A File & Folder Viewer for FTP folders, enabling the display of library contents (folders & files) on the front-end.
As of April 2026, Library Viewer is a WordPress ftp plugin with 400 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: File Manager.
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With Library Viewer, you can display the containing files and the containing folders of a “specific folder” of your (FTP) server to your users in the front-end.
The significant difference from other similar plugins is that:
1. You can allow users to view that the files exist, but cannot open them if they are not logged in (or if they are not administrators, or authors etc…).
2. You can allow users to view files in a custom viewer or redirect them through a RESTful web service of your choice(examples exists below).
For this plugin (the free version), the “specific folder” is the folder
“library” of your httpdocs(yoursite.com/library).
If you want to display other fol…
| WordPress | 3.0.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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