Joe Mitchell

So putting the files I don’t want the bots to find in the s2Members plugin directory will preclude the bots for finding them?

I looked around for an answer to the below two questions but couldn’t find an answer.

Do I have to manually upload files using something like filezilla to the special s2Member files directory?

And once the files are in the s2Member directory is there an easy way to link to them of is it primarily a manual intensive effort?

Thanks again. . . . .

Thanks for the quick reply.

I think I may be gaining an understanding. If you restrict a page or post it is restricted from the public. If you upload a file/picture/etc. to the standard wp upload file area, then link to that file/picture/etc. from a restricted post/page, the file is still accessible from bots looking around in the database which is still not “protected”. Therefore, upload files/pictures/etc. that you want restricted to the special s2Member directory then link your restricted page/post to that file.

Thanks load–I’ve got a lot of re-uploading to do ! ! ! !

Sorry for the delay in getting back to this. I have discovered even more areas where access to what I thought was protected information is available to anyone just by doing a search on Google. These “protected” pages are .pdf files that are in the web sites database. The .pdf files are usually linked to from a page or post that is “protected”. It appears that the bot search engine is going directly to the database and indexing files that are uploaded to the wp-contents/uploads/ directory.