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8 Best Dropbox Plugins for WordPress

Last updated on October 10th, 2014 by Editorial Staff
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8 Best Dropbox Plugins for WordPress

Dropbox is one of the most popular free cloud storage provider. Using cloud storage to save your WordPress backups, media files, and other important documents is a great strategy. Your documents and files will remain safe no matter where you are and what device you are using. There are several WordPress plugins that allow you to integrate your WordPress site to your Dropbox account. In this article, we have hand-picked some of the best Dropbox plugins for WordPress.

1. BackupBuddy

BackupBuddy allows you to save your backups to Dropbox

BackupBuddy is one of the most popular and reliable WordPress site backup and restore plugin. It comes with the ability to automatically create backups on a given schedule and save them to any location you want including your Dropbox account. Once you have connected it to your Dropbox account, you don’t have to do it again and the plugin will keep storing your backups to Dropbox.

See our guide on how to keep your WordPress content safe with BackupBuddy.

2. BackWPup

A free backup plugin that lets you save your backups to Dropbox

A good free alternative is BackWPup, which also creates complete backup of your WordPress site and can store it on your Dropbox account. You can schedule your backups based on how frequently you update your website. BackWPup will take care of storing them on your Dropbox cloud storage.

See this tutorial on how to create complete WordPress backup for free with BackWPup.

3. WordPress Backup to Dropbox

Saving backups to cloud storage is really important for many WordPress users. This is why we have another neat plugin called WordPress Backup to Dropbox. It saves all your media and database to Dropbox storage. You can also schedule the plugin to automatically backup your site on predefined settings. There are also some premium addons available to extend functionality of the plugin.

4. Post via Dropbox

Post via Dropbox

Post via Dropbox allows you to create WordPress posts by uploading text files to your Dropbox account. When you create and upload a text file, this plugin fetches it from your Dropbox account. By default it uses the text file’s name as the title, but you can also define your own titles, categories, tags, etc. It also supports Markdown formatting, so you can easily format your posts within the text file. This is great for text editors and note taking apps for mobile phones which allow you to save a text file to your Dropbox account.

5. Dropbox Photo Sideloader

Adding images from Dropbox in WordPress media uploader

Dropbox to Sideloader is a simple plugin which allows you to insert images from your Dropbox account using the WordPress media uploader. It appears into the sidebar of media uploader interface where you need to connect your Dropbox account by creating an app and using the app key and secret. This plugin is ideal for sharing personal photos and files from your Dropbox account on a WordPress site.

6. Simple Dropbox Upload

Simple Dropbox Upload settings

Simple Dropbox Upload allows your users to upload files directly to your dropbox account. After installing the plugin, you will need to authorize it to access your Dropbox account. You can customize the upload form and show customized message after successful upload. You can display the upload form on any WordPress post or page with the [simple-wp-dropbox] shortcode.

7. Gravity Forms Dropbox Uploader

Uploading from Gravity Forms to your Dropbox account

Gravity Forms is a popular WordPress contact form plugin. Gravity Forms Dropbox Uploader is a free add-on plugin which allows you to add uploads from Gravity Forms to your Dropbox account. First you need to authenticate the plugin by providing a Dropbox app key and secret. After that you can add add the Dropbox upload field into any form created with Gravity Forms.

8. Simply Attached

Simply Attached

As the name suggests, Simply Attached allows you to attach any files from your Dropbox account to your WordPress posts and pages. Users can download these attachments when visiting your posts. This is a great way to serve your attached files from cloud instead of your own web server.

We hope this article helped you find some of the best Dropbox plugins for WordPress. You may also want to look at our list of best WordPress backup plugins.

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  1. Williams says:
    Jun 23, 2020 at 10:45 am

    You could take in mind WP Media Folder! It has a lot of options and allows you to connect your media library with Dropbox and other cloud services!

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jun 24, 2020 at 8:34 am

      Thank you for your recommendation :)

      Reply
  2. Rachael says:
    Aug 5, 2016 at 1:37 am

    I am currently using a Backup & Restore Dropbox plugins by WPAdm and I can attest to the fact that it is quite different from other plugins,Its easy and free to use. I had to start making use of the PRO version which i have been using for 5 months now .It gives a one year license and technical support, and a scheduler which i use to clone or migrate website to other hosting or server and it does not allow the activities of hackers.

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  3. Christopher Anderton says:
    Oct 23, 2014 at 1:36 pm

    One thing to consider is that some shared hosting environments has problems with some of the Dropbox plugins.

    I noticed in some cases Dropbox plugins used a vast amount of resources. Normally it’s just for a short amount of time or not even noticeable. But i’ve seen accounts get temporarily suspended because of this.

    So, test them first. Even if a plugin looks and feel nice, test it first. Also, check if the plugin is coded properly and follows best practice.

    Reply
  4. Kia S. says:
    Oct 13, 2014 at 7:34 pm

    As someone who has crossed the dropbox free limits i would love to know other save to cloud wordpress backup options. Like to sugarsync, one drive google drive etc?

    Reply
  5. Reena says:
    Oct 13, 2014 at 12:39 am

    Such a helpful article. I’ve been looking for a way to get client’s to upload directly to my dropbox and 6. & 7. are perfect! Thanks!

    Reply
  6. Alex Ivanovs says:
    Oct 12, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    That’s awkward.

    http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/11/edward-snowden-new-yorker-festival/

    Reply
  7. Grey says:
    Oct 11, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    I can’t believe you left UpdraftPlus out of the list. It can back up to DropBox as well as a number of other cloud services, including Google Drive and Amazon S3. Restoring a site is simple, and it can clone a WordPress installation to another domain. I use it on all my sites.

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  8. Kate_H says:
    Oct 10, 2014 at 4:56 pm

    Some great Dropbox plugins listed.

    Is it possible to host photos in Dropbox and serve them on your wordpress site or do you think it’s better to use Amazons S3?

    Reply
  9. Davey141010 says:
    Oct 10, 2014 at 3:19 pm

    BackWPUp is dangerous. Since it uploads all backups in the same app folder, it allows hackers to travel from one site that is backupped to your dropbox account to another.

    I haven’t tested the others, but they may have the same issues.

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