Looking for good public upload plug-in

  • Anyone know of a good plug-in for public photo uploading for WP 3.1? I run a website for a local club and I would like to integrate a super-easy photo uploader on the site so people can submit event photos. User skill level is VERY basic… they are having trouble using the FTP site I currently have set up to serve this function and I even have a PDF with screenshots showing them how to do it!

    My thought was to simply provide a generic “upload” page where they would submit their photos and I would organize and post them later, rather than having them submit them directly to an event gallery.

    Multiple file upload is a must; some organization on the backend would be nice (like grouping each session of uploads). I would rather that users not have to sign in to upload (and I know the security issues associated with that) but I might be open to making users for everyone as long as they don’t have to use anything complex. I’m trying to keep this as easy as possible.

    I’ve looked around and tried a few different plug-ins but everything I tried did not support multiple files. (e.g. upload widget, inline uploader)

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  • Hi wdln,

    Did you receive any replies on this query? I am also looking for a public uploader with support for multiple files. Please pass on any suggestions you get.

    Thread Starter wdln

    (@wdln)

    Nope. You see what I see…

    Uploadify seems to do everything we’re looking for and from the demo it looks very slick.

    Info on plugin

    Uploadify Website

    Unfortunately I haven’t managed to get the plugin installed and working yet. It’s late here right now, so I’ll come back to it tomorrow. Let me know if you try it out and get it working (and I’ll do the same).

    Thread Starter wdln

    (@wdln)

    Looks like that does what I want it to; we’ll have to mind the security warnings there so that someone can’t use this for evil. I got the plug-in installed OK but I’m having a bit of trouble configuring it to upload to the folder I want to put stuff in. I’m at work now… I’ll give it another stab tonight.

    Thread Starter wdln

    (@wdln)

    Were you able to get Uploadify working? I sunk a few hours in it and can’t figure it out. It looks like it’s uploading, but the file doesn’t go anywhere that I can find. I’ve tried the default location (which is wp-content/uploads) and both relative and absolute paths, to both pre-existing and new directories. I wonder if there’s a configuration issue on the server preventing the file from being saved.

    I got so far with it. I didn’t get it working as a properly installed wordpress plugin, but I was able to get it to upload files nonetheless.

    I installed it to the root of my web domain (as per their instructions) and I call it using raw PHP/SCRIPT from my WordPress page (using the rawhtml plugin).

    I’ve had to move onto something else for now, but I will come back to it.

    I did also initially have problems uploading the files, but that was down to a permissions issue on the sever. The upload directory needs to be owned by your webserver user (apache?), and needs to have 755 permissions.

    Sorry for the delay on this, but I got dragged off on another project for a while. FYI, I did indeed get uploadify working and it seems to do the trick nicely.

    It’s basically working as per my last post.

    If you are still having problems, PM me and I will show you how to access what I have done.

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