There are actually plans to develop it and part of it is already coded, but I don’t have the development time available yet to finish it indeed, unfortunately. But I will gladly inform you if it still makes it to a final standalone version!

- Floris

Hi! I thank. It seems an expectation of more users. It will be good news. Happy Holidays; Thanks

Thanks for your questions!

You can indeed configure the File Browser module so that is in the ‘List’ view by default (Layout settings) and doesn’t have any sharing actions available (File Manipulation settings) .

In the same module configuration you can also enable the ZIP functionality (Advanced settings) which allows you to select multiple files/folders at once for download. However, please note that the Google API doesn’t offer the possibility to zip files on the fly, unfortunately. So the files are downloaded one by one to the server where the zip file is created and send to the client side. This means that creating a ZIP with multiple large files, the download function can be quite slow.

I hope that answers your questions, and feel free to test the plugin on both Front-End and Back-End via the demo website in the link below.

- Floris

The WPForms integration allows your visitors to attach files to their form submission and store them directly on Google Drive.

If you want to add a Use-your-Drive module to a post created by a WPForms submission, you will need to hook into WPForms Post Submissions addon and modify the post content. Although I am not familiar with this addon, I can try to help you with code that allows you to do this. Feel free to create a support ticket via the link below, if you want to discuss the options .

- Floris

Thanks for your question! Yes, you can set the upload location to a subfolder in the users Private Folder via the module configuration:

In this example, the files will be uploaded in the folder named like /John/2021-11-09 10:00/file.jpg

- Floris

The plugin doesn’t have any integration with Adsense. But you can ofcourse still use something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-ads/ to add ads around the Use-your-Drive modules.

- Floris

(1) You can indeed embed single images or documents, but that functionality is limited as the plugin is designed to display complete folders via its modules (e.g. the Gallery module). (docs)

(2) Yes, Use-your-Drive integrates nicely into WooCommerce and it allows you to serve your Digital Downloads directly from Google Drive! (docs).

Feel free to fully test the plugin via https://demo.wpcloudplugins.com/ on both Front-End and Back-End to see if it fits your requirements.

- Floris

Thanks for your question.

If you simply embed the video without using the Use-your-Drive Media Player module, you will indeed have the same limits as when you embed a file via the Google Drive web interface. That is basically the same.

When you use the Use-your-Drive media player module, you will stream the content via the Drive API. The Drive API has a ‘Fair Use Policy’ for downloading and streaming content, which is higher than the embedded version. This means that you will not encounter any problems with normal usage. However, if you have high traffic volume on your site downloading and streaming files via the plugin, you can indeed encounter API/download limits. In that case Google will throttle the traffic.

If the content cannot be downloaded via Google servers (e.g. due to the file sharing permissions) the plugin will fallback to stream the content via your server.

If you are hitting the FUP of Google, you can switch to a different Cloud solution with clear limits. For instance, you could take a look at the Dropbox or Box solutions of the same plugin. For instance, Dropbox Free (Basic) has a limitation of 20 GB/day and the Pro & Business accounts have a limit of 200 GB/day.

I hope that answers your question.

- Floris

Thanks for your question. The plugin can indeed be uses to let your WordPress users upload and download files stored on Google Drive. However, this plugin cannot ‘create’ users in WordPress. The plugin hooks into the WordPress Users framework, so you can just use any WP User Management plugin to let your your visitors register/login/etc. I hope that answers your question!

Feel free to fully test the plugin via https://demo.wpcloudplugins.com/ on both Front-End and Back-End to see if it fits your requirements.

- Floris

I am not sure if I understand the question. The Project Timeline Google Document has the permission to be edited by anyone (it has the sharing permissions ‘Anyone with link can edit’). If the file doesn’t have that permission, users will not be able to edit the file.

- Floris

how to that permission, users will not be able to edit the file. because I can not find this

That is just the permission of the file in Google Drive itself. So you can remove this permission via (e.g.) the native Google Drive web interface.

- Floris

The plugin is linked with the complete Google Drive. You can set per module which folder should be used as ‘root’ folder, so user can only access the content in that folder.

If you don’t want to make the complete Google Drive accessible via the plugin, I always recommend to authorize the plugin with a second Google Drive account with which you share the folders that should only be accessible via your website. That will make sure that the content of the complete Drive never can be exposed!

Feel free to fully test the plugin via https://demo.wpcloudplugins.com/ on both Front-End and Back-End to see if it fits your requirements.

- Floris

Thanks for your question! Could you perhaps let me know what you mean with ‘infinite post scroll’? If it is a specific plugin, could you perhaps direct me to that with a link so I can test this for you?

- Floris

Hi! Infinite scroll on single post is available mostly in the popular wordpress newspaper themes in themeforest such as Flex Mag, Smart Mag, Digiqole, Bimber etc. It is said that the next posts with infinite scroll wont work because of javascript problem. I think this is the script that they are using > https://infinite-scroll.com. Thanks!

Thanks for the extra information. As the new content is likely loaded via AJAX, the plugins modules will not initiate when the main scripts aren’t loaded. I think that it should work when the plugins scripts are loaded on the page itself, and the plugin has a setting for that.

Feel free to create a support (presale) ticket via the link below if you want to test this.

- Floris

Editing a Google Document is only possible with editing sharing permission on the file. By default, the plugin will change the permissions automatically to set this sharing permission. But you can manually handle the permissions by disabling the ‘Manage Permission’ setting on the Advanced tab of the main plugin options page. However, I am not sure if Google will actually show a login window if you access an ‘Edit’ page of the Google Document, or that it will just show a read-only version of the document instead.

- Floris

Hi Floris,

I have another pre-sale question. How are we able to move files and folders across different linked accounts using this plugin? Does this require authorization from the accounts? Please clarify.

Thanks already

Like in the native Google Drive web interface, It isn’t possible to move files/folders between different Google Drive accounts. Due to technical limitations, this kind of actions can only take place on the same Google Drive account.

- Floris

1) It is possible to add descriptions to the files on Google Drive when that is enabled in the module configuration. Adding comments to files themselves isn’t possible, but you can enable comments for your Google Documents.

2) It isn’t possible to show the ‘Owner’ or ‘Last Edited By’ field of your Google Drive file as the plugin doesn’t store/process this information. So you basically need to modify the core files of the plugin to get this data showing up in the File Browser module.

However, I will take this suggestion on board for future versions. I understand why it can be use full to display this field in (e.g.) an intranet environment where the files are also modified by users with access to the Google Drive file, so I will try to implement this in the future.

I hope this answers your questions!

- Floris

how to show a table of contents (files indexing)

You can only display the files via one of the plugin modules, like the File Browser module. By default it will use the Thumbnail View, but you can also change it to a List view in the configuration of the module.

- Floris

Thanks for your question!

The Use-your-Drive modules are as secure as possible to prevent any unauthorized access & actions. The plugin is now around for ~8 years, and there has not been a security breach or vulnerability found in the plugin modules. So, as far as we currently know, it isn’t possible to gain access to folders on Google Drive which are not made available via the modules or to perform actions without valid permissions.

However, you will need authorize the plugin to be able to access your Google Drive account. This authorization is saved in a token file that is stored (encrypted) on your server. This token give read/write access to the complete Google Drive. If an hacker gains access to your WordPress installation (perhaps via another plugin or via your server) even Use-your-Drive isn’t safe. The access token of the Google Drive account can then be obtained and can be used to access all data on your Google Drive. Please be aware of this. That means that if you are working with confidential data, this plugin probably isn’t what you are looking for.

If you don’t want to make the complete Google Drive accessible via the plugin, I always recommend to authorize the plugin with a second Google Drive account with which you share the folders that should only be accessible via your website. That will make sure that the content of the complete Drive never can be exposed!

I hope this answers your question! If you have any further question, just let me know.

- Floris

Thanks for your questions! Let me try to answer them for you:

1. You can use the ‘Private Folders’ feature of the plugin to give each uploader their own folder in the upload location. If you use one of the Form integrations of the plugin, you can use the value of the form fields to name the upload folder as well. (docs)
2. You can disable the ‘Download’ action via the Permissions tab of the module/shortcode builder. You can basically set for each module if it can be used to download files/folders or not. (docs)
3. The Gallery module currently only support image files. Video files can only be displayed via the File Browser module or the Video Player module.

I hope this answers your questions! Feel free to fully test the plugin via https://demo.wpcloudplugins.com/ on both Front-End and Back-End to see if it fits your requirements. If you have any further questions, just let me know!

- Floris

We can still see the filenames when we hover, can you also guide us how to get rid of that? Thanks!

That isn’t something I can reproduce over here. You can try:

display: none !important;

If that doesn’t help, feel free to create a support ticket via the link below so I can have a closer look at it.

- Floris

Thanks!

Thanks for your report and for the long wait, wiL! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to respond earlier due to my holiday.

I have received your support ticket about this issue and I will look into this today or tomorrow. I will get back to you when I have more information!

- Floris

That sound like a great suggestion! I will try to implement this in one of the next updates.

- Floris

Thanks for your question. Only files uploaded via the Upload Box module of the Use-your-Drive plugin will be stored on Google Drive. So it will not auto save uploads in a post on Google Drive, unfortunately.

- Floris