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Cloudy File Manager — Safe Access in wp-admin
A file manager runs inside somebody else’s WordPress, alongside plugins we have never seen, and hands users the filesystem. It has to work everywhere and it must not become the way in.
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Australian-based team
Senior developers only
Fixed quote before we start
10k+
Files handled per install
v1.11
Shipped and maintained
WP 5.6+
Compatibility floor
WordPress
PHP 7.4+
Australian team
Based here, working your hours — not a timezone away
144+ projects delivered
Over 10+ years building and maintaining sites for Australian businesses
One developer, start to finish
The same person every time — no re-explaining your site
Straight answers, on your terms
We only take work we can finish. Ask us anything first — no obligation
The challenge
- It installs into WordPress sites with unknown themes and plugin stacks — conflicts cannot be debugged after the fact on someone else’s production site.
- File management is inherently dangerous functionality: read, write, move and delete on the server.
- Large file uploads run straight into PHP execution and memory limits that vary by host.
- Bulk operations across thousands of files cannot block the request or exhaust memory.
What we did
- Every destructive operation is gated behind WordPress capability checks and nonce verification, with input sanitised at the boundary.
- Resumable uploads so large files survive a dropped connection or a host’s execution limit rather than restarting.
- HTTP Range downloads so large files stream instead of being loaded into memory.
- Copy, move and delete operations are queued rather than run inline, so bulk work across 10,000+ files does not time out.
- Directory scanning to locate files across a large tree, plus zip compress and extract in place.
- Syntax-highlighted code editing for the cases where the reason you opened a file manager was to fix one line.
- Tested across multiple live WordPress installations to catch conflicts before release, not after.
The outcome
- Shipped and maintained at v1.11.0, supporting WordPress 5.6+ and PHP 7.4+.
- Handles installations with 10,000+ files without blocking or timing out.
- Capability-gated and nonce-verified throughout.
- Actively maintained — released, supported and updated by us.
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