Access to important files on the go is a must-have for people who work on multiple computers and devices. Dropbox makes storing and sharing your files easy and that is why it’s one of the fastest-growing free services on the web. The Dropbox service is such an important part of its users’ workflow that Dropbox service-related plugins for WordPress are popping up everywhere. Check out a few creative ways to integrate your WordPress site with your Dropbox account.
Dropbox CDN
Dropbox CDN lets you use your Dropbox ‘Public’ folder as a free Content Delivery Network (CDN). Upload your theme’s CSS, JavaScript, and images into Dropbox and serve these files from the Dropbox network. It will reduce the bandwidth of your server and allow users to load your site faster.
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Dropbox Upload Form
This plugin enables you to insert an upload form on your pages via a shortcode. You will need to create an application by going to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/. After you do this visitors can upload files to the specified Dropbox account.
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WordPress Backup to Dropbox
We featured this plugin in a tutorial on How to Automatically Backup Your WordPress Site to Dropbox. The WordPress Backup to Dropbox plugin will backup your site’s files and a SQL dump of its database and send it to Dropbox. It can be set to create automatic backups. This plugin has been downloaded 18,980 times to date and has been averaging a five star rating.
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Pressbox
The Pressbox plugin adds a new tab to the Media Upload screen, allowing you to insert images and files from Dropbox into your posts. It lets you conveniently access your Dropbox files from directly within your WordPress dashboard.
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BackWPup
BackWPup is a robust plugin for backing up your WordPress site to Dropbox, among other storage services such as Amazon S3, RackSpaceCloud and more. It can also optimize and check/repair your database.
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Drop in Dropbox
This plugin allows you to upload single files or entire directories with subdirectories to your Dropbox account. You can use it for uploading entire directories with subdirectories to your Dropbox account or for backing up your WordPress site.
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SMEStorage Multi-Cloud WordPress Backup
This is another plugin for backing up your site, especially if you prefer to make multiple backups to different remote locations for extra assurance. Send your backup to any one of 10 storage clouds including S3, CloudFiles, MobileME, Gmail, Box.net and Dropbox.
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ShowBox
The ShowBox plugin gives you a way to display images and photos from your DropBox Public folder. It adds a Dropbox gallery to the sidebar of your site. Any images in your public folder will be displayed on your WordPress site.
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WP Time Machine
WP Time Machine creates archives of all your WordPress data and files and then stores them on Dropbox, Amazon’s S3, or your FTP host. The plugin also includes instructions for a smooth recovery and a shell script that can help automate recovery. Check out http://wptimemachine.com/ for more information on its features.
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BackWPup has been my favourite plugin until I’ve tried to backup to DropBox: it always stops for time out errors, while uploading to DropBox.
The support ignores my reports about this issue.
So I’ll probably try one of the other plugins mentioned in this post.
Thanks.
Holy sweet mother! That’s freakin’ sweet!
I like the idea of Dropbox CDN. Will have to give it a whirl :)
Yeah me too…love smal hacks like that,
I use Backup Buddy from Ithemes. It gives you the option to BU to Dropbox. I use it for my personal sites and also for clients. Works like a charm!
A lot of great plugins. Will check em out soon!
I can’t wait to hear back from my theme forum. A couple of these sound terrific! Thanks for the info. :)
Best thing about Dropbox is that it feels so native. It is just part of your computer and behaves like a normal folder.
By the way: if you haven’t got a Dropbox account yet, use this link to sign up: http://db.tt/wzaY4wE
You will get a 250 MB extra storage space, for free!
Erik, what are you doing is not very nice: if everybody starts sharing his DropBox referral link, this post will be flooded by spam comments.
Thats of great help. I was just search about dropbox for wordpress, what a better place to get information that wpmu.org.
Thanks Sarah.
Avoid BackWPup!!!!!!!!!!!!
This plugin is unstable. It got me suspended from my hosting account….. I am not the only one that got in really bad trouble with his hosting company cause of this plugin.
I contacted the developer and the man has no clou what he is doing. He didn’t want to look at this really bad bug, cause he was working on an other plugin. His plugin got suspended from the WordPress repository for this, till he fixed it eventually. After that the all kind of problems with this plugin continued. This developer even chanced his code and broke functionality of his plugin without changing the version number, which got lot people into trouble, not having accurate backups of there blogs. Imaging what happens if you really on this plugin….
The plugin has a wonderful feature set, but the programming, is highly unreliable. If you use it, read the WordPress forum and ditch the thing. A backup function should be reliable, this plugin isn’t, it’s highly unstable.
My advice is: Stay away from it and rate it as broken as a warning to others.
A sweet alternative is http://www.nuffly.com. It also allows you to save most of the other major social network content incl. Blogger right in your dropbox.
Hi!
Anyone knows if there´s a Dropbox plugin that can allow multiple accounts?
The thing is, I have 5 member areas and each member group has their own designated page on the site that only they can reach (through wp members plugin). Group 1 can only reach “group page 1″, group 2 can only reach “group page 2″ and so on.
Each group has also a dropbox account. So, my goal is to let them reach their Dropbox content on their designated page, preferably through some sort of plugin.
Any clue from anyone?
Hope I made myself clear! :-)
Best,
Jake
I use this one http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dropbox-plugin/
Odd that it wasn’t mentioned
I’ve had a lot of trouble trying to find a backup option that will work with Hostgator shared accounts. They always seem to time out.
I’m currently using ManageWp to backup my sites to dropbox. It’s simple and always works.
I too use Backup Buddy. However I was looking for a plugin in which I could actually access files in dropbox from the wp dashboard for collaboration purposes. Kind of lazy I know but hey, if you can, why not. While not a WP Plugin per se I did see this software demonstrated at a local demo camp: https://mybackupbox.com/ and thought it worth mentioning.
Check out my new Plugin at Wordrop.net. its a full broweser and gallery presentation for wordpress with dropbox data