Ed – I was on the same trail as you, trying to work out how to create custom templates in my theme folder structure.
I found that putting a template in “\wp-content\themes\my-theme\download-manager\link-templates” does work, as long as I give it a file name that didn’t exist in the plugin’s folder, and that the comment line at the top of my custom template is unique.
By the way, I’m not planning to use the page templates at present so I can’t comment on whether its easy to customise them.
Maybe that helps, or at least gives you some hope … I’m still checking that everything is in order, so if I find something weird, I’ll post again.
@dru77ster, You can save your key in the new site. It is not linked to any domain. Make sure you have installed the latest version of Download Manager. Please check my first reply above and follow that method to update your WPDM.
@krd, As you have two licenses you can use WPDM on both sites using different keys. You are getting the invalid key error because of the old version. Please install the latest version on both sites. Please check my first reply above and follow that method to update your WPDM.
Adding multiple files. Bulk downloads (Zip files) are allowed, but stop displaying individual download links. I have set my global settings to allow individual downloads, but it does not appear when adding individual packages to allow downloads.
I am running 4.9.7 with WordPress 5.2.2.
Any Page Template which uses the [file_list] template tag has stopped showing individual download links. I have a global setting to allow individual downloads, and even if I additionally set an individual package to allow the downloads, it doesn’t show up.
Interestingly, the [file_list_extended] syntax does show individual download links.
In the attached image you can see the [file_list] tag at top (no download buttons) and the [file_list_extended] tag below it (yes download buttons).
I appreciate any help. I am running 4.9.7 on WordPress 5.2.2. Thank you!
My apologies for not responding sooner. Your emails were going to my junk box. I’ve corrected that.
I understand custom overrides, so I tried this. The process described in the information you provided does not work.
I moved my two custom (link) templates from “\wp-content\plugins\download-manager\tpls\link-templates” to “\wp-content\themes\my-theme\download-manager”. After that, the custom templates were not not displaying correctly and no longer showed up in Downloads > Templates > Link Templates (tab).
Then, I moved my two custom (link) templates to “\wp-content\themes\my-theme\download-manager\link-templates”. Now they show up in Downloads > Templates > Link Templates (tab), but are still not being sourced and my pages are not displaying correctly. I refreshed pages, I cleared my cache, nothing helped.
Then, I moved my two custom (link) templates back to “\wp-content\plugins\download-manager\tpls\link-templates” and they started working again.
I have a parent page with a list of documents that can be downloaded from our website, but each document name is also a hyperlink to a page that shows metadata regarding that download that we would like to prevent people from clicking. Is there a way of presenting these as just text rather than as a hyperlink? I’ve attached an image that shows the situation.
I have done this for my main client. I added the full url and reworded the link label to make it clear it wasn’t a download. I had no trouble as long as I included the http(s):// at the beginning. I haven’t done it lately though so maybe something has changed.
You just have to put the button code in the “Login Required Message:” option. Please send temporary wp-admin login info in private reply if you need help with that.
Assign the ‘Subscriber’ role as ‘Allow Access’ option in package settings meta box. And then set a custom message in “Login Required Message:” option in the “Basic Settings” page. Logged in subscribers will see the download button and non-logged user will see the message. You can set anything in the message, it could be another button too which links to the login url.
About 2 weeks ago we log the individual download links that were on a Package Page. The “Download Package” is still available, however we can no longer download the package contents individually. I have attached screenshots of our settings.
How do we show the links to the download files in the front-end. We are using the table shortcode, and when we hover over a download button, it’s just showing the page path with a hash tag “www.site.com/download/#” but we want the downloads to show the full url “www.site.com/download/book.pdf”
We have tried unmasking the downloads but they are still no showing the full url.