Chris Jean

<p><strong>WP Easy Uploader</strong> was created to make the life of WordPress bloggers easier by allowing an Administrator to add plugins, themes, and any type of file to WordPress directly from inside WordPress. You no longer have to load up an FTP client just to try out that latest plugin or to upload a text document for people to download.</p>
<h4>Current Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Upload any type of file to either the standard Uploads directory (just as images do when you are creating posts and pages) or to a path of your choosing.</li>
<li>Manual paths are automatically created if they don’t exist.</li>
<li>Easily upload plugins directly to the plugins directory and theme files directly to the themes directory.</li>
<li>You can select to have archives automatically extracted to their destination. This means that plugins and themes will be taken care of for you, but it also means that you can zip up a large set of files and upload them quickly into a folder on your site. Currently zip, tar, gz, tar.gz, tgz, and tar.bz2 archives are supported.</li>
<li>Options for overwriting existing files, renaming the fle if a file with that name already exists (or if overwriting fails), removal of the archive after file extraction, and forcing extracted files to be contained in a folder.</li>
<li>Now supports WordPress Mu.</li>
<li>Now supports internationalization. The PO file is available in the lang directory. Currently, Turkish (tr), mainland Chinese (zhCN), Brazilian Portuguese (ptBR), German (deDE), Indonesian (idID), and Spanish (esES) translations are available.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Note</h4>
<p>Many of the features offered by this plugin are now offered in the core of WordPress. For example, the latest versions of WordPress can now install plugins and themes from the admin interface. You can install plugins by going to <strong>Plugins > Add New</strong> and themes by going to <strong>Appearance > Add New Themes</strong>. Thus, this plugin may have limited added value for you.</p>
<p>This plugin is currently useful for doing the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Installing plugins and themes without downloading the files first and then having to upload them back to the server.</li>
<li>Uploading large batches of files easily by first zipping the files and then having <strong>WP Easy Uploader</strong> unzip them into the destination directory.</li>
<li>Load files to specific locations on your site when FTP may be restricted or blocked by the local network.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Planned Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customizable permissions to allow for users with privileges below Administrator to upload files. My idea is for Administrators to have full access to all the uploader’s functionality while people below Administrator won’t have access to upload themes, plugins, or to manual paths and won’t be able to overwrite files or extract archives.</li>
<li>If the above is implemented, I’d like to provide a menu of options for tailoring what minimum access level is required to access each function.</li>
<li>Also if the first item is implemented, I’d like to add logging in order to keep track of who uploaded what and when. This would be useful for keeping track of anyone (such as a contributor) who is using the file space inappropriately.</li>
<li>Track the uploaded files so that they can be removed later on. This is in response to how some people have permissions issues where their FTP/SSH user is different from the user that the webserver runs as.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>PHP 4+</li>
<li>WordPress 2.2+</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version History</h3>
<ul>
<li>1.0.1 – 2008-06-27 – Initial release version</li>
<li>1.0.2 – 2008-06-28 – Updated to support WordPress Mu</li>
<li>1.0.3 – 2008-06-30 – Added support for PHP 4</li>
<li>1.0.4 – 2008-07-02 – Fixed compatibility bug with the BackUpWordPress plugin</li>
<li>1.0.5 – 2008-07-02 – Internationalized the plugin. Now it’s ready for translators.</li>
<li>1.0.6 – 2008-07-06 – Added Turkish and Spanish translations. Fixed compatibility issue with the WeatherIcon plugin. Fixed parsing error with Windows servers.</li>
<li>1.0.7 – 2008-07-08 – Added mainland Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese translations. Added 2.6 support.</li>
<li>1.0.7a – 2008-07-10 – Added German translation.</li>
<li>1.0.7b – 2008-07-21 – Added Indonesian translation.</li>
<li>1.0.8 – 2008-09-27 – Added file required by PEAR in fringe cases.</li>
<li>1.0.8a – 2009-07-17 – Updated listed compatibility to WordPress version 2.8.1</li>
<li>1.0.9 – 2009-07-17 – WordPress no longer likes letters in versions, so here’s version 1.0.9. 🙂</li>
<li>1.0.10 – 2009-07-20 – Updated listed compatibility to WordPress version 2.8.2</li>
<li>1.0.11 – 2009-07-20 – readme.txt update</li>
</ul>
<h3>More Information</h3>
<p>For more information about this plugin and its development, visit the <a href="http://gaarai.com/wp-easy-uploader/" title="wp easy uploader home page" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Easy Uploader Home Page</a>.</p>


WP Easy Uploader

Easily upload any type of content without the need for FTP. You can even upload plugin and theme archives, and the files will be extracted for you.

Abhishek Ghosh

<p>FTP to Zip takes browser based FTP backup of WordPress plus other folders. Basically it uses PHP ZipArchive class ZipArchive(); which can not be used without shell access directly.</p>
<p>This Plugin is intended for the advanced users – either block the downloadable zip file via .htaccess or take an alternative measure. The Plugin is fail proof and is powerful, but usage must be judicial.</p>
<p>The first script checks and shows up your WordPress Installation root. Depending upon the size of your FTP content, it can taken few minutes to few hours to complete the process and will create a zip file on the root where the script is made to run. On the next screen, you will get the option to download it to your computer as well.</p>
<p>FTP to Zip works nicely on Rackspace Cloud Sites, it should work on any LAMP server (Server component are ? Linux Apache PHP MySQL) with good hardware backend.</p>
<h4>Advanced Usages</h4>
<p>‘backup.php’ is the important file. I have added comments for easy understanding. The important points are given here for reference :</p>
<h4>Specific Functions</h4>
<p>For the file ‘backup.php’ :</p>
<p>Line 23 : $sourcefolder is set to root. You can change it yourself.<br />
Line 25 : $timeout is the maximum php execution timeout. It sets ini_set(?max_execution_time?, $timeout); on Line 34.<br />
Line 24 : $zipfilename is the name of the backup zip as output. You can change it as you like. Calling another php function will give pretty name increasing the load (its quite logical).<br />
Line 38 : $zip = new ZipArchive(); is the main action we are doing with FTP to Zip.<br />
Line 71 to Line 88 : The PHP functions are wrapped inside h1 to show the page title as per the situation.</p>
<p>Here is detailed guide on <strong><a href="http://thecustomizewindows.com/ftp-to-zip/" rel="nofollow ugc">Official WebPage of FTP To Zip</a></strong> , Simplify the Backup of FTP Content.<br />
Your Feedback is valuable. This plugin will work even if you have lost access to login to WordPress or it is unsafe to login (in case your site is under attack).</p>
<p>At any issues, please check the plugin’s official support page at :</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://thecustomizewindows.com/ftp-to-zip/" rel="nofollow ugc">FTP To Zip</a></strong> official webpage.</p>
<p>Screen Shot Guided Tutorial :</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://thecustomizewindows.com/2012/07/wordpress-ftp-full-backup-backup-ftp-to-zip-file/" rel="nofollow ugc">How to use FTP To Zip</a></strong><br />
Support is free as well. Simplify Backup of FTP Content. FTP to Zip is available in GitHub and Google Projects as WordPress FTP Full Backup, if you are a developer and want it for usage for other CMS or want to add features, simply download and proceed.</p>


FTP to Zip

FTP to Zip takes browser based FTP backup of WordPress plus other folders. Proper error messages are shown if there is any defect in the installation.

WP Easy Uploader vs FTP to Zip