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Hey,
I was hoping you could help me figure a way to prevent people hotlinking the specific download page or perhaps even disabling the download “post” altogether. I only ever put downloads on the front-end via shortcode anyways.
Thanks!
Hi there,
I understand your problem. Hotlink can be disabled from hosting provider by editing the htaccess file of apache hosting.
You can follow this tutorial for more info. You also can use WordPress plugin describe here. But it better to disable it from CDN or hosting level.
Article: Hotlink Prevention
Let me know if I can do anything else.
Thanks.
Okay, a bigger problem I have is also that I have multiple downloads on the same page but some are hidden by another plugin. These downloads can’t be accessed through the F12 console or similar, but if the person simply knows the permalink they can get to the download page. (I have the downloads set to be accessible only by Admin and Subscriber and all other users are subscribers). Would there be a way to hide the post pages on user by user basis or completely?
by post page I mean the page the permalink sends you to.
You can use custom link template to insert shortcode that won’t link to the package details page. So, there will be no link to start with. Just clone any link template and remove [page_url] template tag from there. Thus custom link template feature is available in Pro version of Download Manager.
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