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Need to connect an Amazon S3 bucket to a CDN? As part of our Media Library Folders Pro S3 WordPress plugin, we recognized a need for webmasters to use a CDN with Amazon S3. To help, we’ve written tutorials for four popular CDNs: Cloudflare CloudFront Stackpath (formerly MaxCDN) KeyCDN And we’ll also explain some of the benefits of connecting S3 to a CDN, in case you’re not already convinced. By

One of the biggest things we have coming will be the launch of our MLFP S3 Addon. Using Amazon S3 and a CDN is one of the best ways to manage your images.  S3 gets your files off your server and a CDN helps your users load content fast. With MLFP S3 can seamlessly manage your organized MLFP files and folders on S3. It’s everything you love about MLFP and S3

Image Showcase is an addon for the free MaxGalleria plugin that lets you create a high-resolution showcase area above your gallery thumbnails. Visitors to your gallery can click on any thumbnail in your gallery to see that image in the showcase. Check it out in action below: In addition to its core functionality, Image Showcase also comes with several skins to help you quickly change styles, as well as a

Material design is a design style developed by Google that makes heavy use of design techniques like cards, grids, and lighting/shadows. With the Material Design addon for MaxGalleria, you can easily bring those same Material Design principles to any of the galleries that you create with the free MaxGalleria plugin. In this post, we’ll take you through how to get up and running with Material Design styling for your galleries,

The Masonry addon for MaxGalleria helps you create Pinterest-style masonry layouts from any of your new or existing galleries created via the free MaxGalleria plugin. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the Masonry addon for MaxGalleria, as well as some common tips and troubleshooting suggestions for the addon. How To Create Pinterest-Style Masonry Galleries With MaxGalleria The Masonry addon is an extension for the free core MaxGalleria

Image Carousel is an addon for the free MaxGalleria plugin that lets you display your galleries as carousels that visitors can click to rotate. While the terms “slider” and “carousel” are often used interchangeably, the two are actually different, though similar, effects. Whereas a slider actually “slides” the images vertically or horizontally with a momentum effect, a carousel rotates the image radially like an old carousel slider projector. If you’re

The Media Library Folders Pro S3 Addon extends Media Library Folders Pro’s regular functionality by allowing you to copy or move your files to and from Amazon S3 while preserving the same custom folder structure that you see in the Media Library Folders Pro interface. Beyond that, you can also automatically change links in posts or pages to use files on S3 instead of your local server. And you can

The MaxGalleria Albums addon lets you group together different galleries that you’ve created with the free MaxGalleria plugin. You can then display those galleries in one album as a grid or a list and further customize a number of display settings. In this article, we’ll show you how to create albums on your WordPress site using the MaxGalleria Albums addon. Then, we’ll go through some common tips and troubleshooting for

If you’re like most WordPress users, images are a key part of almost every single post that you publish. That means if something goes wrong with your WordPress images, it can make for a pretty stressful situation (maybe that’s even how you’re feeling right now!). Most of the time – everything goes off without a hitch and life is great. The rest of the time, you might run into some

If you’ve ever felt constrained by the WordPress default text editor, custom fields are your salvation. Custom fields allow you to extend your WordPress content by adding flexible new “fields” to any of your WordPress edit screens. In this post we’re going to explain how those fields help you and your users, and how to add custom fields to your WordPress site using a powerful plugin called Advanced Custom Fields. Additionally,