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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:

https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/doc/short-codes/wpdm_category-query-all-downloads-from-one-or-more-categories/

https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/doc/short-codes/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

not necessarily. You can clone link-template-calltoaction4.php to create a copy of that template from wp-admin menu ► downloads ► templates and update texts, then use the new template with your shortcode.

For updating the WPDM PRO main plugin, Please simply click the Save Settings again for the license key option from Downloads > Settings > License, and then please update the plugin from the wp-admin > plugins panel.

Alternatively, 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