Title: Google Cloud Storage plugin Author: Google Published: February 25, 2017 Last modified: September 2, 2020 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/gcs/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1604875) # Google Cloud Storage plugin By [Google](https://profiles.wordpress.org/google/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gcs.0.1.6.zip) * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/gcs/#description) * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/gcs/#reviews) * [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/gcs/#installation) * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/gcs/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gcs/) ## Description Google Cloud Storage plugin allows you to upload media files to a Google Cloud Storage bucket. ## Installation 1. Download the plugin and place it in your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory. 2. Enable this plugin in the WordPress admin UI, 3. Configure your Google Cloud Storage bucket in the plugin setting UI. 4. In Google Cloud Console, set the default acl of the bucket so that allUsers can read. Depending on your environment, you may need to configure a Google Service Account to call the APIs. To run this plugin on **Google App Engine for PHP 7.2**, it will work without additional configuration. To run this plugin on **Google Compute Engine** or **App Engine Flexible**, you will need to do the following: * Visit Cloud Console, go to `Compute` -> `instances` and select the instance where WordPress is running. * Stop the instance. * Once the instance has stopped, click **Edit** and you can now modify the scopes under **Cloud API access scopes**. Change the Storage scope from **Read Only** to **Full**. If you want to run this plugin outside of Google Cloud Platform, you need to configure your service account as follows: * Visit Cloud Console, go to `IAM & Admin` -> `Service accounts` and create a service account with `Storage Object Admin` permission and download the json key file. * Upload the json key file to the hosting server. Don’t put it in a public serving area. * Add the following line to wp-config.php (replace the file path with the real one). * `putenv('GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/secure-place/my-service-account.json');` ## FAQ Q. The plugin crashes with `No project ID was provided, and we were unable to detect a default project ID , what’s wrong? A. See the section about configuring the service account in the Installation section. Q. How to configure the default ACL on my Google Cloud Storage bucket? A. See: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-storage-not-work/page/2/#post- 8897852 ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4d924e3c1c293b5e9de4bcc3c9316634b9ab07f4493f7673cc89656b72d690f5? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Close but no cigar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/close-but-no-cigar-12/)󠁿 [Chef Tech](https://profiles.wordpress.org/patrouch/) April 14, 2023 I came across a major glitch when trying to export products from Woocommerce. The export returns an empty csv file (empty except for the header rows) unless I deactivate this plugin. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/923fd335cd962d29489474ec45ea33598bc16c98040fd542a304a01fdadef8bf? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[It Works!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-works-2265/)󠁿 [dioxunil](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dioxunil/) April 10, 2022 Just read what is written in the readme.txt ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1c351b2428890f1e9748acedb085d547353119e2075f96401183c601dcfc7382? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[major problems](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-problems-11/)󠁿 [bart2016](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bart2016/) June 10, 2021 it works, but with major problems. by default, it changes the media storage of WP to google storage, but after this plugin is installed, user cannot install any other extensions, because it will try to install into gs://xxx ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3039c023ff16191649c7cd9156fcdf7262a14f7127cf41496c3a9a39ad1c1280? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-3314/)󠁿 [aelsharawi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aelsharawi/) July 1, 2020 Google…you should not do that! poor insturction, not working either way API or Json file, maybe as I am under cloudflare? don’t know, what about the compatibility with other cdn plugins? ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b76225f409e42b614d01e1788da075062004de1026d75051db8664e071199cc2? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Useless in PHP 7.2 / Inútil en PHP 7.2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useless-in-php-7-2-inutil-en-php-7-2/)󠁿 [neoacevedo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neoacevedo/) July 20, 2018 Simply it isn’t activated on PHP7.2 so you HAVE TO use PHP < 7.1 in order to activate and use it. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fc71ae7a02caef8011ea21629998df6ca3f968c869ac2fa7ccaf181437f3f10b? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works great](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-5080/)󠁿 [Marco](https://profiles.wordpress.org/marcoherzog/) June 19, 2018 Maybe the instructions should include the updated wording: Visit Cloud Console, go to IAM & Admin -> Service accounts and create a service account with Storage Admin role and download the json key file. And keep in mind to make the bucket publicly available: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/making-data-public# buckets [ Read all 7 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gcs/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Google Cloud Storage plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Google ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/google/) [Translate “Google Cloud Storage plugin” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gcs) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gcs/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gcs/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gcs/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gcs/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.1.6 * Updates all dependencies #### 0.1.5 * Updates all dependencies * Adds HTTP header for tracking WordPress and plugin version #### 0.1.4 * Uses the most recent release of the Google Cloud Storage client library * Updates all dependencies #### 0.1.3 * Added a section for configuring service account to the readme * Added Frequently Asked Questions section to the readme * Updated dependencies #### 0.1.2 * Added “Tested up to” field to the readme #### 0.1.1 * Bundle vendor dir in the zip file #### 0.1 * Initial release ## Meta * Version **0.1.6** * Last updated **6 years ago** * Active installations **300+** * Tested up to **5.5.18** * PHP version ** 5.5 or higher ** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gcs/) * Tags * [google](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google/)[google cloud storage](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-cloud-storage/) * [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/gcs/advanced/) ## Ratings 2.7 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gcs/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 1 4-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gcs/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gcs/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 1 2-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gcs/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 3 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gcs/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gcs/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gcs/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Google ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/google/) ## Support Got something to say? 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