Private Media Plugin Updates

Hi Alexandre, I like your Private Media plugin a lot and would like to provide code updates and bug fixes. This plugin was not updated during the last 4 years and there are some issues with PHP 8.x. I saw you created an empty GitHub repository at https://github.com/froger-me/private-media . Could you please upload your code there to make it easier to provide pull requests. Having access to the full build system would also be great. First there is a fatal error in class-private-media-request-handler.php: Fatal error : Uncaught Error: header(): Argument #3 ($response_code) must be of type int, string given in /…/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1471 status_header() wp-content/plugins/private-media/inc/class-private-media-request-handler.php:155 Where the following line fails: status_header( $status ); Your code always uses a string for $status. The workaround for now is: status_header( intval( $status ) ); With this change the plugin runs fine again. I would like to add the following changes: Upload private content right away: currently files have to be uploaded, edited and to be changed to private (hotlinking prevention or access roles). This could be activated by a hook. In our case it depends on the upload location. Rename “Prevent hotlinks (even when not limited by role)” this should be named “Always private (prevent hotlinking)”. Other than that I could not find any WordPress incompatibilities.