Hi Alexandre,

I like your Private Media plugin a lot and would like to provide code updates and bug fixes. This plugin was not updated during the last 4 years and there are some issues with PHP 8.x. I saw you created an empty GitHub repository at https://github.com/froger-me/private-media. Could you please upload your code there to make it easier to provide pull requests. Having access to the full build system would also be great.

First there is a fatal error in class-private-media-request-handler.php:

• Fatal error: Uncaught Error: header(): Argument #3 ($response_code) must be of type int, string given
  in?/…/wp-includes/functions.php?on line?1471
• status_header()
  wp-content/plugins/private-media/inc/class-private-media-request-handler.php:155

Where the following line fails:

status_header( $status );

Your code always uses a string for $status. The workaround for now is:

status_header( intval( $status ) );

With this change the plugin runs fine again.

I would like to add the following changes:

• Upload private content right away: currently files have to be uploaded, edited and to be changed to private (hotlinking prevention or access roles).
  • This could be activated by a hook. In our case it depends on the upload location.
• Rename “Prevent hotlinks (even when not limited by role)” this should be named “Always private (prevent hotlinking)”.

Other than that I could not find any WordPress incompatibilities.

The running of Private Media 1.2 is interfering with the correct functioning of my Job Manager Plugin. The Private Media site says the plugin is compatible up to version 4.9.15 of WordPress and I am running version 5.4.2. Are there any updates available to Private Media? If not, can you suggest an alternative Plugin for me to download please? Thanks…Camilla

Hey, thanks for your plugin. Just in case it is not allready on your feature list:

My usecase is to prevent access to photosets with around a couple of hundred photos per set. That is pain in the ass, to prevent every photo manually.

Do you have a hint for me, to deal with that problem more easily?

Thanks in advance

I have a site where the wordpress install is in a sub-directory of /wp/
The rest of the site is server from root so wp-content is still https://www.mysite.com/wp-content. This is set by the site’s host.

When I set an item in the media library to ‘prevent hotlinks’ or ‘limit to role’ then the URL changes to:

https://www.mysite.com/wp//var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/wp-content/pvtmed-uploads/2019/01/hidden-image.jpg

Which does not work.

https://www.mysite.com/wp-content/pvtmed-uploads/2019/01/hidden-image.jpg

Does work but access to the file is not restricted.

Any idea how I can fix this?