Stops images from uploading directly to your choice of CDN storage service.
As of April 2026, Block Uploading Images for WP Offload Media is a WordPress s3 plugin with 60 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Offload Media Lite for Amazon S3….
Originally called “WP Offload S3 – Filter Image File Types” but had to be changed for trademark reasons.
This plugin stops only images from uploading directly to your Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces or Google Cloud Storage by filtering WP Offload Media. All other media file types continue to upload.
This is great for those who are wanting better SEO Image search results as the images will be loading from your site and not from your CDN of choice.
You can contribute code to this plugin via the GitHub repository.
Use the WordPress.org forums for community support. If you spot a bug, you can of course log it on Github instead where I can act upon it more efficiently.
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| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 5.1.22 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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