File Manager Pro – Filester

Filester is a WP File Manager Pro plugin, but you can download and use it completely for free. It comes with all the premium features of other WordPress advanced file manager plugins out there.

Filester helps you manage WordPress configuration files, while FileBird allows you to manage/upload/download media library folders.

With Filester – File Manager Pro, you can copy, paste, create an archive, download, upload, edit, delete, preview, duplicate, and get info of the WordPress configuration and directory files without FTP access.

This file manager plugin is dedicated to boosting your productivity in managing WordPress. All necessary file operations are fully provided and tested on a variety of servers and browsers.

Another thing you will appreciate about it is the clean and compact UI/UX, which makes editing and transferring directory files and folders extra fast.

Did you know?
More than 700,000 WordPress websites were attacked during September 2020.
Malicious bots are looking to exploit vulnerable versions of WP file manager plugins.
Fortunately, Filester comes with this vulnerability fixed!
Filester poses no risk to you, so rest assured! 🤗

⚡️ FEATURES

• Drag & drop interface: Easily move and arrange files
• Smart context menu: Right-click on any files to make operations
• Manage files and folders: Copy, move, upload, create folder/file, rename, duplicate, etc.
• Built-in advanced code editor: Integrated development environment ACE Editor, CodeMirror, CKEditor, TinyMCE, and others
• Flexible configuration: Access rights, uploadable file types/extensions, maximum file size limit, and more
• Create/extract archives: .zip, .rar, .xz, .tar, .gzip
• Great UI/UX design: Clean, high-quality & productivity-driven
• User authority settings: File extensions to be locked, file visibility, root path access, .htaccess file
• Edit media files: Using Photopea & TUI Image Editor
• Multiple languages supported: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, etc.
• RTL supported: Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, etc.

🙌 OTHER FEATURES

• Local file system
• Simple client-server API based on JSON
• List and icon view
• Multi-root support
• Hidden files/folders options
• Set hidden files for other users
• Root path for each user role
• Easy to navigate
• 6 themes for your preferred interface

🔑 HOW IT WORKS

Filester plugin helps you easily manage WordPress files so that you don’t have to access directories via FTP or cPanel.

This plugin creates a new menu File Manager in your WordPress dashboard. From then on, you can view all server files, configuration, and media files on your current WordPress website.

You can edit, copy, upload/download files/folders to your server from File Manager section. This toolbar is similar to the settings in an FTP client. It allows you to preview, edit, upload, download, duplicate and delete files or folders.

With Filester, it’s easy to modify the auto-update mechanism with each new version of WordPress. You can quickly search for specific text or code within your WordPress files and replace it efficiently.

With built-in code editors, you can edit code files with syntax highlighting and code completion features for themes, plugins, and custom code snippets. It takes one click to download a plugin’s ZIP file to your local storage. It helps track changes made to files and revert to previous versions if needed.

All webmasters can also download WordPress media library using Filester download options as well.

🎏 COMPATIBILITY

Filester works seamlessly with all major WordPress themes, page builders, and website builders.

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CREDIT

Big thanks to elFinder – open-source file manager for web.

Manual installation is easy and takes less than one minute.

1. Download the plugin from wordpress.org, unpack it and upload the [Filester] folder to your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins‘ menu in WordPress.
3. Go to your main WordPress menu > File Manager to use.

You’re done. Enjoy.

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   Filester general settings

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   Filester user role restriction settings

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Oct 29, 2025 – Version 2.0.1

• Fixed: Display notice
• Fixed: Miss Themes folder

Sep 12, 2025 – Version 2.0

• Updated: Elfinder library ver 2.1.66
• Added: Icon Refresh folder

Jun 28, 2025 – Version 1.9

• Fixed: Authenticated (Subscriber+) Directory Traversal to Arbitrary File Deletion

Jun 11, 2025 – Version 1.8.9

• Fixed: Patchstack security report

May 15, 2025 – Version 1.8.8

• Improved: Prevent abuse via modified .htaccess file
• Fixed: A vulnerability due to missing file type validation

Dec 17, 2024 – Version 1.8.7

• Fixed: Security (CVE ID: CVE-2024-8066)

Nov 25, 2024 – Version 1.8.6

• Fixed: Security

Nov 12, 2024 – Version 1.8.5

• Fixed: Security

Aug 7, 2024 – Version 1.8.4

• Fixed: Plugin missing .js / 403 error query

Aug 1, 2024 – Version 1.8.3

• Fixed: Unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check

Dec 18, 2023 – Version 1.8.2

• Updated: Elfinder library to version 2.1.62

Sep 12, 2023 – Version 1.8.1

• Fixed: Security for multisite

Sep 8, 2023 – Version 1.8

• Fixed: Security issue

Jun 27, 2022 – Version 1.7.6

• Added: Recommend plugins

Jun 20, 2022 – Version 1.7.5

• Added: Recommend plugins

Dec 2, 2021 – Version 1.7.4

• Fixed: Conflict with plugin Nested Pages

Jul 8, 2021 – Version 1.7.3

• Fixed: User role restrictions
• Fixed: Image notification

Mar 25, 2021 – Version 1.7.2

• Fixed: Small bug

Mar 25, 2021 – Version 1.7.1

• Fixed: Small bug

Mar 25, 2021 – Version 1.7

• Improved: UI
• Fixed: Small bug

Mar 15, 2021 – Version 1.6.1

• Fixed: Small bug

Feb 3, 2021 – Version 1.6

• Added: MIME type logic for user roles
• Added: URL field
• Fixed: Image and PDF preview
• Fixed: Some small bugs

Jan 11, 2021 – Version 1.5.2

• Added: MIME type support for .xlsb and .xlsm files
• Fixed: Compatibility with older WordPress versions
• Fixed: CSV file upload

Dec 17, 2020 – Version 1.5.1

• Updated: jQuery UI to latest version

Dec 10, 2020 – Version 1.5

• Updated: Elfinder to latest version
• Improved: Compatibility with WordPress 5.6

Aug 7, 2020 – Version 1.4.1

• Fixed: Display issue in WordPress multisite menu
• Fixed: Windows 10 theme not working on Linux servers

Jul 2, 2020 – Version 1.4

• Improved: Double-click to open or preview file
• Fixed: Some small bugs

Jun 24, 2020 – Version 1.3

• Improved: Icon styling
• Fixed: Language selection
• Fixed: Private CSS/JS handling
• Fixed: Some small bugs

Jun 16, 2020 – Version 1.2

• Fixed: Trash issue
• Fixed: Some small bugs

May 29, 2020 – Version 1.1

• Fixed: Some small bugs
• Improved: UI

May 8, 2020 – Version 1.0

• Initial release