Yes, you can show the publish date. Please check the shortcode documentation here https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/doc/short-codes/wpdm_all_packages-list-all-downloads-in-tabular-format-in-a-page/
[wpdm_all_packages items_per_page="10" jstable=0 cols="page_link,file_count,download_count|categories|publish_date|download_link" colheads="Title|Categories|Publish Date|Download::155px"]
It is recommended to use the pagination for performance reason. Showing all files will reduce performance.
Ok, we solved the Problem with an Update. To bad that the Custom Templates are gone… and we have to set all Downloads again with the Templates and generate the Custom Templates again :-/. Hope this doesn’t happen again…
Br
Thanks Shahriar!
Really appreciate the help. This was definitely unintended. After adding the code to functions.php the downloads all appear to be working. It doesn’t fix the filesize report but that doesn’t matter too much.
If you have a moment, could you also possibly deactivate my WPDM Pro licence on easterngoldfields.com.au (old site) so I can use it only on orabandamining.com.au? The control panel to do this doesn’t work for me.
Thanks again.
FYI – I did change the setting as you suggested and also disallowed parallel downloads and enabled cache of zip. No change.
A couple of minor queries.
1. https://www.motoshoot.com.au/date uses the shortcode: [wpdm_carousel category=”8″ item_per_page=”10″]
Whilst the ‘chopped’ image is visually interesting I don’t like the way the image mis-aligns. I would prefer to set the shortcode to default to the grid display (which I don’t know how to do), and even with the shortcode telling it to load 12 it always defaults to 10.
2. https://www.motoshoot.com.au/downloads/2019/
same limitation applies when you directly load a Category – I would *really* like to make this deafult to 12 not 10, but doing file content searches for =10 didn’t point me towards anything logical.
3. https://www.motoshoot.com.au/download/8993/
A standard package display – which I really like BTW. However as you can see I’m actually using the [Package Info] > [Version] field to enter the pixel size of the image. It’s a really simple variation of using the existing code, but I would like to change the text values here.
Package Info > Photo Info
Version = Image Size
These are likely just text strings somewhere in an array, but again file content seaches through the directories doesn’t point to anything worth following up.
I don’t think any of these are major code edits, and they are certainly something I can do myself! I’m really just hoping for some guidance on where to start looking.
Adrian
Thanks Shahriar for quick reply. I pasted the code into functions.php and the result of searching for a known package (8813) is now this:
1. Search still seems to default to ‘Posts’ – as the [Posts] search menu is highlighted at the results screen. The new code breaks my previous edit though and there is no text repsonse at all to a ‘no results’ search.
2. Curiously though when I switch the search menu to [Pages] it gives me a hit on the package……which is doesn’t do under normal Search conditions. Not sure where/how the search string is matching here.
3. As per before it matches when the menu is switched to [Downloads]
Adrian
I’m not sure if this is a WPDM or a Theme question.
I have just been going through the search responses to make them a little clearer to customers. IMHO the Seartch is a bit confusing, as it does not search across *ALL* sections if you select multiple section configuration. In my case I had selected [Posts, Pages & Downloads] yet when I entered the title of a Download Package I get ‘No Results Found’. Huh?
I subsequently figured out that you needed to select the ‘other’ sections from the Search menu to force the code to search those particular sections.
And to make it even more confuing to the new user, unlike a [Post] or a [Page] there was no default text returned when using the Verse Theme when you performed an empty search in the [Downloads] section – just empty space – a little odd as this is Theme for a download plugin!
FWIW you need to edit the [search-templates/wpdmpro.php file] – and it works in a child theme. I just copied the default text from the Verse theme [search-templates/post.php/pages.php], however you will need to cut-and-paste code (and maybe re-position an auto-incrementing variable!) and edit a bit to make it work.
However I noticed that the Search always defaults to [Posts] when I have [Posts], [Pages] and [Downloads] as multiple selected Search options. Again this was a bit confusing at first (as you kinda assume it would search download content), and this was the reason for wanting to improve the ’empty’ responses.
But it got me wondering as to whether I can configure (or code) the Search to default to [Downloads] instead?
I know the string I need to change [?post_type=post] > [?post_type=wpdmpro] but despite some global folder searches and a few coding options in the Verse files (search.php & functions.php) but can’t quite get my head around the relationship here between the variable: $current_post_type & the array: $search_post_types.
The migration add-on is still required. How did you migrate old downloads without it? I see that there is no file attached to most of your packages.
You can use the Default Values add-on ( https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/download/wpdm-default-values/ ) to bulk update package settings. Please check the add-on page for more details. But you have to attach files manually as it is unique to each package.
As you said before there are only 300 packages that your client will need, it is better to delete other packages which will simplify the management.
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Hi WPDM,
Two issues with the button “You Are Not Allowed to Download”, relating to [free_download_btn]
1 – I want to change it to say something else but not get overwritten when you issue an update. How do I do that?
2 – It is allowing downloads all the time to anybody. Page link below is an example (if you are logged out the button will display “Download All Files” and still let you download the free files from the package). if you are logged in and you don’t have the correct subscription to download the free files it will say “You Are Not Allowed to Download”, and still let you download them.
I will add the link in private reply.
How to fix this?
DesignServe
Could somebody help, please? It’s not feasible to reset all these downloads manually.
Shahriar,
You need to add the information about how to add the free button to your documentation! I’ve spent three hours trying to find this out and now I found this forum post by using Google search. It is very difficult to search for anything containing the search terms ‘free files download’ this phrase is all over the Internet!
I have some queries about this now please:
1 – I added the button but it displays the same Link Label as the main package. I need it to have a different Link Label, such as “Download Free Files”, so that members can tell the difference between the download buttons. My main button Link label is Download All Files (because I also have enabled individual files to be downloaded, so I want the main button to say something extra, other than ‘Download’.
2 – Second, On my site I need a free download and a paid members download. However, I dont want the paid member levels to see the free download button (because the free downloads are already available in their paid packages). How could I do that please?
PS your site is looking better every day.
Many thanks,
DesignServe
The plugin got deleted during the update. It happens when there is an issue with WPDM credentials.
If you have installed the latest version of Download Manager please logout and login again to your WPDM account in the Downloads > Settings > Updates page. That should fix the issue.
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The WordPress is using the wp-login page because you have disabled the WPDM login page.
The solution for all issues,
1 ) Set WPDM login page again from Downloads > Settings > Frontend Access > Login Page
2 ) Use this URL http://www.cbsconsulting.com.au/wp-login.php?skipwpdm=1 to login when you want to access the admin area
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Hi Shaon,
Here are two examples on different sites that are causing issue for the Microsoft Windows visitors BUT only for some packages.
Examples:
Welcome Home
https://cad.welsrc.net/downloads-cad/outreach-movies/
Error screen: http://cad.welsrc.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/07/errorDONOTDELETE.jpg
However, MAC users are almost always able to successfully download these. But the folders contained within the .ZIP file are deep BUT appear like…
/nas/content/live/wrc/wp-content/uploads/download-manager-files/AND THEN ALL THE FILES
What could be causing this. When we recreate the package, it works.
Please help us resolve this issue. There are too many (100s) to recreate across all the sites. Thanks.
Hi,
Thanks for getting back to me.
I was hoping to create something that allows this type of filtering of downloads: https://theme-one.com/the-grid/suva/
Each filter title would be a category.
Is this possible?
Kind regards,
Spencer
Hi Greg,
Please install the latest version to fix the issue. Follow these steps to update the plugin,
1 ) Deactivate and delete the old version. You won’t lose any data.
2) Download latest version from here https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/user-dashboard/?udb_page=purchases
3 ) Install the latest version and activate the license key.
If you login to your WPDM account from Downloads > Settings > Updates page, you can update the plugin right from your plugins page.
Thanks.
Hi,
Please install the latest version to fix the issue. Follow these steps to update the plugin,
1 ) Deactivate and delete the old version. You won’t lose any data.
2) Download latest version from here https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/user-dashboard/?udb_page=purchases
3 ) Install the latest version and activate the license key.
If you are facing trouble with auto-update, logout, and then login again from your Downloads > Settings > Updates tab. That should fix the issue.
Thanks.
The way that you changed it did not display the downloads in the proper order. The issue is that the post ID is set when they are uploaded so if they are uploaded out of order then even trying to reorder them using s re-order post plugin doesn’t actually change the ID.
So, my workaround was to edit the ‘publish date’ of each post and then to sort them by date. However, the folders don’t display correctly even though the content inside the folders do. The shortcode I am using is:
[wpdm_tree download_link=1 orderby=date order=desc category=improver-pages]
And the tree appears this way:
2016
Jan
Feb
March
April… etc
2017
Jan
Feb
March
April… etc
2018
Jan
Feb
March
April… etc
– – – BUT – –
What I want is for it to appear this way:
2018
Jan
Feb
March
April… etc
2017
Jan
Feb
March
April… etc
2016
Jan
Feb
March
April… etc
Is there a way to change the order of the categories?
My issues appear to have went away after you accessed my admin. I assumed that you fixed something while you were in there. My downloads are working but I don’t know why because you didn’t say if you fixed anything. Did you fix or do anything? If so, what?
I had made a staging copy of my site last week and it was still having the issues as of this morning. I went into the Cloud Storage settings where my Amazon S3 account credentials are set and I just re-saved the settings by clicking the Save Settings button. Right after doing that, the downloads started working again on my staging site too. Ron, I’d recommend that you try re-saving your settings to see if it gets your S3 downloads working again. Perhaps support re-saved my settings while they were in there.
Shahriar, you couldn’t access my own package downloads because I have my downloads protected by another membership plugin so that only certain membership roles can access the downloads. For future reference, I’ve found that you can still access one of my protected package downloads by going to the edit screen for one of my packages and then clicking Preview Changes. This will open up the page for the package and allow testing of the Download buttons even though the package is protected.
Thanks. Would it be possible for this to be a feature that is added in a future update? I imagine many of the users of your plugin have different categories with different settings for different products and would not always want to do a bulk update that impacts ALL of their downloads. Please consider this as a future feature. Thanks
PS can it be optional in the package whether the mp3 can be downloaded? Or will it prevent all mp3 downloads? If there is no option I prefer that they can’t download the mp3 but it would be better if I have an option to allow or not. Thanks.
