About this plugin
FileDroppr turns your PDFs into secure, trackable share links – and shows you who actually read them, right inside wp-admin. Instead of emailing an attachment or dropping a file on a page and hoping, you get a clean link and a readership report: who opened it, how far they read, how long they spent, and whether they came back.
It is built for anyone who publishes documents meant to do a job – lead magnets, whitepapers, price lists, proposals, reports, course material, media kits – and wants to know how they land.
What you can do
- Upload a PDF from the FileDroppr admin and get a secure, trackable share link in seconds.
- See all your files with view counts and expiry at a glance, and open the full readership report for any document in one click.
- Read page-by-page analytics: a read-through funnel, time per page, returning readers, and reader country – without storing visitor IP addresses.
- Keep an eye on recent activity from your main dashboard with the “Recent reads” widget (file, reader country, pages read, when).
- Embed a tracked document anywhere with the [filedroppr uuid="..."] shortcode – block editor, classic editor, or widgets.
- Generate a QR code for any link and download it as a PNG.
Privacy-first by design
FileDroppr measures readership without storing visitor IP addresses – readers are pseudonymous, so you get returning-reader detection and engagement without holding personal data you would rather not be responsible for. Password protection, an email-capture gate, link expiry, and AES-256 encrypted storage are available depending on your FileDroppr plan.
com). com); PDFs you share are uploaded to your FileDroppr account over HTTPS.
External services
com), the external service it depends on to store and share your PDFs and to report readership analytics. A free FileDroppr account and an API key are required.
The plugin sends data to FileDroppr over HTTPS only when you actively use it:
- When you upload a PDF (FileDroppr -> Files), that PDF file is sent to your FileDroppr account to create a secure, trackable share link.
- When you view your files, a file’s analytics, or the “Recent reads” dashboard widget, the plugin sends authenticated requests to read that data.
- When you open a file’s QR code, the plugin requests the QR image for that file.
Every request includes your FileDroppr API key as a bearer token. Nothing is sent until you take one of the actions above, and the plugin contacts no other external service.
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