The WPDM Pro basic settings has a note about Category and Package URL Base fields…
“Caution: Use unique word for each url base. Also, don’t create any page or post with same slug you used for WPDM URL Bases below.”
Currently they are set to ‘downloads’ (Category) and ‘download’ (Package), which I believe is the default. The problem with this is that it seems to break the ‘breadcrumbs’ on our site? We are using ‘wpdm-all-packages’ to display a data table of all of the downloadable files. When a visitor clicks on one of the file links, it opens the package webpage. However, the breadcrumbs do not let you return to the parent folder (downloads) because the URL to the package is actually ‘…/download/[package webpage]’ instead of ‘…/downloads/[package webpage]’. This causes the breadcrumbs to be much less useful and means the visitor needs to either click the browser back button or reselect the Downloads page from the main navigation. This only occurs on the pages generated by WPDM Pro.
What is the problem with setting both URL Bases to the same word? Is there any other way to bring back the breadcrumb functionality?
Thanks for any helps.
I really like this layout for the downloads list. The sortable and searchable data table is great! I’m wondering if this view is now or will in the future be able to be modified in terms of the information it shows? Currently it shows columns for ‘Title’, ‘Categories’, ‘Create Date’ and ‘Download’ link. I would like to show the file size (preferably under the Title, but a column is okay too), the applied Tags (in a column) and let the ‘Title’ be the clickable download link so that I could remove the redundant ‘Download’ column (luxury request ;-).
Is there any template or set of shortcodes that could be used to achieve some of these things?
I just bought this product and installed it. I tried to preview your templates admin > Downloads > Templates > Preveiw, but nothing happen. When I scroll over the “preview” button I can see the link is to “#”.
So, where are all the templates? Is there somewhere on your website I can see them? Please don’t send me to your demo page, I have seen that and it is not that easy to navigate.
BTW, your demo page has a misspelling at the top of the page “Downlod” instead of “Download”. My client nearly didn’t want me to buy your product. I recommend you clean it up.
Hello,
Please advise on this matter. We have attached directory to package and all files got listed in downloads table, but links to files all start downloading generic download-manager-file, and real file links are missing.
Could you please help with this, I’m attaching screenshot.
Thanks,
Boris
Hi Shaon
I’m trying to achive showing different downloads sortet by categories in tabs.
With the following code:
<ul class="uk-tab" data-uk-tab="{connect:'#dbrochure'}">
<li><a>Alle</a></li>
<li><a>Skadedyr</a></li>
<li><a>Fødevaresikkerhed</a></li>
</ul>
<ul id="dbrochure" class="uk-switcher uk-margin">
<li>[wpdm-all-packages items_per_page="100" categories="brochurer, brochurer-foedevaresikkerhed, brochurer_skadedyr" jstable=1 toolbar="0"]
</li>
<li>[wpdm-all-packages items_per_page="100" categories="brochurer_skadedyr" jstable=1 toolbar="0"]</li>
<li>[wpdm-all-packages items_per_page="100" categories="brochurer-foedevaresikkerhed" jstable=1 toolbar="0"]</li>
</ul>
When I trying to do so, I get a error mesasge saying: DataTables warning: table id=wpdmmydls – Cannot reinitialise DataTable. For more information about this error, please see http://datatables.net/tn/3
The way I can get it to work, is to set items_per_page=”All” or jstable=0 but then I will miss the seacrh and sorting function.
Is there any workaround for this?
Hope you can help.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards Lars
Hi,
We just bought the plugin and the Download Limits addon and have a question about a specific configuration we are trying to achieve.
We have a category called “Free” that we do not want to limit the number of downloads, whereas the other category (Premium) we want to limit to 3 per week. It looks like limiting downloads applies to all of the Packages we have in the system. Is there any filter / setting / method to allow Unlimited downloads of one category and limit the number of downloads for another (or the rest except that one category)? We definitely want to use the one plugin to manage them all, but we don’t want to affect the limit by allowing users to download the “free” documents.
Please let me know if you need more information to assist us in this.
Thank you
Hi Shaon,
I just noticed that I keep getting the 404, Page not found! on all my packages when I open them… https://www.dropbox.com/s/9f975ru9kszag6n/Screenshot%202015-02-18%2020.39.00.png?dl=0
My site is http://www.downloadsermon.com
Kindly help with this; seems it’s from the last update…
On my installations i have a lot of errors on error log
like
[Tue Feb 17 18:45:02 2015] [error] [client 79.107.4.76] \xce\xa3\xcf\x86\xce\xac\xce\xbb\xce\xbc\xce\xb1 Lost connection to MySQL server during query \xce\xb2\xce\xac\xcf\x83\xce\xb7\xcf\x82 \xce\xb4\xce\xb5\xce\xb4\xce\xbf\xce\xbc\xce\xad\xce\xbd\xcf\x89\xce\xbd WordPress \xce\xb3\xce\xb9\xce\xb1 \xce\xb1\xce\xaf\xcf\x84\xce\xb7\xcf\x83\xce\xb7 select count(*) from bsgr_4_ahm_download_stats where pid=’25076′ and ip=’79.107.4.76′ /* From [subz.blog-spot.gr/?wpdmtask=get_downloads&pg=1286&category=2786&order_by=view_count&order=DESC] in [/nas/wp/www/cluster-10717/blogspot/wp-content/plugins/download-manager/wpdm-core.php:84] */ \xce\xb1\xcf\x80\xcf\x8c require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-config.php’), require_once(‘wp-settings.php’), do_action(‘wp_loaded’), call_user_func_array, wpdm_get_downloads, FetchTemplate, wpdm_setup_package_data, DownloadLink, wpdm_is_download_limit_exceed, referer: http://subz.blog-spot.gr/archio-ipotitlon-2/
On Wpengine support they told me to contact you about performance of plugin . The website have 900.000 visits per month. Now i have installed 4.1.7 of download manager. Is there any optimisation on the newer version for performance. or is there any way to make it faster because i have a lot of 504 errors.
I am sending also in image WPengine ticket conversation
Hey Shaon,
I’ve tried for 2 days now to get my downloads to display in a simple grid. I currently have 4 downloads but they will only list in a vertical stack, something like the Metro template 3 wide by however many down would be great.
I’ve cloned link templates, tried different shortcodes all without success.
Chris
Hi,
I have browsed through almost every page of the docs, but I am still very confused and have no clue how to create a simple all downloads page as shown at http://demo.wpdownloadmanager.com/wpdmpro/all-downloads/
and this one:
http://demo.wpdownloadmanager.com/wpdmpro/accordion/
I’ve just bought the WPDM Pro and the Email Notification add-on.
Just a quick suggestion for you, maybe in your member-download area you could provide a documentation in PDF where we can download.
Also please include some explanation of how WPDM actually work, for instance, what is a package, category, and then the actual downloadable files and stuff like that, otherwise your customers like me will get lost in the space, trust me on this one.
Anyway, if you could please outline a step-by-step guide or perhaps direct me to download a specific template-ready file to enable those 2 ‘all downloads’ and ‘accordion’ pages, that will save me heaps of hours.
Thanks heaps.