AUS-37: Deployment Blocked — SFTP/Elementor Cloud Access Needed

The plugin has been built and packaged (AUS-20 complete). Deployment to production is blocked.

Blocker

No SFTP or file-manager access to wp-content/plugins/ on Elementor Cloud.

What’s Working

• Plugin code: Production-ready at projects/Ausstellungsstcke/ausstellungsstuecke-plugin/
• WooCommerce MCP API: Fully functional (verified — lists plugins, manages products, queries users)
• WooCommerce REST API auth: Works via application-password auth
• WordPress plugin install via REST: Not working — Basic Auth fails with 401 on plugin management endpoints

Why Basic Auth Fails

The WordPress user alessandro@draiwing.com authenticates to WooCommerce endpoints (MCP) but not to WordPress core REST plugin management. Most likely cause: Application Passwords are required instead of regular WP passwords for the REST API, OR a security plugin (Really Simple Security is installed — v9.5.10.1) is blocking Basic Auth.

Required

One of:

1. SFTP credentials for Elementor Cloud
2. Elementor Cloud portal login (to use file manager)
3. WordPress admin URL + session cookie that bypasses Basic Auth
4. WP-CLI SSH access to Elementor Cloud

Plugin is Ready to Deploy

/tmp/ausstellungsstuecke-plugin.zip (63KB) contains the full plugin:

• 3 DB tables (ausstell_provenance, ausstell_auth_requests, ausstell_audit_log)
• Exhibition Piece product type
• Curator dashboard with provenance + auth request management
• REST API endpoints
• Capability-based security

Next step: Board to provide access method → I’ll execute deployment.