Front-end file uploads for WordPress

Questions answered by Iptanus and other users.

1. 

   Dan

   January 16, 2021 at 3:31 am

   Hi there! Quick question for you and hopefully you came across this before. Any emails that are sent out to yahoo, gmail, windows, mac, anything like that, the hyperlink works great for the download file.

   When I view the email in outlook, the link is not a hyperlink, but plain text. I looked up online and noticed a few people said when links aren’t turned into links in outlook, it’s because there wasn’t a carriage return after the url to turn it into a link. I don’t know if this is possible with this plugin? Right now the file url line looks like this.

   %fileurl%%n%

   I believe %n% means new line? Is there anyway for me to change that to be an actual carriage return? Or any other trick I could use? My client uses outlook 365 so they would like the link clickable in outlook as well. Thanks!

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   1. 

      Nickolas

      January 16, 2021 at 9:49 am

      Hi Dan, %n% will be converted by the plugin into a line feed (LF), not a carriage return (CR). You can try the following:

      Put the following hook in functions.php file of your theme:

      if (!function_exists('wfu_before_email_notification_handler')) {
function wfu_before_email_notification_handler($changable_data, $additional_data) {
$changable_data["message"] = str_replace('%rn%', "\r\n", $changable_data["message"]);
return $changable_data;
}
add_filter('wfu_before_email_notification', 'wfu_before_email_notification_handler', 10, 2);
}

      Use variable %rn% instead of %n% after the file url, e.g. %fileurl%%rn%. This will generate a CRLF after the url. This might work in Outlook, otherwise there is another way.

      Nickolas

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      1. 

         Dan

         January 16, 2021 at 2:30 pm

         Thank you very much for getting back to me! I placed the code in the functions file, and change the fileurl to have %rn% instead of %n%, and this is what is does in the email when sent.

         /uploaded-files/Test2(11).pdf%rn%

         Looks like the str_replace isn’t working.

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         1. 

            Nickolas

            January 16, 2021 at 3:24 pm

            Do you have the Free or Pro version?

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            1. 

               Dan

               January 17, 2021 at 2:28 pm

               We actually have the pro version. I create a test page and stripped out most of the items in the shortcode and looks like still not replacing the rn with a carriage return. Here is a copy of that code. I stripped out the email name so people would not spam it 🙂

               Here is the code I put in the functions.php file.

               /* Allow file uploads using wordpress upload plugin to use a carriage return for creating hyperlinks in outlook/yahoo */

               if (!function_exists(‘wfu_before_email_notification_handler’)) {
               function wfu_before_email_notification_handler($changable_data, $additional_data) {
               $changable_data[“message”] = str_replace(‘%rn%’, “\r\n”, $changable_data[“message”]);
               return $changable_data;
               }
               add_filter(‘wfu_before_email_notification’, ‘wfu_before_email_notification_handler’, 10, 2);
               }

               And here is test file upload shortcode.

               [wordpress_file_upload notify=”true” notifyrecipients=”XXXXX@outlook.com” notifyheaders=”Content-type: text/html” notifymessage=”Dear Recipient,%n%%n% This is an automatic delivery message to notify you that a new file has been uploaded.%n%%n%Best Regards%n%%n%%fileurl%%rn%”]

               And here is what the email looks like.

               Dear Recipient, This is an automatic delivery message to notify you that a new file has been uploaded. Best Regards https://seaboardgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/Test2.pdf%rn%

               Thank you so much for taking some of your valuable time to look at this. Much appreciated.
            2. 

               Dan

               January 17, 2021 at 2:30 pm

               Also notice even though the link is messed up with the %rn% at the end, the site did in fact still turn it into a hyperlink. Outlook/Yahoo won’t though. Just text, hmm.
2. 

   WP Developer

   January 22, 2021 at 12:26 pm

   Is there an Encryption option to encrypt uploaded files?

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   1. 

      Nickolas

      January 22, 2021 at 4:22 pm

      Hi, there isn’t. However, some time ago I had done an implementation of PGP encryption on the uploaded files.

      Regards

      Nickolas

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3. 

   Bernardelli Daniele Giovanni

   January 27, 2021 at 5:47 pm

   Hi, is it possible to constrain the availability of uploading a file after payment via PayPal or credit card of a user ? if yes how can I do ?
   Regards
   Daniele

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   1. 

      Nickolas

      January 27, 2021 at 6:22 pm

      Hi, maybe yes, provided that this information (whether the user has paid) is kept somewhere in user’s metadata. What plugin do you use for payment?

      Regards

      Nickolas

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