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Is there a way to know how many people clicked on the deals that take you to external link? Or to show how many people opened the deals page, and then how many clicked out to the external url? I am struggling to find those stats as most of the stats are around downloads.
Thanks!
Nrupesh
We’ve been experiencing ongoing issues with PDFs not previewing, specifically when hit with a large amount of traffic to the page. The issue presents with PDFs not previewing and getting an error saying
An error occurred while loading the PDFfollowed by really slow site loading and downloading speeds. This does seem to be tied to the plugin unable to render during high traffic times because when I force logout all users, PDFs begin to load again.We have a specific page on our site where about 140 of our highest viewed packages are linked and we have had to bypass the PDF previews completely in order to keep our site running. Rather than linking to the resource page with the PDF preview, we are now linking directly to the file URL in the wp-content folder in the browser to enable our clients to preview, access and download these important packages. This is just a band-aid and cannot be a long-term solution as it is a security risk.
I’ll follow this message up with login details and more specifics. We really need to figure this out as not being able to preview and having the site slow down is significantly impacting our ability to do business. Download Manager is the core functionality of our site and we don’t want to find another solution, but we may need to start looking if we can’t get this resolved.
I’ve opened a previous thread on this and am linking for context: https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/support/topic/urgent-continued-fatal-errors/
I’ve got a site where the flat archive shortcode is not working – I’ve tested plugin/theme issues by changing to the 2024 WordPress theme & disabling all the plugins except the WP Download plugin.
Here’s a link to a test page I’ve got running (currently still the 2024 theme & no additional plugins)
https://soff.org/staging/shortcode-test/Here is the shortcode that I need working:
[wpdm_archive_flat category=”soff-newsletters” include_children=1 order_by=”post_title” order=”desc” items_per_page=”999″]This shortcode is from another site that has a simpler category structure — it is working perfectly (https://savethewhiskers.org/resources/) — if you look at my test page, you’ll see it is one of the shortcodes that is not working.
[wpdm_archive_flat order_by=”post_title” order=”asc” items_per_page=”999″]I place links to package documents on my site using the Download Manager short codes. Each package contains only a single PDF. I want a link template that points directly to the PDF on the server, e.g. the link should be “…/myurl/wp-content/uploads/download-manager-files/mypackagedocument.pdf”. Instead, the link is the Download Manager short code, e.g. “…/myurl?wpdmdl=16123&ind=17150293486941”, and each time the link is accessed a new url is created with a unique ?refresh parameter added. Can I easily create a template (or does one exist) that would allow me to link directly to the PDF on the server?
We use the RSS feed facility of Download Manager for several of our sites. The current reader is based in ColdFusion, and works just fine, but we’re moving to a WordPress-based reader (Feedzy), and this sees the Download Manager feed as invalid. The error is:
Sorry, some part of this feed is currently unavailable or does not exist anymore. The detailed error is https://sites.clarku.edu/business-docs/downloads/payroll-forms/feed/ is invalid XML, likely due to invalid characters. XML error: EntityRef: expecting ‘;’ at line 188, column 288Testing with https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi throws the error “Self reference doesn’t match document location“, and highlights the offending line:
<atom:link href="https://sites.clarku.edu/business-docs/downloads/payroll-forms/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />We’re on the latest version of Download Manager Pro (6.5.3), and our WordPress version is 6.5.3. Is there any way to fix this?
Regards
Mark Pemburn
Web Application Administrator
Clark UniversityHI,
Can you advise on how we can disable the singular and page link from the shortcode: [wpdm_all_packages]
I’ve found the code:
case ‘page_link’:
//echo “” . get_the_title() . “<br/>”;
echo “<span class=\”package-title\”>” . get_the_title() . “</span><br/>”;
break;Which is on line: 345-348 in the file: /download-manager/src/Package/views/all-packages-shortcode.php
But i don’t like to modify plugin files as these will get updated over time and re-introduce the link.
Can you advise on the best way to do this please?

