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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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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All the scripts run on a VPS with 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM.
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.
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....
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!
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.
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.
Henry Wright has kindly sponsored the Featured Media feature.
优素映像 (Yousu Image) has sponsored the latest Like feature which doesn’t depend on BuddyPress, any more.
Richard Ellis has sponsored the profile picture along with the link back to the profile in the media pop ups.
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)
Pros & Cons: This is a review from the Editorial staff of WP Hive for test purposes. We are sure the plugin made it with good heart for WordPress users and we want to encourage his/her efforts by the first review.
Overall:The plugin should be working great. Even if it does not, we respect the time and effort. If you are using this plugin - leave a review with more information.
Stina Gunnarsdottir
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Pros & Cons: This is a review from the Editorial staff of WP Hive for test purposes. We are sure the plugin made it with good heart for WordPress users and we want to encourage his/her efforts by the first review.
Overall:The plugin should be working great. Even if it does not, we respect the time and effort. If you are using this plugin - leave a review with more information.