Wise-FTP 3

FTP clients don’t exactly make headlines any more, but they are still essential applications for just about everyone who needs to manage a website, and Wise-FTP is one of the best.

The program makes it easy to enter all the details of your FTP connection: host name, login details, connection type, proxy settings and more. You can enter the details for as many sites as you need via the built-in Site Manager, then organize them with your own folder structure.

Once connected, Wise-FTP has one pane for showing your hard drive, and another for the remote FTP server. File transfer is easy, just drag and drop the files from one pane to the other.

The program has lots of features to speed up your FTP operations. If you want to make a quick edit to a PHP file, you might normally download it to your hard drive, open the document, save it your hard drive and upload the file again. But here you can select a file, choose to open it with the internal Wise-FTP editor, and make changes right away.

You can also synchronize local and remote folders, where Wise-FTP will automatically ensure the files on your server match those on your hard drive. Or, if you’re working with a lot of files, set up the Scheduler and it’ll upload them all while you’re not around.