How I Secured WordPress Media Files by Building My Own Upload Restriction Plugin

How I Secured WordPress Media Files by Building My Own Upload Restriction Plugin Security is one of those things you don't think about deeply until something breaks badly. For me, that moment came while managing multiple high-traffic WordPress websites. Sites that were running fine — until they weren't. Slowing down. Getting unstable. Eventually crashing. The culprit? Unrestricted file uploads. The Problem — What Was Actually Happening WordPress is flexible by nature. And that flexibility, if le