For example, if you set all file uploads by editors to be auto-protected as well as remove editors from this FPC, any files uploaded by editors will still be auto-protected. This File Protection Control (FPC) doesn’t interfere with the auto-protection of new media files feature.According to WordPress roles and capabilities, Authors are only allowed to publish and manage their own posts by default, and so, protect or unprotect their own files.By default, administrators, editors, and authors are allowed to protect or unprotect your WordPress files. Users without permission will still be able to see the file protection status, but there is no way to change it. ADVANCED OPTIONSĮnable you to select user roles who can protect or unprotect your private files. So everyone can see but they won’t be able to access the file directly. (5) Grant Web Crawlers AccessĮnable this option to grant specific search engines and social network bots to access the protected files.Īs a result, when you share a protected file URL on social media sites, the file preview will still display. Give you a choice in hiding all your sensitive information, such as readme.html, license.txt, and wp-config-sample.php. It is not necessary to enable this option if you always keep your WordPress installation up-to-date. Help you prevent attacks from exploiting known vulnerabilities on an old version of WordPress. Turn on this option if you do not want others to browse and view all of WordPress folders and subdirectories. Other documents won’t be accessible either. It means other people cannot copy and embed your file URLs in their own websites anymore. Prevent other people from stealing and using your images or files without permission.
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(3) Force Downloadįorce users to download a media file when they click its download links by enabling this option. Our Gold version won’t auto-generate a new download link for existing protected files. If you enable this option, when a file is protected, our plugin will automatically create a new private download link for it. (2) Generate Download Link Once Protected Please note that a valid prefix contain lowercase English letters (a-z), numbers (0-9), dash (-) and underscore (_) only. If you change “private” into “membership”, all your download links will become membership /your-custom-filename. By default, your download links look something like private /your-custom-filename. This option should be enabled when you are to protect files already embedded in content.Īs soon as you enable this option, “Apply to these pages or posts only” will be shown allowing you to choose which pages or posts you want to replace unprotected file URLs in content.Īllow you to change “private” prefix of your private download links. The default “No Access” page is your website’s 404 error page. In other words, unauthorized users will be redirected to this “No Access” page.
Since Prevent Direct Access Gold version 3.1.2.6, all protected files are accessible to its author by default, regardless of how the file access permission is set.Īllow you to select which page, post or even a custom link to display when users have no access to your protected files or when they click on expired private download links. Only these user roles will be able to access your private files. When you “choose custom roles”, a new “Grant access to these user roles only” option will appear, which allows you to select multiple user roles such as authors, subscribers, and contributors.
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