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The Zinn® Media Offload plugin

Move a media library to Zinn® object storage and serve it from a CDN, without typing an access key into WordPress.

Media Offload moves the images and files in your WordPress media library into Zinn® object storage and serves them from a CDN. The web server then goes back to running your site instead of posting pictures.

It is free and listed in the WordPress.org plugin directory: wordpress.org/plugins/zinn-offload. Install it from Plugins → Add New Plugin by searching for Zinn® Media Offload.

Why no access key

The plugin never holds a storage credential. It is configured from your Zinn® dashboard and receives a short-lived permission when it needs one. A stolen copy of your WordPress database therefore does not contain a key to your storage — which is the usual way offload plugins leak.

Setting it up

  1. In your Zinn® dashboard, open the site, choose Files & databases, and in **Images &
  2. video CDN press Turn on the media CDN**.

  3. In the same card press Get a pairing code. The code is single-use and expires, so do the
  4. next step straight away.

  5. In WordPress, install and activate the plugin, open Zinn Digital® → Media Offload, paste
  6. the code on the Connection tab and press Connect this site.

  7. Existing media is uploaded in the background, a few files at a time — a large library takes a
  8. while and the site stays up throughout. Move a batch now on the same screen starts the next batch at once.

New uploads go straight to storage from then on.

What your URLs look like

Media URLs change to the CDN address. Old URLs keep working, so posts you have already published do not break and you do not need to search and replace anything.

Turning it off

Deactivating stops new uploads being offloaded and puts URLs back to your own domain. Files already in storage are still there; ask us and we will copy them back down before you remove storage from the plan, so nothing is lost in either direction.

If an image does not appear

Check it in the media library first — if the thumbnail is missing there too, the upload failed rather than the CDN. The sweeper retries failures on its next run, so a handful of files that failed during a network blip fix themselves within the hour.

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