Technical Articles

This article makes an overall detailed presentation of WordPress File Upload security measures and capabilities. WordPress is by far the most popular CMS platform. Millions of websites, personal and professional, are built on it. Due to its popularity it is an often target to hackers, so administrators need to be careful and take precautions for […]

Webcam Capture is a new feature of WordPress File Upload plugin to capture screenshots or video from the device’s camera and upload it to the website. This is an experimental feature, because it is not yet supported by all browsers. For the moment it is supported by the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Edge and

WordPress File Upload plugin is able to send email notifications when files are uploaded. The recipients, the message subject and body, as well as more advanced options, can be configured using special attributes of the shortcode. The easiest way of setting-up email notifications is by using the Visual Editor of the plugin. So, after we

The Professional version of WordPress File Upload plugin does not have an automatic update feature, such as the Free one. So, updating to a newer version needs to be done manually. This guide shows you how to update WordPress File Upload Pro. Here are the steps: 1. Go to Dashboard / Plugins and Deactivate the

WordPress File Upload plugin is a very powerful and secure front-end file upload plugin.It supports captcha feature as a security measure to avoid automated unauthorized uploads by robots. The plugin uses the very well know Google Recaptcha. It supports both versions, the old and the new one, as shown below: To displaythe captcha just edit

WordPress File Upload plugin does not only upload files, but it also displays them in various ways. There are currently two ways to display uploaded files: Through the Dashboard for logged users Through a page or post for any user (logged or not) The Dashboard File Viewer The Dashboard File Viewer enables logged users to

WordPress File Upload plugin supports a number of filters and actions to better tailor it to your needs. The full list of filters and actions supported can be found in this article. Since version 3.6.0 administrators can define custom code to implement these filters right from the plugin’s area in Dashboard, without the need to

Since version 3.4.0 WordPress File Upload plugin became responsive, through fitmode attribute. When fitmode is set to “fixed” (default), the plugin behaves as before, maintaining backward compatibility. When fitmode is set to “responsive”, drawing of elements is totally different and improved as follows: dimensioning of the plugin’s elements using the percent (%) symbol is accurate

After 3.5.0 version, WordPress File Upload plugin supports Dropbox uploads. Administrators can choose to transfer the files uploaded by their website visitors to a Dropbox account. To enable Dropbox uploads, we first need to define a Dropbox account and allow the plugin to have access to it. We do this very easily by going to