Simon Frost

I also have a closely related question, but to do with the wpdm_tree shortcode that comes from the WPDM Extended Shortcodes add-on.

This is the code I’m using to generate a file tree:
[wpdm_tree newwin=1 download_link=1 category="about-us"]

I was looking at the code to work out where to put the target=_blank code so that these links would open in a new tab as well, and while in the PHP file I found an undocumented shortcode parameter called newwin which appears to add the target=_blank to the generated link tree.. except it doesn’t work. I can see in the page source that target="_blank" is part of the <a tag, but when I click the link it opens in the same window anyway. Is there JavaScript somewhere that’s overriding this?

Thanks so much for your help here!

Hi Humayon,
Thanks so much for that code – I applied it to the file and it is working.

I just want to confirm how I would go about relocating the edited file elsewhere so the change survives plugin upgrades? Similar to the original response in this thread, would I create a folder within the child-theme called wpdm-button-templates and put the edited file there?

Hi Nayeem, I am working on this project with Arianna and am trying to make these changes. I understand what you’ve written, but as we’re using the WPDM Button Templates add-on I think the template file is located elsewhere – it’s probably coming from plugins/wpdm-button-templates/wpdm-button-templates.php

The trouble I have now is that the [download_link] text is in code like this:

if(!wpdm_is_locked($id) && wpdm_user_has_access($id)){
  return "<a href='".wpdm_download_url($package)."'>{$html}</a>";
} else
  return FetchTemplate("[download_link]", $package);

I’m not sure how to replace or modify this without breaking the code – I’m not a PHP developer so I’m just using educated guesses here.