Here is what I want to do; and I can’t see how to do it anywhere:
* I want a page that lists all the categories.
* When I click a category I want to got a page which lists all the downloads in that category.
It would be handy if these lists where generated automatically.
Just simple lists; no boxes, no fancy layout. If someone can tell me how to do this it would be greatly appreciated. At the moment this is very frustrating.
Thanks,
Jim
I run a site that sells subscriptions to premium content in the form of PDFs that can be downloaded through DOCMAN. I am migrating this joomla site to wordpress, and am trying to bulid a similar document management systems to docman.
I am using s2Member to sel premium memberships, and once purchased their role will be “Premium”.
Premium members should be able to download all PDFs (free + premium) in the downloads area, while registered users will only be able to download a subset of those files.
1) Can download manager work with the custom user levels of s2member (visitor, registered, premium)? I’m only seeing two options right now for the pdf i uploaded in the free DM version – all visitors & members only.
Thanks
Maybe I worded this poorly. I can’t use the plugin because the ‘downloads’ folder does not appear as a menu item.
Please take a look at a snapshot after the plugin was installed and activated, by the way the widgets show up and they
work. Just no ‘downloads’ folder to do anything.
I had the FREE version, deleted it, downloaded, installed and activated the pro version but the ‘downloads’ directory does not show up as indicated in your demo. Luckily I had not closed another browser where my old installation of download mgr free was, I clicked on the file mgr tab and it allowed me to put in the license code for the pro version. That’s the last I have seen of the program. Deactivated the plugin, activated again,
still nothing. Tried all 4 browsers.
Hello!
I do have 10 seperate WP-Installations which are all located in a central directory named “websites”. The single WP’s are then in subdirs like “domain1.com”, “domain2.com”, … etc. All WP-tables are in the same database, but each installation has it’s own tables, I didn’t use the standard “wp_”, but “d1_” for domain1, “d2_” for domain2, ….
I was looking for a simple download manager tool and found this plugin. I installed it on one domain and uploaded some files. Everything worked really fine and smoothly.
Now I installed it on a second domain and there I was very suprised, when it showed me a list of already existing downloadable files. Well, all the files from first installation. Even when I delete a file in installation nr 2, it disappears in the first installation.
It seems that both installations exactly the same data-tables or other settings. How can I change that? The websites are maintained by different users and I don’t want them to be able to handle with downloads from other users.
Hope anyone can help me.
Best regards
Yann
With user reviews, are we able to add a section on the download itself to actually let the person add a review? Or is this not possible? I don’t see anything about it be able to be added to the downloads themselves? I just see the sidebar area in the admin panel?
Hi, i did buy the Pro Version + alot of Plugin’s.
here is a list of my Problems.
1. I did a translation with the .po File.
After a day of Translation i found out that still alot of stuff will be displayed in english.
Is this a known problem ?
2. When i Display the Archive-Page it doesn’t show the ICON’s of the choosen content inside the Categorie
seems like somethink wrong with the ICON Adress.
Right now it is :
https://download.medidok.net/index.php/alle-downloads/%3Cimg%20width=48%20class=’wpdm_icon’%20align=’left’%20src=’https://download.medidok.net/wp4mddown/wp-content/plugins/download-manager/file-type-icons/download2.png’%20/%3E
If i open a Categorie by the Widget
it is https://download.medidok.net/wp4mddown/wp-content/plugins/download-manager/file-type-icons/download2.png
3.
I Ordered first the Pro Version with Plugin and then i Ordered again the speed Control Plugin
what Key should i use? I have 2 key’s now.
When i look inside my account here it doesn’t have a domain ?! normal ?
4. I had Problems with the permalink structure
The Site is https://download.medidok.net
The content is https://download.medidok.net/wp4mddown/
I had to change the Startsite inside WP to https://download.medidok.net/index.php
After that i could use /%postname%/ inside permalink settings.
Beside that i did change inside download-manager/modules/ the file canonical-url.php
under function wpdm_flat_url
i did change every .site_url to .home_url
I’m note sure if that was really needed but i’ve done it to get it working
I’m Using IIS7.5 and WP3.51 on php 5.3.21 (Fast-CGI)
hopefully i can get some help here
hi
is there any shortcode to show all downloads count? i want to show how many files have been downloaded from my site.
Could someone help me with the WPDM New Packages Widget? In specific pages I want to show a category with downloads. But when I use the code of a specific category, all downloads of all categories appear in the widget.
How can I display only one category in the widget? Thank you.
We are having a similar issues. Sometimes the files will upload to the server and sometimes they wont. We created all of our packages and then realized that when you click the download button for either the individual files or the full package, only some of them work. The download-manager-files folder seems to have 755 on it. Should it be 777? I’m assuming not. Why would some of the downloads work and some not? We checked inside of the directory and only a few of the files are making it all the way up, it’s not a file size issue either because some large files make it after a few tries and some small ones don’t make it up even though the package shows that it did. However, the files are missing from the directory on the server. Does this all make sense? We are using WP 3.5.1
my client would like to add checkboxes to the listing template and a button that allows selected files to be downloaded (either as one zip file or individually, if possible).
any ideas if that’s feasible?
thanks
I have some install applications that I need to have hosted on the site. I FTP the files onto the server, and set up the package for the download. When anyone tries to download on of the files it gives them a zero length file and nothing really downloads. I need to get this fixed ASAP. We just released a new version and now I have no way to get it to my customers for upgrades.
That only works for the download counts in the individual files/packages templates, but the counts are still displayed on the main Downloads page, which is created by the Archive Page add-on.
That’s the one we haven’t been able to remove the download counts from. What is the template for the main page of the Archive Page layout?
I loved the free version of this plugin, but I need users to make file uploads and downloads to defined categories, all in one on the same page or on different pages. Looking a bit in the plugin options in the demo pro and unfortunately I could not identify this function. So I would like to confirm that it is possible to do this with the plugin?
Alas, I cannot give you access to the website, but there is definitely some confusion on how to use Link Templates and Page Templates.
We have test pages with single files as packages, but changing the Link Templates and Page Templates so we can view them doesn’t do anything at all… how can we best see what these templates look like?
And what is the best way to add images to the Directory add-on? We finally found where the crazy font was being added and removed it from the add on so that it used the same font as the rest of the site, but the thumbnails and featured images seem to have an erratic preference of their own when it comes to display sizes 🙂
Are there recommended sizes for Featured images for downloads?
yes, in demo all templates are available and working there, may you please send a temporary wp-admin login info to support@wpdownloadmanager.com to check your issue
the button seems to work and a file downloads but there are no files in the zip when I try and unzip it
http://dicon.turnpostinteractive.com/download/antiquarium/
Thanks, this is really helpful. I will do that.
Actually you will never need that feature, as wpdm pro already has clone option. You can create a package with default settings, then every time you need to create another package, you can clone previous one or the default one.
Hi, is it possible to display the “Top Download” widget in desc order based on number of downloads?
Actually they are displayed in alphabetical order only.
Thanks.
We will not be selling any files for the foreseeable future, however I’ve moved us from WordPress Download Monitor and I need to still have one page where: folks can search for all documents/files, they can visually see all grouped by the categories…AND I want to be able to have them download more than one file at a time. It would seem like a need the Premium Addon for the shopping cart feature to do multiple downloads, however does that also give the view of all the files grouped by category or where the user can filter them…or do I have to also buy the Directory Add-on for that? This feature here: http://nthouses.ee/kvaliteet-ja-sertifikaadid/
Thanks!
I found a similar issue trying to expand the search with the archive addon. The actual archive page itself uses a javascript search query that appears to only search by title. Could not get it to look at package descriptions.
However, if you use the [wpdm-search-page] shortcode that comes with the wpdm directory add-on, THAT searches into the description. I only discovered that shortcode by going through the source code for the archive php file. The section to describe that area is on line 364. I then rewrote that to include categories and ended up with something like this: $res = $wpdb->get_results(“select * from {$wpdb->prefix}ahm_files where title like ‘%$_REQUEST[q]%’ or description like ‘%$_REQUEST[q]%’ or category like ‘%$_REQUEST[q]%'”,ARRAY_A);
Since my site is for downloads only, and nothing else, I ended up rewriting the search.php page in my theme template area using this information to create a search bar on the site itself that parses the data out to a new page.
Anyway, I hope this can help you some as it took me about 2 days to get it all sorted out for my own site.
Replying again, my admin account was reseted and I was able to download again and I did 10 downloads (limit is 2) with not a limitation txt popping on at all. Please check my issue and please try to download my own downloads from my own posts where the problem persists. If you need a new account I can give you one right away.
Thank you!
Wow….! So, I took your advice @Shaon and contacted Live Support. Firstly they pointed me to the add-ons which provide the TinyMCE icon and the import of the downloads from the free version. Excellent – though may be a good idea to alert people they will need these, especially as they are free.
Then the issue I had with templates was resolved after I gave Live Support admin access and FTP access whereupon it was discovered the plugin had not been fully installed somehow and some files were missing. They were added and the Pro version now works…!
I had initially asked for my money back….but now I’ll be promoting the plug in instead because of the excellent support.
Thanks.
Me too…! When you have a site that has hundreds of downloads with the free version, the last thing you want is the Pro version to ignore them meaning you have to install them all again…!
Plus the TinyMCE button disappearing is just plain daft.
Plus the templates do not work – no matter which template I choose it only ever shows the default on the front end.
Happy…? Not…! I’m switching back to the free version – it is SO MUCH BETTER…!