One of the problems with using a news style theme is that you constantly have to upload files for lead stories, etc. If you aren’t always on a machine with a full fledged blog client or possibly suffer from firewall restrictions like I do, you need to be able to upload your images through the web.
After a failed attempt at writing a quick and dirty script to accomplish this task, I decided to browse the WordPress Plug-in library and I came across WP Easy Uploader. It installed in seconds and worked flawlessly on the first try.
It’s a simple tool. Once installed, on your dashboard go to Tools > Upload Files.
From here you can upload files from either a web reference or directly from your file system. You can upload to the default WordPress upload folder, directly to your plug-in folder or into a theme folder. These two also benefit from automatic extraction of zip files. You can also use a manual path, which is what I used to solve my problem. Remember to point your slashes / or you will get some weird folders in your WP root with \\ and \\\ between the elements. Other than that you can have it automatically overwrite files, rename if it already exists, remove the archive after an extraction or force files not in a folder to be extracted into a folder.
Pretty complete feature set and a plug-in that I would say is a must have for any WordPress site operator. You can find the plug-in in the auto install tool or visit the author’s site.
Enjoy!
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Thanks for the review of my plugin Jason.
Due to the latest versions of WordPress having built-in plugin installation capabilities, I’ve seen some question whether my plugin still has value. I’m glad to see that you’re able to make good use of it still.
No thank you Chris, I think anyone who runs a fairly active blog, especially one with a news type theme is constantly having to use FTP to maintain their blog, this is a huge time saver for me and I have literally used it every day since it was installed.
Hi there! I actually stumbled upon this plugin.
Whenever I upload a zip file as a theme, it gives me Extraction failed: Unable to write to file (filename here). Do you have any solutions to that? Thanks.
Hi Anna. I sent you an email about your issue.