Dropbox Plugin for WordPress: Put Your Dropbox Files to Work on Your Site

★ The original Dropbox plugin for WordPress: the first to bring a full file browser, inline previews and fast media streaming to Dropbox.

Your files already live in Dropbox, so why copy them into WordPress all over again? Out-of-the-Box (WP Cloud Plugins) brings your Dropbox folders straight onto your pages, so visitors browse, preview and download the real files, live from Dropbox. No duplicates on your server, no sync tool running in the background, no second library to keep tidy. Connect your account in one click, drop a module on the page, and you’re publishing in minutes, without touching a line of code.

✔ Dropbox Basic ✔ Dropbox Plus ✔ Dropbox Family ✔ Dropbox Standard ✔ Dropbox Essentials ✔ Dropbox Professional ✔ Dropbox Business ✔ Dropbox Advanced ✔ Dropbox Enterprise

★ 25,000+ customers since 2012  •  14+ years of active development

❱❱❱ See it live • ❱❱❱ Play in the sandbox (no install) • ❱❱❱ Get Out-of-the-Box, download instantly

✱ Connect Dropbox to WordPress in 5 steps

Out-of-the-Box is the Dropbox plugin for WordPress that shows your documents, images and media right on your posts and pages, straight from your Dropbox account, always up to date.

✔ Dropbox Basic ✔ Dropbox Plus ✔ Dropbox Business

Getting your Dropbox content onto your site is genuinely quick. Here’s the whole thing:

1. Link your Dropbox account to the plugin with one click.
2. In the WordPress editor, open the Out-of-the-Box Shortcode Builder and pick a ready-made mode.
3. Choose the Dropbox folder you want to show.
4. Fine-tune the look with the on-screen controls, no code, no guesswork.
5. Insert the shortcode, hit publish, and you’re live.

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Out-of-the-Box is part of the WP Cloud Plugins family, trusted on 10,000+ company websites and refined over 14+ years of development. Keep your files where they belong, in Dropbox, and let your website do the rest.
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❱❱❱ See it live • ❱❱❱ Play in the sandbox (no install) • ❱❱❱ Get Out-of-the-Box, download instantly

✱ What people build with Out-of-the-Box

A few common ways teams put their Dropbox files to work on WordPress:

• Client portals: give each client a private Dropbox folder to preview, download and drop off documents, without seeing anyone else’s files.
• Download centers: deliver manuals, price lists, brochures or software fast, straight from Dropbox.
• Documentation & knowledge bases: keep your docs in Dropbox and let the site always show the latest version.
• Media libraries: stream video lessons, podcasts or audio right on the page, with the files staying on Dropbox.
• Portfolios & event galleries: build image galleries from a Dropbox folder and refresh them by adding photos in the cloud.
• Member areas & team workspaces: share the right files with the right people, controlled per WordPress user and role.

✱ Modules: build exactly what you need

Mix and match modules to create a client portal, a download center, a media library or a documentation hub. Whatever you build, your files never leave Dropbox.

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ALWAYS IN SYNC
◉ FILE BROWSER | ❱❱❱ DEMO
Give visitors a real file manager for any Dropbox folder: grid or list view, breadcrumb navigation, search and drag-and-drop uploads. Change a file in Dropbox and it updates on your site on the next page load, so you manage everything in one place and never touch WordPress twice.

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NEVER RE-UPLOAD AGAIN
◉ PHOTO GALLERY | ❱❱❱ DEMO
Turn any Dropbox folder into a polished gallery in seconds. Add or remove photos in Dropbox and the gallery follows, with no re-uploading, no rebuilding, and your originals stay safely in the cloud.

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COLLECT FILES FROM ANYONE
◉ UPLOAD BOX | ❱❱❱ DEMO
Let visitors drop files straight into your Dropbox. Pair it with the form-plugin integrations and Private Folders and you’ve got a full client area, where every client uploads to their own private folder without ever seeing anyone else’s.

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STREAM STRAIGHT FROM DROPBOX
◉ MEDIA PLAYER | ❱❱❱ DEMO
Play audio and video right on the page with a clean HTML5 player: playlists, playback speed and captions included. It streams from Dropbox, so playback is fast and your source files stay put. It can even build a playlist automatically from the folder you choose.
Supported formats: mp3, mp4, m4a & m4v (AAC/H.264), oga & ogv (Vorbis/Theora), webmv (Vorbis/VP8).

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SHOW OFF YOUR IMAGES
◉ SLIDER / CAROUSEL | ❱❱❱ DEMO
Spin up a responsive image slider from a Dropbox folder and manage the contents from your cloud. Style it in the Shortcode Builder without code, and it looks sharp on every screen size, from phone to desktop.

✱ Features you’ll actually use

The features and integrations below let you build a genuinely custom file solution in a few clicks, the kind you’d normally pay a developer for.

ALL IN THE CLOUD
Your files stay on Dropbox instead of your server, so you save disk space and bandwidth. The plugin manages everything directly on Dropbox, and visitors download from Dropbox’s servers, not yours.

FAST FILE DELIVERY
Out-of-the-Box is built around quick delivery: files and media are served straight from Dropbox, so downloads and playback start without the wait, and the load stays off your own server.

SHORTCODE BUILDER
Set up any module through friendly on-screen controls, no code required. There’s a lot you can tweak, but even first-timers get a great result on the first try.

INLINE PREVIEW
Open documents and images in a built-in lightbox, so people read and view files without leaving your page or downloading first.

FULL-TEXT SEARCH
Let visitors find files by name and extension. On Dropbox Business, full-text search goes further and looks inside file contents too.

UPLOAD DIRECT TO THE CLOUD
Files under 300MB upload straight from the visitor’s device to Dropbox, bypassing your server. Larger files fall back to your server’s upload limits.

EMBED FILES
Want a single document front and centre? Use the Embed button in the WordPress editor to drop a file neatly into any page or post.

WORDPRESS MEDIA LIBRARY
Pull files straight from Dropbox into the standard WordPress Media Library, so you can use your cloud files anywhere your theme and other plugins expect a media item.

PRIVATE FOLDERS / USER FOLDERS
Give every client their own private folder on Dropbox to preview, download and upload to. They see their folder and nobody else’s. Link one user to several folders (invoices, contracts, deliverables), or share a folder with someone who has no WordPress account via the built-in Guest user. Assign folders by hand, or let the plugin do it automatically as people sign up.

USER PERMISSIONS
Decide per module which users and roles may view, download, upload, rename or delete files, all through the WordPress user system you already know.

NOTIFICATIONS
Get a friendly email the moment someone downloads, uploads or deletes a file, so you always know when a client needs your attention.

EVENT LOGS
See every preview, download, stream and upload in the plugin’s reports, or in a summary email. Events can flow into Google Analytics too.

OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE
A built-in caching system remembers Dropbox’s responses, so your pages load quickly instead of calling Dropbox on every single view.

MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORTED
The package ships with 15+ translations and is fully translation-ready. Prefer to do your own? It’s easy with the free Loco Translate plugin. Send us a new translation and we’ll happily refund your purchase.

LAZY LOADING
The plugin only loads its assets on pages where a module is actually used: less traffic, faster pages.

RESPONSIVE DESIGN
File Browser, Gallery, Upload Box and Media Player all look great on desktop and mobile alike.

PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT
In active development since 2012 and improved constantly ever since. Got a question or hit a snag? Open a ticket and we’ll do our best to get you sorted.

LIFETIME UPDATES – Free of Charge
Every update is automatic and free. Stay on the latest Out-of-the-Box release and enjoy new features as they land.

LOOKING FOR A NEW FEATURE?
We love good feedback. Need something the plugin doesn’t do yet? Drop us a line through support. We’ll see if we can add it in a future version, or write a bit of PHP to help you out.

↯ Plays nicely with your favourite plugins

Already using these? Out-of-the-Box slots right in, so you can build even more without starting over.

PAGE BUILDERS
Add cloud files to your pages with the builder you already use, no shortcode hunting required:

✔ Gutenberg
✔ Elementor
✔ Divi
✔ WPBakery

WOOCOMMERCE
Serve your WooCommerce digital downloads straight from Dropbox. With the Upload integration you can also let customers add documents to their orders, tucked away in an order-specific folder on your cloud.

ADVANCED CUSTOM FIELDS (ACF)
Pick cloud files and folders as ACF fields and surface them anywhere in your pages and posts. Use the ACF get_field() function to pull an item’s metadata into any theme template.

UNCANNY AUTOMATOR
Out-of-the-Box adds triggers to Uncanny Automator, so a plugin event (a new upload, a deleted file, and more) can kick off a recipe: fire off an email, a tweet, a WhatsApp message, or send data to another app.

EASY DIGITAL DOWNLOADS (EDD)
Selling with Easy Digital Downloads? Out-of-the-Box hooks right in and serves your EDD downloads directly from Dropbox.

SLACK
Pipe real-time alerts about plugin events into your Slack channels. Choose exactly which events (new upload, file removal, and so on) get a message.

FORM PLUGINS
Need more than the Upload Box offers? Out-of-the-Box connects to the popular form builders so you can design the exact upload form you want:

✔ Elementor Forms
✔ Gravity Forms
✔ Fluent Forms
✔ Formidable Forms
✔ Contact Form 7
✔ Ninja Forms
✔ WP Forms 

USER MANAGEMENT
Works with user-management plugins built on the WordPress user framework, including but not limited to:

✔ PrettyLinks
✔ Ultimate Member
✔ WP-Members
✔ UsersWP
✔ BuddyPress

URL SHORTENERS
Shorten your shared and direct file links with one of the supported APIs:

✔ Rebrandly
✔ Shorte.st
✔ Bit.ly

ReCAPTCHA
Turn on reCAPTCHA (v3) to make sure only real people can reach and use your modules.

❔ Wondering before you buy?

Will it run on my site?
Almost certainly. You need WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 8.0+ with the cURL extension, available on nearly every host. Tested up to PHP 8.3, with beta support for PHP 8.4. Full requirements are just below.

What if I get stuck?
You’re not on your own. Your purchase includes 6 months of support through our dedicated channel, backed by a plugin that’s been in active development for 14+ years.

And updates later on?
Free and automatic, straight from your WordPress plugin dashboard.

❔ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Where can I find the documentation for this plugin?
The documentation is included in the plugin package and also can be found here.

Q: Which License do I need?
FAQ article: All about Licenses (Single site / Multisite / Developer / Bulk).

Q: How can I update the plugin to the latest version?
Updates will automatically appear in your WordPress Plugin Dashboard. If you have trouble using the WordPress updater, check this FAQ article: How do I update the plugin?.

Q: How can I get support?
You can reach us via our dedicated support channel. Your purchase comes with 6 months of free support. You can renew/extend your support package if you need support after this period.

⚠ Requirements

• WordPress 5.8+
• PHP 8.0+ with cURL extension (available and enabled on almost all servers).
  The plugin is compatible up to PHP 8.3. Beta support for PHP 8.4.

✱ Updates

Always have the latest version of the plugin available via your WordPress Update dashboard!
⚡ Current version: 3.8.1 (1 July 2026)
❱❱❱ Release Notes

Ready to bring your Dropbox files to life on WordPress? Take it for a spin in the sandbox (no install, nothing to set up), or grab your copy and be live today.