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As the WPDM Block Hotlink add-on will help you to block hot links to download URLs from external sites, it will not work when it’s a link to an external download site. I hope you have understood.

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Hello Bill English,

Hope you are well. And sorry for the inconvenience. For password lock process details, can you please check this doc?

Lock Options

And for your issues, please share the related URLs, you can also share some screenshots, if possible, can you please, give your temporary wp-admin login details in a private reply for checking the issue?

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Hello Simhachalam konari,

I have come forward with information that, you have to add data-package='[ID]' this portion too in this code snippet,

<a href="[download_url]" data-package='[ID]' class="wpdm-download-link wpdm-download-locked btn btn-primary"> Download Now with URL </a>

Thus it will work properly for it. I hope you have understood. please check and let me know

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Hello,
I suggested that plugin according to your initial requirement that you want to integrate a redirect URL to a thank you page after download.
So I suggested the plugin when user clicks on the download then it will redirect to thank you page.Here there is no way to add redirect link. you can set thank you page then in that page you may add any link that could be visited by user.
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Tanvir

Hello Jason Emanuelson,

For menu items to direct download a package, you can follow this way, you can generate a package download URL as I image attached and add a menu from Custom Link as I image attached,

please check and let me know, if it helps you.

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Hi,

Regarding the queries.

1. It appears that you are using an older version of the WPDM plugin. Can you please try after updating to the latest version to check whether it’s working or not?

If still, the problem exists then please share the related package URL where you have tested.

2. Awaiting the dev team’s confirmation. Please spare us some additional time.

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Hello 127 Stvdio,

I hope you are using our this add-on,

Elementor Addons

Can you please share the issue-related URL, please? if possible, can you please, give your temporary wp-admin login details in a private reply for checking the issue in detail?

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Hello,

Please ensure that WPDM Pro, WP Membership and Extended shortcode addon are in the latest version.

WPDM Extended Short-codes

If the problem still exists then please share your website credentials in a private reply so that I can take a closer look and work with you to get this working.

Here are the details I’ll need –

# Website Login URL
# Username
# Password
# Related web page URL

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

@Shahjada, I’ve already customized the link and page templates to create new defaults, and while it’s great that I can clone and then edit templates (yay!), I can’t find a way to specify the new templates to be used as my new “defaults” nor to bulk-edit my assets to specify the new defaults, it looks like I’ll have to manually edit my hundreds of downloads to do that…..sigh…

BUT on THIS issue of the base URL, I see that in the plugin’s main file there are lines that setup the slug variable, in download-manager.php on line 289 there is this:

 $tslug = get_option('__wpdm_purl_base', 'download');
        if(!strpos("_$tslug", "%"))
            $slug = sanitize_title($tslug);
        else
            $slug = $tslug;

and then a few lines further down, line 304, is the rewrite argument for the CPT that uses that variable.

I tried commenting those out but then the plugin inserted “wpdmpro” into the URL and did NOT use my category. 🙁

I’ve already had to hack this file to add support for post_tags, which is critical for us, we can’t do without the Post Tags applied to each asset, so as long as I’m hacking it, can you tell me if you think this part of the code is causing the problem?

Thank you @shahjada I truly appreciate your ongoing help, but this is not working.

While my (non downloads) Pages are working (no more 404s) none of the downloads are actually accessible, I get a 404 on those when I try to “view” them from the Downloads overview page in the back end, and the front-facing page where I have the shortcode to display the list by category shows nothing, just the (added by WPDM) search and filter bar, no listing below even though I’m certain I have the categories set for each download and the short code entered correctly (it was working fine before, no changes to the shortcode and the category ID has not changed).

In order to get the category name in the URL, but not the word “download”, I used both snippets of code you’ve provided – the one way above that sets up the variable %wpdmcategory% and the code just above to filter out ‘download’ when parsing.

All downloads show the correct URL structure in the back end (mysite.com/wpdmcategoryname/assetname) but can’t be accessed on the front end.

And honestly I’ll tell you that this should not be a “paid” customization. I was told in the forum for the free version that by upgrading to the Pro version I’d be able to control the URL base, this is not what I call “controlling the URL base”.

I’m fortunate to also be a developer, I’ve been working with WP since pre-version 1, and have developed many themes and a few custom plugins myself…….I cannot imagine the frustration of someone trying to do this without my background, I’m extremely frustrated by this and deeply unhappy…..

To be honest, I don’t even understand why your plugin works so hard to NOT let a user control the URL…..

I’m going to keep messing with this for one more day, after that if I can’t get it working I will request a refund and just go back to Download Monitor.

Hello Shahjada,

Once again, thank you so much for a very quick reply and solution, I can confirm that following your last instruction did get everything back working fine.

However, sadly it does not do what we need, and what the OP needs, which is to be able to remove the /download/ (or /downloads/) from the URL.

Perhaps it might help if I explain our situation better…..

We have had (for many, many years) a page titled “Downloads” (in our URL, it was http://www.oursite.com/downloads) on that page we initially just listed links to certain pages (posts, actually), each that had a blurb and something to download…it might be a user guide, or a map, or whatever, and the URL was “www.oursite.com/maps/thismap.pdf” or “www.oursite.com/user-guides/myguide.pdf”. Each individual page was optimized for that asset, and our main “Downloads” page was just a listing of links to those pages by category.

Then a few years ago my boss said “we need to track how many people download those” so we switched to using a plugin, Download Monitor, which worked great, although it was a huge amount of work to move all our assets into it and swap out the links, but it worked.

Then recently my boss said “we need to let visitors VIEW the download first, or print it, before they decide if they want to download it”. Great. Download Monitor won’t do that, so I searched for weeks and tested many other plugins, before settling on yours – it’s truly a great plugin – BUT we discovered after installing it and migrating all our downloads from Download Monitor into yours, that it added the /downloads/ into the URL and our main Downloads page no longer worked.

So from the WP forum for the free version I was directed to the Pro version and told the Pro version would allow me to set the URL base myself.

I need to be able to keep ONLY the category name in the URL – that is how our downloads have been indexed for years and I really don’t want to do redirects. I like that your plugin uses custom category so it could import the categories from Download Monitor also (that process was super-simple and very smooth). 🙂

BUT we’ve also always used post_tags to associate assets with content – so if I have a post about a product, and I have a user guide for that product, they get associated to the same page by tagging them both with the same post_tag.

Since your plugin does not support using post_tags (you’ve removed that support on line 315 of the current version 6.3.3) which I had to change that line from “false” to “true” and comment out line 369 (so that the custom tags are not registered), and I keep good notes so that if/when I update to the next version I can make those changes again (I would encourage you to consider adding that as a choice to the Settings, to enable or disable support for Post Tags and maybe even other users might like support for Post Categories).

I deeply appreciate your ongoing help to figure out this URL base thing, I’ve already spent weeks on this project and my boss is pressuring me to get our assets back online and available because it was a significant source of our traffic and it’s dropping every day I don’t have my downloads back.

WELL I SPOKE TOO SOON!

While the solution offered worked in the BACK END, where I could see that the base URL to my downloadable items (packages) did indeed change to include only the category name, which is good…..

NOW NONE of my Pages are accessible on the front end – ALL content other than my home page goes to the 404 error page!

EDITED TO ADD: After deactivating the plugin WPDM pro, now all pages get redirected to my home page, not good.

I’ve reversed everything and flushed the cache (permalinks) several times and nothing is fixing it. I’m attempting to restore from my backup last night but this is truly disastrous. 🙁

That is not an issue with wpdm, that is how wpdm url settings works.

However, if you want to add category slug with package URL, here is the workaround:

#1. Please add the following code at the end of your active theme’s functions.php:

function wpdm_package_link($post_link, $post) {
	if ('wpdmpro' === $post->post_type) {
		$terms = wp_get_post_terms($post->ID, 'wpdmcategory');
		if ($terms) {
			$term_slug = array_pop($terms)->slug;
			$post_link = str_replace('%wpdmcategory%', $term_slug, $post_link);
		} else {
			$post_link = str_replace('%wpdmcategory%', '-', $post_link);
		}
	}
	return $post_link;
}
add_filter('post_type_link', 'wpdm_package_link', 10, 2);

#2. Then use %wpdmcategory% is wpdm page url base slug.
#3. Save Settings
#4. go to WP Admin Menu ► Settings ► Permalinks
#5. Click “Save Changes” button.

Finally to go WP Admin Menu ► Packages and check the changes in URLs.