Yes, it is possible. Use a link template without [page_url] template tag. Just clone the link template you are using now and remove the [page_url] tag from there. Now when inserting package use this custom link template.
This is now an extremely urgent issue and I’ve now been waiting for 6 WEEKS for someone to get back to me. Ignoring my requests for help is completely unprofessional.
I have had an issue now for 6 weeks but now it is causing me some major problems with our new release of a product and it needs resolving ASAP.
The problem is that we can create a package with no issues and use Facebook likes, Google+ etc and that works fine, however there are two issues that will not work at all:
1) The Twitter Follow button pops up with the Twitter box to allow the person to follow us but it does not allow the download. Instead they get a permission-denied.txt file and within that text that says: “You don’t have permission to download this file”. However, if we use the Twitter Tweet button, that works fine.
Looking at the download link for when the downloader gets the txt error file it is:
This is an extension of the last post made to the website. Every time we post something new, that link changes to the new post with the /wpdmdl…etc at the end of it, but always downloads the TXT file.
A correct download link for it should look like this:
Hi, You can disable package download link and use only individual download button. Custom link template required for this setup. Copy any link temlate and remove [download_link] template tag from there and use [file_list] tag.
Thank you for the clarification. But I’m disappointed. I really don’t understand why you link users to a OneDrive account. I mean, they just need to download a file without the need to know where the file is hosted. As a matter of fact this leads to security issues because the Admin’s OneDrive account can be hacked. On the other hand, why users should have a OneDrive account?
This addon is completely illogical. I’m sorry to say that but you should revise it completely. 🙂
I thank you for the solution. Now the button hooks to OneDrive and I can associate a file to a new post/download.
There’s only one problem: when a user clicks on the download link he’s redirected to OneDrive account. Is this how’s supposed to be? Because I think that the user should just get the file instead of going to the Admin’s OneDrive account.
I did find that one of the issues was spaces in the filename. That has been corrected.
Re: downloading, it makes no sense to me that clicking download will lead me to a page where the file is played by my browser. That doesn’t seem to be an S3 issue (maybe it is?)
I’m not confused about icons or link templates. This makes sense to me.
What doesn’t make sense is that in one scenario, I can click on “play” to play a file, and in another that option does not appear. This is for .mp3 files that are both on S3.
Download Manager redirects user to S3 file when download button is clicked. WPDM can’t control they way file is served. You have to add file locally if you want the download button to download file (mp3) on click Download button. There might be some option in S3 to show download link instead of playing it.
You can set package icon when bulk importing packages. Put the icon url under icon column in csv file. You can also set icon from package settings. It looks like you have some confusion about link template. Please let me know if you have any specific question about templates.
Error in some packages are being caused by an extra space in generated download link. One possible reason, maybe some other plugin modifying output. Try disabling other plugins to be sure. However, We will check thoroughly in our code, if there is any issue found, i will let you know and release an update soon.
I wanted to share this even though this is an old thread — in case someone else is looking for this solution (like I was).
I did not find a way to do this within the tool, but it is pretty easy to do if you are willing to edit the wpdm-extended-shortcodes plugin. I normally would never recommend updating a plugin like this (because any change will be lost when the plugin is updated), but it was an emergency for me and may be for you…
Open the wpdb-extended-shortcodes.php file
Find the wpdm_embed_tree() function and scroll down toward the bottom of that function (in the version I’m using (2.6.0), this is around line 470).
and edit it to look like this: “a href='” . get_permalink(get_the_ID()) . “?wpdmdl=”.get_the_ID().”‘ rel='” . get_permalink(get_the_ID()) . “?wpdmdl=”.get_the_ID().”‘”
Basically, you’re just adding “?wpdmdl=[the post ID]” to each link.
NOTE: this will likely NOT work with login-protected downloads (there should also be a nonce that is not being included) but if you are just offering publicly accessible files, it should be fine.
It also seems like this would be a fairly easy update that could be made an option in the tool (hint… hint…).
Hi, yes i see, the problem is when i go to the startpage “www.dosspiele.eu” on this site all correct left sidebar the RED download buttons are there. all ok, when i click on the link CROWDFOUNDING in the menu the Download button left side changes on its own in BLUE Download buttons. And i dont now why.
Link Template code is wrapped inside w3eden class to apply plugin specific css. code inside w3eden comes from link template. You can create custom link template from Downloads Templates page.
I purchased the WordPress Download Manager Special Pack which has the directory addon listed, but I do not see it listed in the download. this is what I got.
Empty Categories – Frontend Upload shows all categories. I have checked your installation. You are using custom templates there. If you did not do it,maybe some other guy customized it. In default templates upload page shows all categories.
Tags – You can use Directory addon to show all tags. Each tag link to their archive page. We will add more features soon to make tags more accessible.
Is it possible setting the PRO version up, so one can view the file online, instead of forcing downloading the file? Maybe via a shortcode for “link to the actual file”, via the settings (where I cannot seem to find such a thing), or via a plugin.
When I view the category sidebar widget it shows how many docs in each category however when I click on the link it returns a blank page. I have noticed the link in the display page works but is a different link than the sidebar widget