Are you testing this in an unlocked package? Open downloads are always open, you do not need a temporary link for that. Expirable links are for locked packages. This link bypasses the lock and expires after passing usage limit or usage period.
I have had over 100 readers email me to let me know when they are using Internet Explorer and click the link to download, nothing happens. I have tested and have the same problem. Please advise a solution.
I need the feature which got described here: https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/tag/temporary-download-link/
Unfortunately when I generate a link with usage limit “1” and expiration date “5 Minutes”, it will not affect at all. I can still download the file after 20 Minutes as much as I want by this generated link.
Please help me as I really need that feature!
You have to create the /download-manager/ directory/folder inside your active theme dir. Please send FTP info and wp-admin login info in private reply if need help with that.
Btw, I missed one thing in my previous reply. You can replace the title with page_link in your shortcode add a link in download title.
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If adding the link enough you don’t have to edit the template file. The custom template file is required only if you want to add the download link with the title.
Add the following message in Settings Basic Message Login Required Message option and set Hide Everything in Settings Basic Access Settings When user is not allowed to download:
Login is required to access this page
After setting these options, You will see a login link in packages where a user must log in to access the package.
Make sure to replace the basesiteurl in the message with your site URL.
Are you searching from Archive Add-on Search option or is it your regular site search? Although both shows the package in my test. You can try setting the access setting to ‘Only Block Download links’
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Please send login info in private reply if you want me to check the issue there.
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Hello,
Where do I go to change the text in the email sent to clients after download?
Thank you
Hello
I must be missing something but I cannot see what so I thought I would ask.
I am using DownloadManager Pro, I have a Download setup and have created a sales page and on it I want a nice green button which says something like ‘Continue To Checkout Options’ as a single line of text on it, I will put my own text above and image below it, what I do not want is for the the price of the product to be displayed, when that button is clicked it goes to the cart page to checkout with the item placed into the cart and on the cart page the product price is displayed which is what I want there.
I have a button working as I want but the problem is the product price displayed on the sales page next to the button, and all the buttons I can find seem to use the [download_link] short code which displays the price next to the button, another button I found had the price in the button text which was still no good.
Is there some way to achieve this, a download button with no price displayed on it or near it.
Just checked the package link. Looks like you have sorted out the issue. Most probably your allow access settings field was empty or the user you were testing with didn’t have the access.
Please install the updated version of Download Manager to fix the license issue. You can download the latest version here https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/user-dashboard/?udb_page=purchases
Deactivate and delete the old version before installing the latest version. You won’t lose any data.
You can send temporary wp-admin login info in private reply if you need help with the update process.
Thanks.
Hi,
This requires a custom solution. Download Manager can replace the download link with a login button. But it doesn’t work the exact way you explained above.
Thanks.
It was a changed to serve direct download instead browser preview. But it seems the direct link generates temporary download link and has an expiration period. So, we will switch back tot he preview. Releasing update asap.
You have to create a custom template for cart template to remove some columns/fields. Please send FTP info, I can help you with that.
To remove the download column from all packages table just remove download_link from cols parameter. Check the shortcode doc here https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/doc/short-codes/wpdm_all_packages-list-all-downloads-in-tabular-format-in-a-page/
Hi Shah,
My WordPress says I have an update pending for your plugin. (4.7.7 to 4.7.8)
But when I update it gives an error. So I tried updating manually through FTP. I downloaded the installationfiles from my account here (https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/user-dashboard/?udb_page=purchases) and upload it trough FTP but then I get version 2.9.82??
How do I get the 4.7.8? Where can i download it manually? Can you link the latest update to this account?
Of email it to: Bas.smits@pixelbits.nl?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Bas
Looking through the templates and code, when using the iframe lock the download link looks like this
<a download="A1Marketreminders" class="wpdm-download-link __wpdm_download_btn__" rel="nofollow" href="#" onclick="this.href='https://mysite.com/user-submitted-apps-download/a1marketreminders/?wpdmdl=14012&refresh=5bdb5b8acdb5d1541102474';" target="_blank">Download</a>
There is the download attribute with a value, but it isn’t respected due to the on click being used to download the file, not the href.
With this setup, when you download the file you get the name of the zip itself, which in my case is a string IE “39421543498775.zip” instead of the name of the product itself in this case ‘A1Marketreminders’. This is causing issues for our users who want to know what they are downloading and see the .zip file reflect the name of the product. I have over 700 zip files that were created by another process and labeled with a unix time stamp – nothing I can do about that. How do I change the name of the file without being able to use the download attribute?
I made some changes in all downloads template file but it seems the updated is not reflected on the front. Maybe a cache issue.
Anyway, you have to create a template file for all downloads table to keep the changes even after the plugin update. Here is how you can do that,
1 ) Copy the /download-manager/tpls/wpdm-all-downloads.php file.
2 ) Place it in /active-theme/download-manager/ directory.
3 ) Replace echo $download_link; with echo "<a href='".\WPDM\Package::getDownloadURL($data['ID'])."'>Downloaden</a>"; in line no 339
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You can replace the title in cols with page_link to link the details page with the title. But template customization is required to add the download link in the title.
You have to copy the /download-manager/tpls/wpdm-all-downloads.php file and place it in the /active-theme/download-manager/ directory.
Then replace echo "<strong>".get_the_title()."</strong><br/>"; with
echo "<a href='".\WPDM\Package::getDownloadURL($data['ID'])."'><strong>".get_the_title()."</strong></a><br/>"; in the new template.
Hi mate. I downloaded it from below. Still says 1.2.0 although when you download its 1.2.2. If you have a look at the wpdm-dropbox.php it still says linkType: “direct”
Dropbox Explorer
I have tested both versions of Dropbox add-on. Worked fine without any issue. Could you please send me your package link to check the download? If it is possible, send temporary wp-admin login info too in private reply.
I tested with the email download link option too. That also worked fine as it did on your test. It is tough to solve an issue that I can’t reproduce. But the good thing is you are using instant download now, so I hope that solves the issue for those random users who faced the link expired error.
So I am using this code on one of my pages;
[wpdm_all_packages items_per_page="20" categories="safeguardingandstaff, curriculum, equality, other, fledglings" jstable=1 order_by="title" order="ASC" cols="title,file_count,download_count|download_link" colheads="Title|Download::300px"]
which exports out as shown in the picture.
Is there any way I can make the filename clickable so that people can then click on the file and view (i have the .pdf viewer).
Many thanks
Tom
I am using WPDM Pro and Premium Package 4.0.4
I am testing and setting up the purchase functionality of WPDM (first time user).
My issue (see attached image):
After completing a purchase transaction (with Pay by Cheque option), the user is sent to the order page (setup with shortcode: [wpdmpp_purchases]), where (I assume) the user should be able to download the purchased digital content.
1. The text “Single File Download” appears on the page, but there does not seem to be any active download link? The content can´t be downloaded.
2. There is for some odd “Message/Reply box” that appears on the bottom half of the page which is not responsive to user input and will not close?
Kindly advise if I have missed a setting somehow.
Thx
Thanks a lot Shariar for your help. I even manage to do further customizations from your advices. I still have some of the issues discussed not solved.
> Thanks for the custom link Template doc. I understand the global process but what I do not understand is how to apply the correct code to customize the template, as I do not see examples. For example you helped me to modify the Product title font size with <h2 style> but I did not manage to customize the Category name font size below even if I inspected the page code… So #wpdm-downloads * {font-size: 10pt;} is still controlling it.
> To protect the file class.Categories.php from updates, I would like to add it in my Child theme. I tried : Child Theme >download-manager > widgets> class.Categories.php or Child Theme >download-manager > class.Categories.php but it does not work, what is the correct path to customize the category widget file in Child Theme?
> You added [title] so now the title becomes a link, but the title is underlined on hover . I tried .w3eden a {
text-decoration: none !important;}
but this code also applies to the category name. How can I do to control only the title (product name) ?
> Concerning Page titles, I understand that when I create a page or a post my theme controls the title (besides it displays correctly in « page-title pad group » when I create a page or a post). But when I add a download using WPDM plugin, I believed that the plugin would be controlling the title.
Hope you will be able to help me with these issues,
best,
Audrey
Please insert the shortcode using TinyMCE Button add-on ( https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/download/advanced-tinymce-button/ ) Send temporary wp-admin login info in private reply if that doesn’t work.
There are no toolbar variations for category shortcode. You can either show or hide it. To show the toolbar you have to use toolbar=1
Here is a sample shortcode where columns worked for me,
[wpdm_category id="flat-ui,free-psd,locked,plugins," cols="3" toolbar=1 item_per_page=10 template="link-template-bsthumnail.php"]
