Access Key ID, Secret Access Key) from the Amazon Portal – Access Credentials page.
  2. Open a new connection: menu: File – Connection.
  3. Select the S3 Protocol.
  4. Select Amazon S3. …
  5. Enter the username and password: …
  6. Click OK to connect.
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James H. Sterling

James Sterling reports on renewable energy developments, climate policy, ecological conservation, and green tech innovations around the globe.