Hi @aasemoon,
Thank you for your feedback. We really appreciate it.
While it’s true that you can use htaccess rules to protect files, our PDA plugins offers much more features including the following advantages:
– Better performance – only protected files run through our scripts. As a result, our plugin will slow down your site’s performance compared to the normal htaccess rules
– Friendly UI to manage each file protection status
– Private download links that allow file sharing with certain groups of users
– Ease of use – protect individual files with a single click; multiple files via Bulk Actions
– Different permissions – set different file access permission for each file
Our PDA Lite/Free version does provide the same file protection method and UI as the Gold version.
It does exactly what we have advertised and described on WordPress. You only need our PDA Gold when you want more advanced features and unlimited files protection.
Anyway, can you please drop us an email to hello(at)preventdirectaccess.com with your use case?
We’ll see what we can do to help you.
We look forward to hearing from you.
