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Oh, PLEASE do, that would be perfect. Consider us camped out in front of the store waiting in line, as I’m quite pleased with this plugin.
One other thing that would be helpful is a datepicker menu selector to take people directly to a particular date (for dated galleries, such as ours and other event photography), much like the archive calender, based on the publish date, which we adjust to match the photo date.
It really is obvious how much thought has gone into making this intuitive. Can’t wait to show this new site to our colleagues who are also at their wit’s end with their thirdparty “solution”. I will have your download URL ready for them haha! Thanks again.
Has this type of solution (global secure URL instead of setting each individually) ever been worked into the plugin, or are there plans for it at some point? This plugin is absolutely perfect for us except for this issue.
We are motorsport event photographers and have been using a thirdparty solution that has proven woefully overwhelmed by the sheer number of images we process daily. Our average shoot rate is 5000 images PER DAY to be uploaded, processed, databased and rendered. We sell extremely high resolution photographs, so we have a ‘mid-sized’ version that is uploaded to the gallery. The originals are elsewhere on the server.
Recently we have had to fulfill orders manually and that is simply not feasible without adding staff, so an auto, yet secure, solution is essential. Obviously, we aren’t the only ones with this problem.
Wouldn’t it make sense to add a field for the ‘secure directory’ path in one of the screens, perhaps the template creation, where this is an option and can be set once and then automatically prepends to the URL? Or better yet, is called as a separate field so that it can be changed as necessary, and then the download URL generates on the fly based on this field?
The ‘WP_ESTORE_ENABLE_ADVANCED_NGG_FILE_SERVE’ hack in the link above doesn’t really make the image any more secure than just sticking it in the gallery directory to begin with, plus it renames the original image and that screws up scripts running elsewhere.
I guess my point is to please request that you consider a field for ‘secure path’ or whatever and use that as a setting input option to generate the (far more secure) download.
Other than that, I am totally blown away with the functionality and usefulness of this plugin. It is, without a doubt, the best money I have ever spent on app tools, and I was an app developer in a previous life, so that’s saying something!
