I’m using DM in two ways – in some places I use a shortcode, and in other places (like where I need smooth ajax pagination), I use a Visual Composer block where I filter my downloads based on custom post type and tags. How can I force DM to generate a link to the file by default in both cases? For the first, I think just editing the link template can take care of that. For the latter, I’m a bit lost on that.
Basically if the link is this:
http://foo.staging.ettops.com/download/hr-file-4/
I want that link to be to the file itself, not the interstitial page. I’m open to hacking, nowhere on this site does anyone want to see a “page” for the file, they just want the file.
Sir,
WPDM is working well, but I am not understanding how to offer a list of files and only display the list users (not subscribers) who are allowed access. I “think” I can do by category or tag, but can you please supply an example.
Here’s what I want to accomplish – show a list of available downloads using shortcode like so:
[wpdm_package id='2432']
[wpdm_package id='1211']
[wpdm_package id='3759']
[wpdm_package id='4487']
But if user is NOT allowed to see ID=2432, then it does not display. Can you tell me how to best accomplish this?
Chris
I have a category called ‘General Downloads’ into which I have uploaded 3 packages.
One of my clients is only allowed to see 2 of these packages (I use WPDM – Custom Access Level to restrict access for them).
However, when they log in and go to the page to see their packages although it shows the 2 packages they are allowed to see, it also shows a blank space where the 3rd package would be. It looks like it is deciding on the number of packages to display BEFORE checking that the user is allowed to view all of them. I’m using the [wpdm_category] shortcode as follows :
[wpdm_category id="general-downloads" operator="IN" title="General Downloads" desc="" item_per_page="10" cols=2 colspad=1 colsphone=1 template="56e88fd5077e6"]
Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
I attach a screenshot of what I’m seeing.
Hi I just purchased your plugin. I have 2 questions.
1. How do setup a page for users to see all files available to download without asking them to login. I dont want to restrict downloads at all.
2. How can I add a search bar for users to search for documents?
My website is here: http://ankararize.com/work/icma/resource-library/
I set up a page with [wpdm_frontend]
But it’s asking for login
Please help me as soon as you can.
It seems to me that regardless of the WPDM “Page Template” I set for any download item, it still makes use of single.php. I can change the page template in the usual WP way, but at this point, I would have to change it individually for all of my downloads (I see no way to bulk update the page template for downloads).
Am I misunderstanding how this works, or is there a way to work around this, so that all my downloads use a custom page template?
Please can you advise me how to stop Archive Search from search for everything on the first load? I have over 15000 documents and obviously do not want to display them all.
Simon
As I have tried different configurations to try and get the plugin working as I think it should, I have come across a few problems within it.
With the WP Dashboard and Downloads menu there is an option to view ‘Add-ons’, when selected I get this error
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 39583744) (tried to allocate 20 bytes) in /———–/wp-content/plugins/download-manager/admin/menus/class.Addons.php on line 37
In the templates area, the guide down the right gives a shortcode of ‘[gallery_WxH]’, I have tried to use this and it doesn’t work.
Also on the template page there is an option to add a featured image to the download page at the size you want. e.g at 250px width, this works OK in MS Edge browser, but all others still display the image at the upload size, so the page rendering is all out of sync.
Too many errors for a paid application IMHO, hopefully you will sort them soon :(((
I am failing HTML and accessibility validators due to the file icons not having appropriate alt tags.
Is there a way to have them automatically generated?
Sample template…
<div class=”thumbnail”>
<div class=”media”>
[icon]
<div class=”media-body”>
<h4 class=”media-heading”>[download_link]</h4>
<span class=”ggdm-icon”><i class=”fa fa-th-large”></i> [file_size]</span>
<span class=”ggdm-icon2″><i class=”fa fa-download”></i>[download_count]downloads</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Hi
Is there a way that i can search for documents, then select all search results and download with a single click? without having to download each document separately?
Thanks
Hi – I have just set this up and cant get the download to work. I have a 2.3gb zip file uploaded on Amazon S3, and I am using the S3 plugin. I can locate the S3 file fine when I am creating a new download in WPDM – however when I try and download it on the live site – for some reason it downloads a copy of my File Browser Root folders instead of the 2.3gb zip – it does this everytime – regardless of what I attach from S3 – and it always claims the file size to be only 4kb
Interestingly I have a small blue question mark next to my File Browser Root in settings – not sure if this is anyway connected – please help!!! Thanks Steve