Sync images from s3 bucket to wordpress media

I’m not sure of your whole scenario, but generally an offload to cloud storage plugin will only show the images or files that are uploaded through it and the WordPress interface. Depending on how your s3 configuration is, generally files uploaded there are viewable through a verification process even if they are public viewable. In other words if someone that wasn’t logged in to your AWS console with access to your s3 bucket tried to access files on it without going through your website, their access would be denied and an error message would be shown. My point being, each file uploaded to an s3 bucket is authenticated as it’s uploaded by use of your s3 key files. So if a file wasn’t uploaded through your site, Offload Media would be denied access. If I misunderstood your question, then my answer is I don’t know. Hopefully this helps you or at least somebody.

Hi,

So generally if the files weren’t uploaded through my site (wp media library), it won’t be synced to my wp media library?

Say if I upload a file directly to the s3 bucket, I won’t be able to see it in the wordpress media library as it doesn’t pull from the s3 bucket.

Hi @haydenng664,

Say if I upload a file directly to the s3 bucket, I won’t be able to see it in the wordpress media library as it doesn’t pull from the s3 bucket.

That’s correct, WP Offload Media currently does not have a feature to import bucket objects into WP as new Media Library items.

If the WP site has Media Library items with bucket objects uploaded through something other than WP Offload Media, and they have a predictable path in the bucket, then WP Offload Media’s “Add Metadata” tool can be used to link up the Media Library items with their objects so they can be used as if WP Offload Media had offloaded them.

https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-offload-media/doc/add-metadata-tool/

-IJ