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Hello,

Yes, you can modify the shortcode and put the parameter as orderb="download_count", which will show the most downloaded packages, or orderb="date" to show the most recently uploaded packages.

Example: [wpdm_category id="Category Slug or Slugs" operator="IN" title="Custom Title Here or 1" desc="Custom Description or 1" toolbar="1" paging="1" orderby="date" order="asc" items_per_page="10" template="Template ID" cols=4 colspad=2 colsphone=1 async=1]

For additional parameters and details please check our docs: https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/doc/short-codes/wpdm_category-query-all-downloads-from-one-or-more-categories/

I hope you understand.

Regards

Hello Deb,

Thanks for contacting us.

In the first screenshot that is from Email Template. Can be found in Downloads > Templates > Email Templates menu
In ths second screenshot that is from link template. Details here.

You can find all from Downloads > Templates menu

If you need further assistance please let me know.

Regards
Tanvir

@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?

Hello Rowan Stewart,

The Downloads menu procedure will not work on all web servers.
However, You can also download them from here. And you can upload and install it as a normal plugin.

please check and let me know

Thank you and regards

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.

Yes, you can use wpdm_category or wpdm_packages shortcode:

[wpdm_category] – Query All Downloads From One or More Categories

[wpdm_packages] – WP_Query in a shortcode for download manager packages

Hello @Goode,

Thanks for your reply.

It will allow assigning specific logged in users of your site for those downloads that will be hidden for non-logged in users.
but lock will not be used in this way. We don’t have any user based lock feature.

You can contact for customization service here.

Regards
Tanvir

Yes, table is not available anymore.But “Adding New Payment Gateway” doc will work fine. All these here https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/downloads/payment-gateways/ are custom payment gateways.

Hello Cam E,

Hope you are well. For hiding/restricting downloads files/packages to certain user roles, you can give access to those roles from your files/packages Package Settings > Allow Access section. And if you are using the PRO version of WPDM you can check this option too from When user is not allowed to download > Hide Everything option as I image attached,

I hope you have understood now. Please check and let me know

Thank you and regards