content uploads

  • Help, I apologize in advance for my lack of understanding here. While trying to update my website I realized my wp-content/uploads/ were open for anyone to see and I also noticed that pictures that were not mine had been uploaded to view here. Can anyone tell me.
    1. How do I remove these pictures?
    2. How do I make my content uploads secure so they can’t be viewed by everyone???

    I know the bare minimum on this stuff so as simple as you can make it is greatly appreciated:)

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  • to remove those pictures, goto media, library in your dashboard.
    there you will gonna find those pictures. delete it.

    and about visibility of uploads m not clear. so can you post it more detailly

    Thread Starter confuzed777

    (@confuzed777)

    I got the pictures down, had to go into file permissions to get them off through filezilla.

    Right now you don’t need a password to see my content uploads so that means everything I upload to my site can be viewed and downloaded by scrapers (i think that’s what they are called). I want to figure out how I can change this so that my wp-content/uploads are available to me and not the public. Someone suggested https://technicallyeasy.net/2009/03/preventing-directory-browsing-with-htaccess/
    but I can’t figure out how to find my .htaccess?

    Should I change my file permissions for my content uploads? Right now they are 755.

    .htaccess file is located in your root directory

    else change the file permission to 700

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