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Plugin Description
This is a plugin that integrates a 100% free CDN service operated by Shift8, for your WordPress site. What this means is that you can simply install this plugin, activate and register with our CDN service and all of your static assets on your website will be served through our global content delivery network.
Community Support
If you need support, please head over to our community discourse forum for you to more easily access support resources.
Check out our new Shift8 CDN website
You can now create your own dashboard account to add/remove/manage your sites : Shift8 CDN. Note if you have a site created prior to this dashboard, you can submit a request on the support forums and we can migrate the site for you.
Instructions for setup
- Register for an account by CLICKING HERE
- Once your account is activated, go to the Shift8 CDN dashboard and click “Create Site”
- Enter your site URL exactly as it appears (i.e. https://www.yoursite.com) and click “Add”
- Once added successfully, click “View” to view the site details and copy the API key and CDN prefix
- Install this WordPress plugin and activate
- Go to the plugin settings page (Shift8 > CDN Settings) and enter the site url, API key and CDN prefix and then click “Save Changes”
- Once saved, you can click the “Check” button to ensure everything matches with our system
- Click the “Test URL” to ensure it actually works and if so , click “Enable Shift8 CDN” at the top of the settings page to enable. You can use this to quickly disable if there are any problems.
Instructions for upgrading from a version prior to 1.30
- It is important before you upgrade the plugin to disable the CDN and unregister your site. Your site needs to be unregistered before upgrading, otherwise we will have to manually migrate the site for you
- Once the “Enable Shift8 CDN” setting is disabled, and your site is unregistered, update the plugin via the WordPress plugin update system
- Once the plugin is updated, head to our site to register your account on our systems
- Enter your site URL exactly as it appears (i.e. https://www.yoursite.com) and click “Add”
- Once added successfully, click “View” to view the site details and copy the API key and CDN prefix
- Go back to the plugin settings page (Shift8 > CDN Settings) and enter the site url, API key and CDN prefix and then click “Save Changes”
- Once saved, you can click the “Check” button to ensure everything matches with our system
- Click the “Test URL” to ensure it actually works and if so , click “Enable Shift8 CDN” at the top of the settings page to enable. You can use this to quickly disable if there are any problems.
Newly added entpoints
New endpoints added :
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Ukraine
Free Content Delivery Network for your Static Content
Shift8 has rolled out a consistently-growing CDN with endpoints all over the world. This plugin will make your site load way faster by using latency-based and geographic-based DNS resolution for requests made to your site to be served by an endpoint closest to the user making the request. This means that a user making a request in Mumbai, India will hit the Mumbai server to download the static content from your website, improving performance remarkably.
Current endpoints in use (more added regularly) :
- USA – Northern California
- USA – Northern Virginia
- USA – Dallas, TX
- USA – Miami, FL
- Canada – Toronto
- Europe – London, England
- Europe – Stockholm, Sweden
- Europe – Warsaw, Poland
- Europe – Frankfurt, Germany
- Europe – Ukraine
- Asia Pacific – Hong Kong, China
- Asia Pacific – Tokyo, Japan
- Asia Pacific – Sydney, Australia
- Asia Pacific – Singapore
- Asia Pacific – Mumbai, India
- Latin America – Sao Paulo, Brazil
You can learn more about how the CDN was setup and how it works by reading our blog post.
Want to see the plugin in action?
You can view three example sites where this plugin is live :
Features
- 100% Free CDN for static assets on your site (CSS, JS, Images, Font files and more)
- Geographic and latency based DNS routing of requests to the nearest endpoint server across the globe
- Super easy set up : just install plugin, activate and register to start using within minutes.
Screenshots
Geographic Endpoints for Content Delivery Network
Admin area settings
Before / After CDN performance improvement, taken from Pingdom
