Wordpress File Upload app

[LondonManc]

I'm currently putting the finishing touches to a Wordpress site that I converted from Joomla. The one piece of functionality that I'm having trouble replacing is to find a good file upload utility. The requirements:
A user should have the ability to upload multiple files (all small in size, static text)
A user must be signed in to upload and will have their own allocated directory/folder that I've set up in the backend (i.e. mysite.co.uk/theirfolder)

I've had a read through various plugins but none seem to obviously fit the bill in the way that the joomla plugin did - that could be down to my noobiness with Wordpress rather than the plugin itself though. I also don't want to pay for it - while that sounds a bit meh, the Joomla plugin was free.

[RonBW]

For security reasons, you're unlikely to find anything that allows an upload to anywhere on the server outside the standard WP folder structure.

Looking at https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-upload that would allow you to upload into wp-contents/<a directory> but I don't know whether it allows different upload paths within that directory. It looks like it probably would - there is an attribute you can set in the shortcode, and some code in their support pages that might do it - but I've not looked at exactly what it can do.

[LondonManc]

That was one that I've looked at; I guess install, activate and have a play with it is the best idea.

[RonBW]

For security reasons, you're unlikely to find anything that allows an upload to anywhere on the server outside the standard WP folder structure.

Looking at https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-upload that would allow you to upload into wp-contents/<a directory> but I don't know whether it allows different upload paths within that directory. It looks like it probably would - there is an attribute you can set in the shortcode, and some code in their support pages that might do it - but I've not looked at exactly what it can do.

At first glance, there are no configuration options - you have to create an instance and then you get to configure each one after that and it will generate the shortcode for you.

There is an option to create a new directory as required (so it would auto create one for you for the users in wp-contents), and there is a checkbox to prevent guests from seeing it at all.

So you could set the shortcode to [wordpress_file_upload uploadpath="%username%" uploadrole="all" createpath="true"] and that will give you a file upload box, available to all users (but no guests), creating a new folder as necessary for them.

So my file has just appeared in my "wp-contents/Ron" folder which it created on the fly for me.