Groups File Access WordPress Plugin

Last Update

12 July 2013

Regular License

$15

Extended License

$75

Sales

226

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File downloads for authorized users

Groups File Access is a WordPress plugin that allows to provide file download links for authorized users. Access to files is restricted to users by their group membership.

Features

Restrict access to downloads to authorized user groups Full multisite support (WordPress network installations) File management area Upload files via FTP and bulk import File access notifications (customizable) Flexible shortcodes: groups_can_access_file, groups_can_not_access_file, groups_file_info, groups_file_url, groups_file_link, groups_file_visibility Limited or unlimited number of downloads per user

Please reply to the Call for feature requests if you want new features added.

Description

With Groups File Access you can provide file downloads for Premium Members or allow only registered users to download files from your site.

Access to files is restricted by group membership. To be able to download a file, a user must be a member of a group that is assigned to the file. If an access limit has been set for the file, the user must also have accessed (downloaded) the file fewer times than the file’s access limit.

If you want to restrict access to a file to users that belong to a certain group, create the group, add the desired users to the group and assign the group to the files that the group should be able to access. More than one group can be assigned to a file.

Shortcodes are used on posts or pages to render links to files, provide information about files and conditionally show content to users depending on whether they are allowed to access a file.

For example, the [groups_file_link group=”Premium”] shortcode renders links to files that members of the Premium group can click to download the files.

Demo

Here is a demo site where you can register to see how the plugin works for group members who can download files: http://itthinx.org/gfademo

Screenshots of the admin areas are provided there as well.

Support

The plugin page where you can post questions and give feedback is here: http://www.itthinx.com/plugins/groups-file-access

If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, your feedback is welcome! Please try to solve any problems you might encounter there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work.

Documentation

Detailed documentation is available here: http://www.itthinx.com/documentation/groups-file-access

Groups

Groups File Access is an extension to the free Groups plugin which I develop and maintain and can be downloaded here.

Credits

The icons used in the artwork above are part of or derived from icons in the the Gartoon icons by Kuswanto.