Hello,
Thanks for your purchase of wpdm.
1. The issue is forwarded to the developer team. Soon you will be updated
2. You are using a cache plugin w3cache that may cause the issue. The page currently shown is a cache version. If you deactivate the cache plugin and check the downloads, I hope there will be no reload issue.
However, could you please provide temporary admin access of your website to fix the issues quickly?
3. It can be fixed by adding custom css in link template. Let me know for further assistance. If possible, you can share temporary admin access in a private reply.
Regards
Tanvir
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Hello millermultimedia,
Sorry for the confusion and quite misunderstanding If you unmask the download link, bots will be able the find any public download link easily. If you want to hide the public link, you should use Mask Download Link, that information is also given in the settings too. I hope you have understood.
Thank you and regards
Thanks for the quick reply back. I understand the requirements for Google to update their index. From what I am seeing in Google Search Console the issue is that GoogleBot is seeing WP Download Manager links like the following:
https://myurl.com/download/2022-my-document/?wpdmdl=1190&refresh=63518588bddff1666286984
This link is different each time Google indexes the pages on the site because the refresh parameter is different each time they index a page. To Googlebot the link is different and therefor needs to be indexed. Because of this Google says I am currently at 70,000 un-indexed pages, which are all download links to the same 40 PDFs I have in Download Manager. Is there a way in Download Manager to have that one refresh parameter removed from the links being displayed? If not I will look into adding a jQuery function to the site to remove it as it is not needed for the link to work. If the Unmasking Download Link is supposed to remove the parameter it is not working. This is with the latest Download Manager and WordPress.
Thanks!
Hello millermultimedia,
After changing settings you have to wait 0-30 days for no indexing as per google instructions. I hope it will work fine then for the masking Download Link too. I hope you have understood. please check.
Thank you and regards
I am having the same issue. GoogleBot going crazy indexing the same PDFs over and over due to the random refresh parameter being added to the URL. I tried the Unmask Download Link and this did not remove the parameter. I also tried switching to a file uploaded to the WordPress Media library, this did not help. I then tried the Beta feature to activate flat download URL. For both the Download Manager and Media files I get a Page Not Found error. I have tested with the site cache off.Cleared my browser cache.Not sure where to go from here. I do not want to noindex the PDF downloads although may need to for now as Google is putting a significant load on the server from all of the downloading.
Hello,
You can use the below shortcode for single package.
[wpdm_package] – Single Package Embed Short-code
You have to use a link template that will be used in that shortcode. In the link template you have to make sure the download button has the direct download link template tag. For link template and templates tags you can follow this doc.
Here you can check the available built in link templates also you can use them or modify them to use.
Let me know please for further assistance.
Regards
Tanvir
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Hello,
We’d like to skip the single file page (ie /download/filename/) and download the file(s) instead. These would most likely be links from other pages that have not been rendered within a WPDM shortcode. Is that possible?
Thank you.
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Hello,
We are running Download Manager version 6.2.6 and we purchased an addon for Amazon S3 to connect to our storage. I think 2-3 weeks now, the Amazon S3 addon no long working. In the ‘Updates’, it show ‘Install’ button when it should have been already installed and when I tried to run the installation, it ran and show me ‘Success’ message, and less than 2 min, it turn back to ‘Install’ again. I tried to re-install the addon- Amazon S3 again, and Download Manager once again, remove it after couple minutes.
Your help is much appreciated.
Sandra
Hello, a couple of questions.
1.- I need that the download/view link of a document opens in a new tab. Is it possible?
2.- I have activated the option Show form once in a session but it only works if the user wants to download several times the same document. I need it to be for all the documents, is it possible?
Hi,
I am not able to provide a proper link because all of my /downloads are private by default of Ultimate Member. But here’s a screenshot of what I’m talking about. The one encircled with red, how can we remove that via CSS maybe or a setting?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p2BBaOBf1wxUrCJRZHEMQ7PGYuRd_3VJ/view
Because if someone clicks that popout button, they can just copy the URL and share the Google URL outside and it’s accessible publicly.
Here’s the link that can pops-out after clicking that button and anyone can access it: https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://cashflowproject.ca/download/1-survey-list-all-in-one/?ind%3D0%26filename%3D1.-Survey-List-All-In-One.pdf%26wpdmdl%3D466%26refresh%3D634b821a01d9e1665892890%26open%3D1
Thanks
And how to make it so that previously downloaded files also receive direct download links?
Hello,
Thanks for contacting WPDM Support forum.
To get direct download links, please upload files using select from media library this feature .
However, remember it is default WordPress upload feature and wpdm has no control over it.
Regards
Tanvir
I am using this shortcode
[wpdm_all_packages login=1 thumb=1 items_per_page="20" categories="comunicados,..." jstable=1 order_by="field_name" order="ASC/DESC" cols="title,file_count,download_count|categories|update_date|download_link" colheads="Title|Categories|Update Date|Download::155px"]
Hello Jorge,
You have to use categories parameter in the shortcode.
categories: use the parameter if you want to show the table for specific category or categories.
example shortcode: [wpdm_all_packages login=1 thumb=1 items_per_page="20" categories="slug1,slug2,..." jstable=1 order_by="field_name" order="ASC/DESC" cols="title,file_count,download_count|categories|update_date|download_link" colheads="Title|Categories|Update Date|Download::155px"]
More details below:
[wpdm_all_packages] – List all downloads in tabular format in a page
Let me know please for further assistance.
Regards
Tanvir
Thanks, Nayeem. I wondered if the Filebase Importer should be moving the Filebase files to the ‘download-manager-files’ directory. If not, can you recommend a way to do this after the packages have been created by the importer?
Please see our exchange at the top of the thread:
You: “Our WP-Filebase Data Importer add-on is a very old add-on and for many days still, it is not updating, so we are checking the issue and soon, you shall be updated.”
You: “BTW, Can you please let me know, Are you facing only issue with moving files to the download-manager-files directory and updating the links issue, please let me know”
Me: “Thanks for looking into this. The importer works fine – it creates copies of the WPFBP posts as new WPDM posts referencing the files in the filebase directory. I’m not sure if this is expected behaviour. It would just be useful to remove this directory and have all the files in one place when we update or add them in future.
It would also be useful to copy the categories over, but it’s not too much trouble to do this manually.”
Hello,
First I have installer free Download Manager and I have linked to my Dropbox in creating an app successfully. But since I have installed WPDM Pro, when I select a file from my Dropbox in Package editing, the button “Select from Dropbox’ do nothing.
I have tried to unactivate the dropbox plugin also download manager, even to uninstall them and install again.
The button “Select from Dropbox” do nothing.
Please help me,
Nicolas
Hello fiddla,
BTW, Can you please let me know, Are you facing only issue with moving files to the download-manager-files directory and updating the links issue, please let me know
Thank you and regards
Is there a way to change the default link template used? Iwould like to use a different template for all download links and use that one for all future downloads. I have searched the docs but can’t find anything about setting a default. Thanks!
Hi
I just tested the Filebase importer add-on which has imported our filebase posts but left the files in the ‘filebase’ directory (which sits alongside the ‘download-manager-files’ directory). Can you recommend a way to move them all to the ‘download-manager-files’ directory and update the links, please, or is it best done directly in the DB?
Thanks very much.
They are bot downloads, or downloads from an external websites that are hotlinking to your files.
Solution:
You can use a cloudflare security WAF rule to block URI requests that contain the word “wpdmdl” and does not have a cookie that contain the word “wp”.
Hello Jude Hamid,
I have seen that you are using a locked package here on the commercial evaporators page, however, for the locked package download button image structure will be like this,
<a href="#unlock" class="wpdm-download-link wpdm-download-locked btn btn-primary btn-lg" data-package="1101"><img src="https://ftc-qatar.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/download_button.png"></a>
and the general download button, it should be like,
<a href="[download_url]" class="btn btn-primary"><img src="https://ftc-qatar.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/download_button.png"></a>
so it will be very difficult for you and you have to create the individual templates for individual packages. However, we had a button image add-on which is deprecated now, but we are adding the button image feature in the PRO plugin soon. I hope you have understood.
Thank you and regards
Hello Jude Hamid,
I can’t able to access the Downloads > Template section with the above credentials. Can you put the below code snippet in your page/link templates if it works for you,
<a class="button" style="display: block; text-align: center;" href="[#download_url#]">https://ftc-qatar.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/download_button.png</a>
please check and let me know
Thank you and regards
