Title: Can users upload?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Can users upload?

 *  [kihon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kihon/)
 * (@kihon)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-users-upload/)
 * I have installed this gallery and have it working good. But, I’d like to allow
   for people to upload images as a user/reader of my blog. Can this be done?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/)

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 *  [harknell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harknell/)
 * (@harknell)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-users-upload/#post-685356)
 * I’m not sure about that gallery, but theoretically you could do something like
   this in a fashion if you used the [AWSOM Pixgallery](http://www.awsom.org/awsom-pixgallery/)
   plugin and set a folder to allow anonymous FTP access. Then anyone could upload
   images to the folder that would be automatically added to and displayed in a 
   gallery that was set to view this folder.
 * However, I would caution you about allowing anyone to be able to upload images
   directly to your site. The best solution is to have people simply email you an
   image which you could then approve and add to a gallery yourself. Yes, it’s more
   work, but it lowers the possibility of someone uploading a malicious file to 
   your server (like a virus file) and causing your users and your site to get infected.

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