Sherpa Managed Documents

Sherpa Managed Documents provides a dedicated administration area for documents that need a permanent public URL.

Administrators and authorised users can add an existing Media Library document or upload a new managed document. Replacement versions are published in place, retaining the attachment ID, uploads path, permanent filename and public URL.

Features include:

• Permanent document URLs that remain unchanged when new versions are published.
• Readable document names that are separate from physical filenames.
• Searchable, sortable and filterable Media Library selection.
• Document version numbers and replacement history.
• Optional private storage of previous files for rollback.
• Separate user permissions for document management and version restoration.
• A Copy URL control for adding managed-document links to pages, posts and emails.
• Optional LiteSpeed Cache URL purging after replacement.

The plugin supports non-image files stored in the local WordPress uploads directory. Replacement files must use the same extension as the current document.

Created by Sherpa Digital.

Important behaviour

• Version 1.1 supports non-image attachments.
• Stable URL replacements require the same extension as the existing file.
• The plugin does not add MIME types that WordPress does not already allow.
• Local WordPress uploads are supported. Media offload systems require a provider-specific adapter.
• LiteSpeed single-URL cache purging is requested when its public hook is available.
• Other integrations can listen to sdfr_file_replaced.