I can take the file and place it in a folder in my root directory and download it via a direct link from the same computer with the same connection. It might take 4 minutes or it might take 10 minutes, but it downloads. So it is not a hosting or firewall issue.
That same file when linked through WPDM times out at 3.5 minutes.
AND it was not timing out 2 weeks ago. The only thing that changed was updating to version 4.7.3.
Downloads depend on the internet speed. So, it can’t be same in everywhere. Are you using GoDaddy hosting? Is there any firewall enabled? Have you any PHP error in the log file?
You can show packages from certain categories with the all packages shortcode. But there is no option available for tags. You need to use the shortcode on any page to show the packages there. You can use TinyMCE button to easily insert the shortcode.
You can do customize design for wpdm-all-download by putting the wpdm-all-download.php file into the ActiveTheme/download-manager/ folder and modifying it.
I was using Downloads very successfully up until about 2 months ago – since then all my download links no longer work but result in a 404 error, I cannot find the cause of this, please assist.
Hi, after looking at the code I see the fault is on me. Please help me to correct the code!!
Some years ago we customized the file “wpd-all-downloads.php” and put it in our child theme. But I now see our file is totally outdated, since WPDM have updated and changed the code in the php-file, last year I think. (I am surprised our modified file is still working at all…)
In the following code from wpdm-all-downloads.php I need your help to change two things:
case 'categories':
echo "<span class='__dt_categories {$cxc}'>".$cats."</span>";
break;
case 'update_date':
echo "<span class='__dt_update_date {$cxc}'>".get_the_modified_date('', get_the_ID())."</span>";
break;
I do not want “categories”. I want “Version” instead.
I do not want “Update date”. I want “File size” instead.
Can you please give me the changed code, so I dont mess it up.
Do I also need to add some changes anywhere else in the php-file to make this change work?!
How do I show a list of available downloads? I’m trying to set up a secure section of a website that has a list of downloads, with categories, for all users to freely download.
Also, how do I add a link to this page in the menu on the Dashboard?
From Short Codes you can find the Category Short-code [wpdm_category id="Category ID" order_by="field name" order="asc or desc" item_per_page="10" template="temaplte name or ID"]
Hi,
For,
2. WPDM does not serve downloads using the filepath. Even if the user has the filepath, no one can download the file if doesn’t have right permission ( from package settings ).
3.
3.1 Transparency possible
3.2 yes, you can stamp user info
3.3 encryption possible, But there no way you can actually secure it, as it is viewed by the user, so they can get images of the pdf to use later.
3.4 it depends on the server. Should work with any file size
Hello,
we have two twin-installations, cloned by Updraft, cause the client wants to change providers. So we copied from existing provider to new provider. Fairly (cause client wont lack money), we licensed both profi-plugins.
All packages appear as we want (right content in description, right category), but what lacks is: there are no attached files. When we use “export-downloads” under tools in WP (so we get a xml), the XML contains data for attached files. Even the folder exisists at the server and is filled with correct files.
How can we make sure, attached files will show up? By the amount of packages and attached files, a “by-hand”-solution fails. And: we do need the exact package-ids otherwise page content wont show the right package. What can we do? One of my guesses is: client missed some migration in the past, so attached-file-data is hidden in some custom fields.
Today I just purchased your DEFAULT VALUES ADD ON but it doesn’t work via the frontend and I really need it to please?
If it is supposed to work please can you check it via the secure login I already sent you as really trying to finish this site today
Ive also noticed in wp-admin Downloads > Settings > Updates I get a php fatal error if I try to click that check for updates button
Please check for that for me too
EDIT – just tried that UPDATE ALL button in teh default values to see if it would apply templates and who can have access to all packages and the templates worked but on both test packages they are now empty in the allow access to! so it has removed all user groups/roles from that field? please check.
That sounds like a bug to me, if the password is always checked – even if it is disabled and shouldn’t be used.
And: on my install of the free version, all my downloads have been set a kind of default password (not by me). So EVERY download does now require a password, which is in that way quite unuseful. Currently I am in the process to edit every single download an remove this default password…
We’ve worked with you guys quite a bit on getting out settings and permissions set so that our users can download large files. And it has been working really well.
Until we installed the update.
Now the large downloads timeout at 3.5 minutes.
We have a 100MB file. I tried downloading it on 3 different machines with different connection speeds multiple times each. Sometimes it downloaded 30MBs of the file and and I got ‘download was interrupted’ at 3.5 minutes. Sometimes it downloaded 80MBs of the file and I got ‘download was interrupted’ at 3.5 minutes.
I had one successful download where the it finished in 2:45 minutes.
I then put the same file on a server and tested a direct link download and was successful 3 times in a row and each download took around 10 minutes.
I am fully aware that our internet here is painfully slow, but it was working before the update and now it’s not?
Did something change in this update or did something get over-written somewhere?
Hi Marc,
Seems like you are using the directory addon to show downloads on that page. You are using archive page templates which comes from directory addon plugin wpdm-archive-page.
Your second link is not the category page but the downloads archive page. It shows all downloads. The page template ( blog style ) is coming from your theme.
The archive page uses your theme’s archive template to show posts. Download Manager can modify them partially by inserting link template. But to control the view 100% ( to make it look like the first link ) you have to create a custom archive template for download manager posts. For the downloads archive the template file name is archive-wpdmpro.php and for category archive, the template is taxonomy-wpdmcategory.php
You can try giving hide everything from the Downloads settings access settings When the user is not allowed to download , if the permalink of next/previous of download manager posts still showing which are password protected. let me know.
Or, If your theme generating the next/previous post or any plugin like WP Post Navigation generating this than there nothing we can do to hide, as it queries everything.
Hi. I’ve bought Pro, and installed it, but can’t see any of my downloads on screen. I’ve downloaded the Pro migration tool, but when I run it, it gives me two Version 3 packages on the list, but no other options. What am I missing? 🙂
“1 ) Insert category slug under category column, it is now 252 for all packages. Replace it with category slug. You will find category slugs in Downloads Categories page.”
Not sure if you mean I enter the category name for the category column?
Thank you for updating the CSV, can you please mark your reply as Private, it’s a security risk if people can see the paths on my site.