After a first customer complaint about downloads not any more reachable, I did an effort to find some solution or at least workaround. I found actually two things:
1) On the page that was supposed to show download packages “by category”, there was a widget “WPDM CatPackages” that was reported as “missing”. Maybe that was part of the previous versions of WPDL?? In any case, I looked into available widgets and found “WPDM Packages by Category”, and it turned out that this one is actually the one that I need! So by replacing the one widget by the other, the functionality of the different download packages by category came back.
I believe that this is good to know also for other potentially affected customers: Looks like some compatibility was broken here!
2) Download for specific customers was achieved by using the code [wpdm_my_downloads] with some parameters (Looks like these codes are actually the “short codes”: learning learning – some “web programmer slang”…). One of these parameters was template=”something”, and this seems to be the thing that did not work any more: I removed that parameter, and now the customer specific download list is appearing again in a new design.
This could be due to my attempt to block some “Next”/”Prev” buttons that were actually punching a “hole” into the customer specific download because a customer could use these buttons to easily get access to the downloads of other customers! More or less the worst case scenario for a module like “Advanced Access Control” that I am using. Anyway, it looks like this “hole” is not any more there with the new version and also without the template.
Bottom line: at the moment it looks like the problems were solved, but some update of the website was required with that version 6.0 update!
