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Got it. I’ll be watching for the auto-update feature, that seems the norm for 98% of the WP plugins I’ve ever installed. If the WPDM plugins are not updated normally, what is the method? I understand I need to download the new version. Do I then just install it as if the existing plugin wasn’t there? Will it keep all of my configuration settings? Do I have to manually deactivate or reactivate anything during the process? Is there a page on the WPDM site that explains any of this? The link in my WP site just goes to the purchase page.

Thanks Shaon. I just checked it again too. I forgot that I had left the page with the default short code example from the ‘purchase’ page. I went in and changed the page to be more similar to what we would use. (Following is the current short code)

`[wpdm-archive category=”-1″ button_style=”danger” link_template=”link-template-calltoaction1″ order_by=”post_title” order=”asc” items_per_page=”10″]

I also attached a screenshot of what I’m seeing (Firefox 37.0.1, MacOSX 10.9.5).

I was able to verify that the following ARE working.
– Parameters: Button Color, Sort Order, Asc/Dsc

However, the following appear to NOT be working.
– Parameters: Category: I had set this to only show the ‘Logo’ category. As you can see, it is showing ALL Categories.
– SubCategories: I see there is a pull-down arrow on the ‘Marketing’ button, which is correct, but the arrow doesn’t do anything? How do you show SubCategories?
– Columns: Is there any way to dictate the number of columns used? The Category buttons use 3-column, but the actual items don’t seem to follow the buttons – they only use 2-column.
– Item Display: For some reason the listing of the items sometimes leaves a big gap?

Could you please let me know how I can resolve these issues? Thanks!

Thanks for the reply. I’m a bit confused. My initial statement was…
When I started using WPDM, FTP uploading image files to a folder other than the default ‘download-manager-files’ and then using the ‘Bulk Import’ tool to ‘Import Selected Files’, would automatically copy those files to the ‘download-manager-files’ folder and have the proper file format icon linked to them.

Your response was…
You will not have to copy files manually to download-mamager-files dir except there are some dir write permission issue in your server.

I might have mistakenly taken that to mean that what I was proposing, and what I had success with before (use ‘Import Selected Files’ to move files from an initial upload folder to the final folder), was what you were saying should be standard functionality. In fact, what you might have been referring to was the ability to FTP upload files directly into ‘download-manager-files’. To be clear, I DO have that ability. The reason I chose to upload files to a different folder first was because it was difficult/time consuming to scroll through a huge list of files in the ‘download-manager-files’ folder to find the ‘new’ ones to select for ‘Import Selected Files’.

Maybe what you are saying is that the normal procedure should involve using the CSV for the import process. Is there any place that talks in more detail about the CSV import file? After looking at it several times, I’m unclear about what I should be placing in the different fields/columns.

Thanks for your help.

If you think that wp-admin access would still be helpful, let me know and I will ‘private reply’ those credentials.

Sorry for continuing to add posts.

My goal is to allow the following.
– Upload files via FTP to a folder other than ‘download-manager-files’.
– Add the files to WPDM via the ‘Bulk Import’ tool.
– Have the ‘added’ files moved from the upload folder to the ‘download-manager-files’.
– Have the correct ‘file format icon’ assigned to the files.

I’m looking for help to get this to work properly. If the folder permissions need to be 644, I’ll change them if I can (it appears, 744 is as close as I can get?). If 755 is fine, then I would like suggestions on what else might get this working again.

Thanks for your help. It is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the details Shaon. I have set the /download-manager-files folder to 644 (was set to 755). When you say make the /download-manager/cache folder ‘writable’, do you mean that should also be set to 644? Currently its set to 755.

I just noticed that one of the main questions in this thread (because it is a problem instead of a feature request) wasn’t answered.

When I started using WPDM, FTP uploading image files to a folder other than the default ‘download-manager-files’ and then using the ‘Bulk Import’ tool to ‘Import Selected Files’, would automatically copy those files to the ‘download-manager-files’ folder and have the proper file format icon linked to them.

At some point after installing a WPDM add-on, that functionality changed. Now when I do that same process, the file format icon gets linked, but the files do not get copied to ‘download-manager-files’ which results in the download link breaking. If I manually move the files into the ‘download-manager-files’ folder via FTP, the download link is fixed, but then the icon link is broken and I have to manually reassign the icon.

Is this ‘normal’ behavior? Is there anything I can do to get the original functionality back (automatically moving files to the proper folder and icon linking them)?

Out of curiosity, is this forum run on a WordPress plugin? If so, do you mind sharing what plugin is used? BBpress?

Thanks for the info Tauhid. Any idea on when the next feature might be released?