WordPress CDN and Image Hosting Plugin – Sirv

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Sirv hosts your images and serves them at any size you require. Every image is perfectly optimized and rapidly served from Sirv’s fast image CDN.

Major features of Sirv image management:

  • Display images at any size.
  • Automatic image optimization.
  • Serve responsive images to fit any screen.
  • Serve images incredibly fast from the Sirv CDN.
  • Lazy loading speeds up your page, loading images when needed.
  • Stunning image zoom quickly zooms hi-res images.
  • Lifelike 360 spin shows products from all angles.
  • Easily apply image watermarks.
  • Overlay text captions on images.
  • Protects your images with automatic backups.
  • Use Sirv for all your websites, apps, eBay & social media.

See the complete list of features on the Sirv website.

Free and paid plans are available, depending on your needs. See “Price Plans” below.

Featured images & WooCommerce images

As well as embedding images from your Sirv media library, most of your other WordPress media library images can also be automatically served from Sirv’s fast WordPressCDN, including:

  • Featured images
  • WooCommerce images
  • Jigoshop images
  • Gallery images
  • Images added automatically via other plugins or scripts

Image hosting

Sirv is an image hosting service. Please create a free Sirv account.

Your Sirv media library can host images in your Sirv account. Your existing WordPress media library images can also be copied to your Sirv library and served from it, by enabling the WordPress CDN for Sirv on your Sirv Settings page.

Upload and download images via your Sirv account or by FTP or S3 (FTP/S3 are on your Sirv account page).

Purely designed for image hosting, Sirv gives you much more than standard WordPress hosting. Any image can be immediately embedded into your website with image zoom effects, resizing, watermarking and 360 degree spin. Images are pixel-perfect to fit each users screen, optimized for rapid-loading to create responsive images and lazy loading images for media-rich websites.

Dynamic imaging

Dynamic imaging is the resizing of your images on-the-fly. Without any noticeable delay, new images are regenerated within 0.15 seconds. That’s more than twice as fast as the blink of an eye.

Incredibly fast, use Sirv to:

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  • Crop images
  • Add watermarks
  • Add text
  • Serve as WebP, JPEG, PNG
  • WebP automatically when possible
  • JPEG optimization
  • PNG optimization
  • Resize image canvas
  • Add borders
  • Add a vignette
  • Blur effects
  • Greyscale and sepia
  • Brightness, contrast, exposure and more…

The best WordPress image optimizer – you don’t need to lift a finger. Just install the plugin and Sirv will automatically serve the smallest possible file-size, yet still beautiful quality images. Thanks to automatic WebP serving for Chrome and Opera, images are another 50% smaller than even the most optimized JPEG. It’s 100% automatic and with lazy loading and responsive images – you truly have the best possible image delivery system for WordPress.

Browse all the dynamic image processing options.

Image zoom

Sirv loves huge images – it can zoom deep inside them very fast. No matter how big, images load quickly, just like when you zoom into a Google Map. Beautiful high-resolution images and full-screen views help to sell products online. The bigger your images, the more impressive this image zoom is. Perfect for showing very high quality images. Try demos.

360 spin

Customers adore spinning products around to see them from all sides. Sirv provides a stunning experience 360-degree photography experience. Upload a set of photos to Sirv and your 360 spin will be immediately ready to embed in your page. It feels incredible on desktop and mobile alike, especially the big full-screen 360 spin view. Try demos.

Price plans

Sirv is a professional hosting and CDN service – most websites require a paid plan. Sirv is free for light usage (500 MB storage and 1 GB monthly transfer).

  • Free 0.5 GB storage, $0/month
  • Business 5 GB storage, $19/month
  • Business 20 GB storage, $59/month
  • Business 50 GB storage, $119/month
  • Business 100 GB storage, $199/month
  • Business 250 GB storage, $449/month
  • Enterprise: custom plans tailored to your needs. Contact us.

Create a Sirv account.

We believe in fair and transparent pricing:

  • Upgrade/downgrade any time.
  • Start/stop any time.
  • Complete and easy access to your images.
  • No credit card required for the free plan.

Multiple users

All users in your WordPress admin will be able to view and embed your Sirv images.

To also give users access to your account on my.sirv.com, go to the add users section of your Sirv control panel.

Next steps…

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  • If you don't already have a Sirv account, create one at the Sirv website: https://my.sirv.com/#/signup
  • Configure the Sirv plugin by copying/pasting the S3 settings from this page of your Sirv account. You only need to do this once.
  • Click the Add Sirv Media button to embed images in your page or post.
  • Choose the image(s) to embed in your page/post.
  • Choose how the image(s) should be displayed (either as static images, 360 spin, image zoom or image gallery). Then click Insert into page.
  • The images will appear as a gallery.
  • Click Preview to see how the images look in your page/post.
  • To upload images to your Sirv library, go to the Media Library page within the Sirv sub-menu (in the left navigation column).

Installation

  1. Search for the plugin via the Plugins section of your WordPress dashboard.
  2. Install and activate the plugin.
  3. Go to the Settings page and copy/paste the S3 settings from this page of your Sirv account. You only need to do this once.

Manual installation

  1. Instead of the quick installation above, you can download and unzip the plugin to your computer.
  2. Upload the sirv folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress site.
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  4. Go to the Settings page to enter your S3 connection details.
  5. If you don’t already have a Sirv account, create an account here.

How to embed images

  1. Embed images from your Sirv library by clicking the Add Media button next to a page or post.
  2. For help, submit the Sirv support form in your control panel.

FAQ

Installation Instructions
  1. Search for the plugin via the Plugins section of your WordPress dashboard.
  2. Install and activate the plugin.
  3. Go to the Settings page and copy/paste the S3 settings from this page of your Sirv account. You only need to do this once.

Manual installation

  1. Instead of the quick installation above, you can download and unzip the plugin to your computer.
  2. Upload the sirv folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress site.
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  4. Go to the Settings page to enter your S3 connection details.
  5. If you don’t already have a Sirv account, create an account here.

How to embed images

  1. Embed images from your Sirv library by clicking the Add Media button next to a page or post.
  2. For help, submit the Sirv support form in your control panel.
Where can I learn more about using Sirv?

The official Sirv Help Center is full of ways to display your images including:

Reviews

Best image serving/CDN on the market

Sirv is fantastic! I have a lot of images on my website, and most of them are large, which resulted in slow site speeds, even with a CDN. What I love about Sirv is that they offer a CDN service, but also dynamically resize images based on the user’s browser/device, and serve the right file type. It has meant HUGE speed improvements on my website. In addition to this, their WordPress plug-in works a treat. I was worried about having to move my entire media library to Sirv myself, but the plug-in automates this process without any glitches. Support team is also very responsive and fast. Highly recommended!

Fast loading images and 360 spins

I love this plugin. I use it on my WordPress site to make my pages download faster, which also helps with both my Google organic search rankings and Google image search.

The CDN is quick, particularly on Chrome when serving images in WebP format. 360 spins load lightening fast compared to my previous solution.

Read all 5 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“WordPress CDN and Image Hosting Plugin – Sirv” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Ændringslog

1.4.6

  • Discontinued AWS SDK usage
  • Added fix for opengraph images

1.4.4

  • Updated readme.txt file

1.4.3

  • Address possible issue with failed https detection.

1.4.2

  • CSS fixes.
  • Corrected issue with disabled field.

1.4.1

  • Fixed issue with disabled option field.

1.4

  • Contact form added for easier access to Sirv support team.
  • Simplified S3 configuration.
  • Refined folder searching.

1.3.8

  • Fix media library styles.

1.3.7

  • Added CDN functionality for featured images.
  • Options page redesigned.

1.3.6

  • Fix media library styles.

1.3.5

  • Fix compatibility issue with Yoast SEO plugin.
  • Updated logo.

1.3.4

  • New default style for folder icon.

1.3.3

  • New default style, without shadow around edge.

1.3.2

  • Fix security issue.

1.3.1

  • Fix minor issues.

1.3

  • Added ability for 3rd party plugin integrations.
  • Integrated with the “Featured Image From URL” plugin.

1.2

  • Better static images support.
  • Fix minor issues.

1.1

  • Quick-access embed button “Add Sirv Media” right next to the standard WordPress “Add Media” button when you’re editing a page/post.
  • Media Library page for fast browsing and uploading to your Sirv image library.
  • Easier choice of image effects – embed as Image Zoom, Image Gallery, Plain Image or 360 Spin.
  • Faster image selection using Shift key to choose multiple images.
  • 5-step tutorial with screenshots added to the Settings page.

1.0

  • The first release of the official Sirv plugin for WordPress.