At the moment, WP-Filebase does not offer any automatic backup function. Here's how to create a backup of all file meta data and settings: (more…)

Files uploaded to S3 using a 3rd-party uploader are not affected by the "Force Download" option in WP-Filebase Settings. (more…)

Download forcing works with a special HTTP header sent by the server to the browser. For files hosted on a remote server (e.g. added with Cloud Sync), the force download option provided by WP-Filebase does not take effect. (more…)

At a first glance, WP-Filebase only allows you to limit access by User Roles, but not User Groups added with 3rd-party plugins, such as UAM. Here's how to setup WP-Filebase Pro and the User Access Manager Plugin to set permissions for User Groups. (more…)

This instruction is now deprecated. Please use the instead, which is much easier to use and comes with native search feature. DataTables have their own search box to filter files. This only uses file meta data that is actually visivle in the table. If you want to search for file tags that are not included in the table, you have to use WP-Filebase's search form: (more&hellip...

To get the RSS Feed for Files, just append ?post_type=wpfb_filepage to your Blog's feed url. For example: http://example.com/feed/?post_type=wpfb_filepageIf you want to list the files beside other Wordpress Posts, use this query string:?post_type[]=post&post_type[]=wpfb_filepage

WP-Filebase Pro needs the NONCE_SALT constant for secure server activation requests. (more…)

When uploading files in the browser the maximum file size is limited by server configuration. WP-Filebase does NOT have a file size limit!To uploading larger files, the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size need to be increased in php.ini.If your server configuration allows it you can add this line to your .htaccess:php_value upload_max_filesize 30MIf you are on...

WP-Filebase Pro can put all files of a category (and its sub-categories) into a single ZIP files. Users can download whole categories without clicking trough all their files.To provide the link to the ZIP file use %cat_zip_file% in your category template. If you want to insert the links somehwere without using a file list, do it like this (replace 123 with the category ID):...

File Pages have the Custom Post type wpfb_filepage. By default current theme's single.php is used. To use a custom template for File Pages, create single-wpfb_filepage.php in your theme's directory. You can copy the code from single.php if you don't want to start from scratch.That's it, WordPress will automatically use the new file when it renders the File Page.

Here's the Template and CSS code for the new default File and Category Template: HTML File Template: <div class="wpfilebase-file-default" onclick="if('undefined' == typeof event.target.href) document.getElementById('wpfb-file-link-%uid%').click();"> <div class="icon"><a href="%file_url%" target="_blank" title="Download %file_display_name%"><img align="m...

You can modify existing translation files or add new language files. But don't put your files in the plugin directory wp-filebase-pro/languages, otherwise they will be deleted on next plugin update! (more…)

Thumbnail sizes can be adjusted for files that are either images or PDF, i.e. that WP-Filebase can generate a thumbnail for them.To change the Size, first set WP-Filebase- >Settings-> Display -> Thumbnail Size to the desired value. Then run the tool WP-Filebase -> Rescan Files -> Forced thumbnail update. 

WP-Filebase uses WordPress' default file type icons in wp-includes/images/crystal for files without a thumbnail. To use custom icons copy the icon files in PNG format named like pdf.png or audio.png to wp-content/images/fileicons (you have to create that folder first).

When you experiencing that downloaded files have a wrong extension in Firefox (.part) enable either Permalinks (SEO friendly URLs) in WordPress Settings or enable "Always Force Download" in WP-Filebase Download settings.(more…)

By default, WP-Filebase sets folder permissions to 777 and file permissions to 666. This gives best compatibility with all server setups, although it's not a secure setting.To change the permissions that are applied during Sync, add the following two lines to your wp-config.php:define('WPFB_PERM_FILE', 666); define('WPFB_PERM_DIR', 755);Put them above/* That's ...

DataTables include some GUI texts that are english by default but can be translated in all other languages. (more…)

Categories are standardly sorted by names. This is how you set a custom sort order: (more…)

When having files with long names it is sometimes necessary to trim the name so it will fit in one line, for example in the File List Widget. (more…)