[Griff]

Hi all,

I’m considering using BuddyPress with my Elementor site. I have never created a forum on a WordPress site before, but I am immediately wondering about the issue of storage, especially if images are involved as this can grow quite large quickly and eat up the available storage allowed by the hosting service.

Can BuddyPress connect to external storage such as Amazon S3? If so can text be stored as well as images? Is there another strategy that I’m overlooking to solve the storage issue with forums?

Thanks in advance!

Brenden 

[Venutius]

BuddyPress will use any storage the WordPress installation uses.

[Griff]

Oh nice! So stuff is just stored in the media library for example? And I can grab any of the media offloading plugins out there basically? Sorry, pretty new to this side of wordpress!

[Venutius]

Yes, BP uses the media library, so anything you use to create that storage in WP will be used by BP.