Microsoft Azure Storage for WordPress
Use the Microsoft Azure Storage service to host your website's media files.
3.9(14 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 months agoAs of April 2026, Microsoft Azure Storage for WordPress is a WordPress cdn plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 3.9/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 123K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 8.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Downloads are down 19% this week. Top alternative: W3 Total Cache.
3.9/514 reviews
2.0K+active installs
123K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
This WordPress plugin allows you to use Microsoft Azure Storage Service to host your media and uploads for your WordPress powered website. Microsoft Azure Storage is an effective way to infinitely scale storage of your site and leverage Azure’s global infrastructure.
For more details on Microsoft Azure Storage, please visit the Microsoft Azure website.
For more details on configuring a Microsoft Azure Storage account and on using the plugin with the Block Editor or Classic Editor, please visit the user guide.
Known Issues
Storage Account Versions
Storage accounts can be created via CLI, classic Azure portal, or the new Azure portal,
with varying results.
If a Storage account is created with the new Azure portal, authentication will fail,
resulting in the inability to view/add contai…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great plugin
by masamis·6 months ago·1 reply
for hosting wordpress site , this plugin must be required.
Only possible way to run wordpress in azure app service.
by farmergeek·2 years ago·1 reply
Using, docker and this plugin, you can get VM performant speeds on WordPress in azure. We have used it successfully in many WordPress sites hosted on app services. It integrates very nicely with a cdn/frontdoor as well.
Excellent!
by maxizamorano·4 years ago·1 reply
It works excellent, it is the only plugin there is, I am glad that it has no problems.
Dead project
by marverix·5 years ago·2 replies
There are 5 pages of reported issues for this plugin. Most of them without any answer. Uploading a file while enabled “Auto remove local files” shows infinity loading. Too bad. Azure is a great AWS S3 alternative. Without any maintained plugin for WordPress. Shame.
great
by mtnats·5 years ago
respect, i’m happy! )
Download Trends
Today: 31Yesterday: 66This week: 338Period total: 22K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 8.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.5
66.9%
v4.3
23.2%
v4.4
7.5%
v4.1
2.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
4.5.2 – 2025-10-29
- Security: Add capability check when replacing media to prevent privilege escalation by authenticated users (props @peterwilsoncc, @dkotter via GHSA-pwm5-mwxv-fjrh, CVE-2025-10749)
- Security: Bump
minimatchfrom 4.0.7 to 4.0.8 (props @dependabot via #253). - Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.7 (props @mehidi258, @jeffpaul, @dkotter, @hugosolar via #259).
- Changed: Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.7 (props @QAharshalkadu, @jeffpaul, @dkotter via #264).
- Developer: Update all third-party actions our workflows rely on to use versions based on specific commit hashes (props @jeffpaul, @dkotter via #262).
…and 2 more changes
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