=== Customer Area ===
Contributors: vprat, marvinlabs
Tags: private files,client area,customer area,user files,secure area,crm
Requires at least: 3.5
Tested up to: 3.6
Stable tag: 1.0.2
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Give your customers a page on your site where they can access private content (files, notices, ...). 

== Description ==

Give your customers a page on your site where they can access private content in a secure and easy way. 
As of today, private content means files: you upload files for your customer, and only him will be able to view them
or download them on his page. We will soon extend the plugin to allow for more content type: notices, ...

**Current features**

* Secure customer area, accessible to logged-in users
* Private files, that can be assigned to a particular user and will get listed in its customer area
* Comments on private files: the customer/user can send some feedback/observations about it
* If necessary, you can customize most of the plugin pieces by making your own template files
 
**Coming soon**

* Customize the plugin output using themes
* Email notifications
* More private content type (messages/...)

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== Upgrade Notice ==

Nothing worth mentionning yet. 

== Installation ==

1. Nothing special, just upload the files, activate and you can then visit the settings page if you want. Like any 
other plugin
1. You need then to create a page and insert the [customer-area] shortcode. Your customers will be able to access their
private content on that page.
1. Finally, you will need to create content for the users (!): you can start with a private file for instance. Just 
check out the WordPress menu in your administration panel, you can add new customer files just like any post. Simply 
upload a file (below the content box), set the owner of that file, publish, and your customer should be able to see it.  

== Screenshots ==

Coming soon.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How can I forbid direct download of user files? =

If someone knows the URL of a particular user file, he can download it without restriction. You can however secure this
by copying the file "protect-downloads.htaccess" included in our plugin's extras folder to the plugin's upload folder
(it should be /wp-content/customer-area). Then you will need to rename that file ".htaccess" so that your server takes
it into account.

= That feature is missing, will you implement it? =

Open a new topic on the plugin's support forum, I will consider every feature request and all ideas are welcome.

= I implemented something, could you integrate it in the plugin? =

Contributions are welcome. Additionally, if you wish to participate to development, you can send us an email 
([check-out our website](http://www.marvinlabs.com)) and tell us a little bit about you (specially, send us a link to 
your wordpress.org profile with your other developed plugins.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.2 (2013/05/03) =

* Fixed a bug in the permalinks preventing the file downloads
* Added download count 
* Added support for comments on private files

= 1.0.1 (2013/05/02) =

* Improved settings page
* Fixed a bug in the frontend 

= 1.0.0 (2013/04/25) =

* First plugin release
* Upload private files for your customer