rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress

Version: 4.6.12

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Add albums, photo, audio/video upload, privacy, sharing, front-end uploads & more. All this works on mobile/tablets devices.

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rtMedia is the only complete media solution for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress, and is WordPress.com VIP compatible. Built with a mobile-first approach, it works on mobile/tablet devices (like iPhone/iPad, Android). Live Demos If you’re in a hurry, you can skip the long list of features in subsequent sections and just explore live demos! rtMedia Demo Video Tour Since rtMedia has many features video doesn’t include all features: rtMedia Features WordPress Integration – Display media on WordPress author pages ( eg: http://demo.rtmedia.io/author/admin/media/ ) BuddyPress Integration – Find a new media tab under BuddyPress Profiles & Groups. BuddyPress Activity Stream – Attach media to activity status updates just like Facebook. Albums – Organise media into manageable collections. BuddyPress Group albums support collaboration. Responsive – Album Slideshow (Lightbox), video player, uploads work on mobiles & tablets. Support for swipe guestures. Privacy – Control who can see media files, albums and BuddyPress activities. Templating system – Completely customise rtMedia by modifying the template files. Just copy over the template folder to your theme. Featured Media – This can be used for facebook-style cover photo on profiles. rtMedia Uploader – Use [rtmedia_uploader] shortcode or <?php rtmedia_uploader() ?> template tag, to show drag-n-drop uploader in any WordPress area (post, page, custom-post, etc). rtMedia Gallery – Display media gallery anywhere on your site using [rtmedia_gallery] shortcode or...

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Tests done by WP Hive test script Results

Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is more than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB
Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found no PHP error while activating this plugin on our server
No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
Latest PHP 7.4.8 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
Latest WordPress 6.0 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
Frequently updated The plugin was updated at least once in the last 90 days

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The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1. The server is a 8 core CPU with 8GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 7.4.8 & WordPress 6.0.
The database server is MySQL 8.0.21 and the default PHP memory limit is 256M.

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Total Downloads

10K

Active Installation

10 years

On WordPress

0.0%

Growth Rate

4

Support Thread

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About rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress

Description

rtMedia is the only complete media solution for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress, and is WordPress.com VIP compatible.

Built with a mobile-first approach, it works on mobile/tablet devices (like iPhone/iPad, Android).

Live Demos

If you’re in a hurry, you can skip the long list of features in subsequent sections and just explore live demos!

rtMedia Demo

Video Tour

Since rtMedia has many features video doesn’t include all features:

rtMedia Features

WordPress Integration – Display media on WordPress author pages ( eg: http://demo.rtmedia.io/author/admin/media/ )
BuddyPress Integration – Find a new media tab under BuddyPress Profiles & Groups.
BuddyPress Activity Stream – Attach media to activity status updates just like Facebook.
Albums – Organise media into manageable collections. BuddyPress Group albums support collaboration.
Responsive – Album Slideshow (Lightbox), video player, uploads work on mobiles & tablets. Support for swipe guestures.
Privacy – Control who can see media files, albums and BuddyPress activities.
Templating system – Completely customise rtMedia by modifying the template files. Just copy over the template folder to your theme.
Featured Media – This can be used for facebook-style cover photo on profiles.
rtMedia Uploader – Use [rtmedia_uploader] shortcode or template tag, to show drag-n-drop uploader in any WordPress area (post, page, custom-post, etc).
rtMedia Gallery – Display media gallery anywhere on your site using [rtmedia_gallery] shortcode or template tag.
Upload-Terms – This feature is useful to set terms of services page on website during user upload media on website.

Audio/Video Conversion

rtMedia has a premium solution to take care of audio/video conversion.

Audio/Video Transcoding Service – If free plan is not enough for you, there is monthly subscription service also. Easiest to setup.

rtMedia Premium Addons

Instagram-Effects – Users can apply Instagram like filters to photos.
Photo-Tagging – Users can tag their friends/other users in photos.
Photo-Watermark – rtMedia Photo Watermark add-on let you watermarked or copyright your uploaded photos.)
Membership – It provides membership functionality in your site.
Social-Sync – It allows you to import media from your Facebook account.
myCRED-Points – It allows you to integrate rtMedia with myCRED and award virtual points for various rtMedia activities, like media upload, likes, deleted, albums creation, playlist, etc.
CubePoints – It allows you to integrate rtMedia with CubePoints and award virtual points for various rtMedia activities, like upload media, delete media, create albums, playlists, etc.
Playlists – This plugin is used to create a playlist for uploaded music file with rtMedia.
Favorites – This plugin allows users to create their own list of favorite media.
Moderation – This plugin is for reporting media if user find offensive.
Custom-Attributes – This plugin is for categorizing media using attributes defined by site owner when uploading.
Docs-and-Other-files – This plugin allows uploading for doc, pdf and other file types such as zip, tar, etc.
Default-Albums – This plugin allows the creation of multiple default albums for rtMedia uploads.
Podcast-Feed – Read rtMedia uploads from iTunes as well as any RSS feed-reader/podcasting software.
Restrictions – Site admin can set limits in terms of total size & file count.
bbPress-Attachments – Attach media files to bbPress forum topics and replies.
WordPress-Sitewide-Gallery – Site admin can create and upload media into WordPress album.
WordPress-Comment-Attachments – Allow users to upload a media file in WordPress comment attachment box.
Social-Sharing – Share uploaded media on social network sites like Facebook, twitter, linkedin, Google+. This addon integrate with rtSocial plugin.
Sidebar-Widgets – This addon provide widgets to upload media and display gallery for rtMedia plugin.
5-Star-Ratings – User can rate the media files from 1 to 5 star.
Edit-Mp3-Info-(ID3 Tags) – Allow user to edit MP3 FIle Audio tags (ID 3 tags).
Sorting – Sort uploaded media based on file size, ascending/descending title, upload date of media.
Bulk-Edit – Allow users to move files from one album to another, change attributes, change privacy, delete files in bulk.
BuddyPress-Profile-Picture – Allow users to set their profile picture from existing uploaded media file.
Album-Cover-Art – Allow users to set album cover from uploaded image.
Direct-Download-Link – This addon provide a download button for all the uploaded media.
Upload-by-URL – Allow users to upload media using absolute URL.
Likes – This add-on let you know who liked media. User can also see which media file he/she liked under user profile.
Activity-URL-Preview – This addon provides a preview of the URL that is shared and shows up on BuddyPress activity.
View-Counter – Enable view count for all the uploaded media.
Shortcode-Generator – The shortcode generator button added in WordPress post and page editor for all the rtMedia shortcodes.
Album-Privacy – Set album privacy when user create new albums or edit album.
BuddyPress-Group-Media-Control – Allow group owner to provide media upload feature for their group.
Set-Custom-Thumbnail-for-Audio/Video – Allow media owner to change the thumbnail of uploaded audio/video files.
rtMedia-SEO – Generate XML sitemap of all the public media files uploaded via rtMedia plugin, also compatible with Yoast-SEO plugin if you are already using on your site.

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GitHub – Please mention your wordpress.org username when sending pull requests.
Translations – Please do NOT use Github for translations. Instead Use this GlotPress project

Translation

rtMedia includes full translation support. Head over to the translation project to contribute your translations. If you don’t see the language of your choice, let us know in the support forum, we’ll add it.

Dutch translation by [carry2web] (https://profiles.wordpress.org/carry2web)
Italian translation by [Paolo]
Dutch translation by rjpj
Polish translation by Polski_Ziom
Spanish translation by Andrés Felipe and [d3ne]
Solvak translation by igid26
Italian translation by [Yukiko.Kawa]
Persian translation by mahdiar
German translation by [hannes.muc]

(Note: Credits are given for translations that are at least 50% complete.)

Credits

rtMedia uses the following projects/sources for some functionality

MediaElement.js for html5 audio/video player
Maginific Popup for responsive lightbox
getID3 gets us some ID tags for the media
Foundation for the media grid and layout
Backbone.js for an MVC architecture for the frontend

Performance

Memory Usage

Average memory usage is 469.9 KB
This is less than 50% plugins

Page Speed

Average page loading time is increased by 0.02 s
This is faster than 99% plugins

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Change

Average Change

+ 0.02s

/(front page)

+ 0.01s

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

- 0.05s

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 0.03s

/wp-admin/edit.php

- 0.01s

/wp-admin/index.php

+ 0.06s

/wp-admin/media-new.php

- 0.03s

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

- 0.04s

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 0.07s

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 0.16s

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 0.06s

/wp-admin/upload.php

- 0.07s

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Memory Usage Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data

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Change

Average Change

+ 469.9KB

/ (front page)

+ 56.18KB

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 57.36KB

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 57.3KB

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 58.62KB

/wp-admin/index.php

+ 58.06KB

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 57.11KB

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 65.14KB

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 62.54KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 58.63KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 58.08KB

/wp-admin/upload.php

+ 57.08KB

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Database Tables

The plugin has added 5 additional options to your WordPress.

wp_rt_rtm_activity
wp_rt_rtm_api
wp_rt_rtm_media
wp_rt_rtm_media_interaction
wp_rt_rtm_media_meta

WP-Options

The plugin has added 10 additional options to your WordPress website.

RT_RTMEDIA_FOR_WORDPRESS_BUDDYPRESS_AND_BBPRESS_DB_VERSIONS
rtmedia_current_media_slug
rtmedia_flush_rules_plugin_version
rtmedia_inspirebook_release_notice
rtmedia_media_size_import_pending_count
rtmedia_premium_addon_notice
rtmedia-global-albums
rtmedia-options
rtmedia-update-template-notice-v3_9_4
rtMigration-pending-count

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Memory Usage

This plugin uses 469.9KB memory on average, which is more than a plugin should use.

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