Title: Third-partes’ plugins support
Last modified: April 5, 2022

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# Third-partes’ plugins support

 *  Resolved [oanishchik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oanishchik/)
 * (@oanishchik)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/third-partes-plugins-support/)
 * As I understand, your plugin does not support validation for Drag and Drop Multiple
   File Upload — Contact Form 7, i.e. I can’t make a group to show (or not to) depending
   on the presence (or absence) of files attached via that plugin (it uses a distinctive‘
   mfile’ tag). Is it a chance to make it work? Probably by adding some function
   to fuctions.php? If it’s not possible, is there a chance for the support of that
   plugin to be added to yours later?
    Best,

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 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/third-partes-plugins-support/#post-15529137)
 * No, the plugins aren’t compatible. But did you know that you can also drag files
   to a regular files upload? It will work without any additional plugins installed.
 * You can style the file field with some CSS so it looks like an actual drop area.
   Check [https://css-tricks.com/drag-and-drop-file-uploading/](https://css-tricks.com/drag-and-drop-file-uploading/).
 * If you want to upload multiple files, you will need the multifile control, which
   is available in conditional fields PRO: [https://conditional-fields-cf7.bdwm.be/multifile/](https://conditional-fields-cf7.bdwm.be/multifile/)
 *  Thread Starter [oanishchik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oanishchik/)
 * (@oanishchik)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/third-partes-plugins-support/#post-15529217)
 * Yes, I do know. The specific of the plugin I mentioned is that – unlike CF7 and
   yours – it allows not to attach uploaded files to an email, but just provide 
   a recipient (site admin) with a link for downloading them, that resolves many
   potential issues with emails burdened, sometimes, by many different heavy files
   with large names and at the same time gives an ability to receive much more than
   a couple of dosens MB of files, email services capable to work with (and I’m 
   especially interested in this possibility). So, if there is a chance to resolve
   the issue, that would be great!
 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/third-partes-plugins-support/#post-15529343)
 * How so? I thought you can simply include the file field name in your email message
   and it will output the link for you to download, no?
 *  Thread Starter [oanishchik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oanishchik/)
 * (@oanishchik)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/third-partes-plugins-support/#post-15529561)
 * I can’t confirm that this is the way of working either CF7 or your plugin. When
   I add a file-field name (smth like [file-000] for CF7 or [multifile-000] for 
   your plugin) to the email body, I just get a name of the file only, not a link
   to download it. Moreover, if I check an upload directory of my site, I would 
   not find any files uploaded by the site visitor. As I understand, with these 
   plugins that is exactly what should be expected. That’s what we see on the CF7
   official site: ‘Contact Form 7 moves the uploaded file to a temporary folder.
   At this point, Contact Form 7 attaches the file to the mail and sends it. After
   these procedures, Contact Form 7 then removes the file from the temporary folder.’
 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/third-partes-plugins-support/#post-15532123)
 * You’re right, seems like the files are indeed deleted by default.
 * I think you could circumvent this by hooking into the `'wpcf7_before_send_mail'`
   filter, and move the uploaded files to your own super secret folder. It’s crucial
   that you keep this secret because otherwise all files your users upload will 
   be up for grabs.
 * Something like this should work (untested):
 *     ```
       add_action('wpcf7_before_send_mail', function($form, $abort, $submission) {
         if(isset($_FILES) && count($_FILES)) {
           foreach($_FILES as $file) { 
             move_uploaded_file($file['tmp_name'], '/super-secret-path/'.$file['name']);
           }
         }
       }, 10, 3);
       ```
   
 * You might want to add some extra checks and sanitisation.

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