Private Uploads
- Musa Jatkowski
- Sarah Nguyen (Deactivated)
Private uploads add visibility options to all uploaded media files with two varieties of control – Individual Files and Private Sites.
Individual Files
One type of control allows you to set individual files as being private and also gives you control over the kinds of users that can have access.
If you are familiar with the Private Sites plugin, you will notice that the options for the user types are the same.
Private Sites
The other type of control works in tandem with the Private Sites plugin. When you set a site as private, within Settings > Reading: Site Visibility, all files are made private.
Individual file controls will not be visible when an entire site is made private.
A user is required to log in to view private files and will be prompted to do so when accessing a file directly.
Setting a file as private moves the file to a different folder on the server, thus changing the URL which will cause broken links to occur.