After many users’ requests, WordPress File Upload plugin has been extended to allow various field types to be used in order to submit additional user data along with the uploaded files. These field types are: Simple Text Multiple Lines Text Number Email Confirmation Email Password Confirmation Password Checkbox Radio Button Date Time DateTime Listbox Dropdown […]
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In a previous article we explained how we can use CSS to style WordPress File Upload plugin, so that it fits colors and fonts of the active theme. By default, the plugin styles its HTML elements to have the same look among all themes. To do that, it uses ‘strict’ CSS styling, meaning that it
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WordPress File Upload is a plugin for uploading files from the front-end. It has many capabilities and functionalities, like selecting multiple files, including user data alogn with the uploaded files, send emails, viewing and downloading the uploaded files and many more. When dealing with files, security is important. So, the question is How Secure Is
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This simple guide shows how to install WordPress File Upload plugin and start using it. If you have already installed the plugin, go straight to step 2. Step 1 – Installation (only for Free version) Install the plugin as you would with any other plugin. Go to Dashboard / Plugins / Add New and in
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A unique feature of WordPress File Upload plugin is its visual editor, called Shortcode Composer. The Shortcode Composer enables the website administrators to configure the plugin easily, without any knowledge of shortcodes. This is necessary as the plugin is highly configurable with more than 50 options. After the plugin has been installed and added into
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Lot of users request the ability to customize the upload path of WordPress File Upload plugin. This article describes how we can change the upload path according to our needs. In the following example we have selected the uploaded files to be added in Media folder of our website (medialink attribute set to “true”). When
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Captchas are commonly used in websites when submitting a form, uploading files or in general when sending data in order to verify that the sender is not a robot. There are lots of captchas. Google has its own, Google Recaptcha. Google Recaptcha works with public and secret keys between the server and client side in
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Suppose that you want your visitors to upload files to your website and you want them to be able to view and download these files. This artile describes how can we create a simple front-end file browser to display the files that we have uploaded using WordPress File Upload plugin. The file browser will be
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Version 2.6.0 of WordPress File Upload plugin introduces a brand new upload algorithm. The whole upload process has been redesigned from scratch so that it becomes more stable. Stability is very important when uploading very large files. Suppose that you upload a 1GB file, that takes 2 hours to upload. Several things can happen in
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WordPress File Upload plugin for WordPress makes use of filters and actions for allowing the administrator to perform some advanced pre and post processing of the uploaded files. There are currently two filters and one action: Filter wfu_before_file_check: It is executed before file is uploaded and before any internal file checks, in order to allow
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