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Hi, it is hard to replikate the solution if you do not tell me what it is… But after some try and error and comparing our code I think I found the answer myself, and it was very simple:

If I choose “All Downloads Table” from the meny I get this short shortcode below. There is also a “blank” column added automaticly in the right sidebar. (But the table does not show any files from start.):
<!– wp:download-manager/datatable /–>

I tried to add some columns and change a few options, but still no files were visible. My code now looked like this:
<!– wp:download-manager/datatable {“include_children”:true,”cols”:”title|categories|download_link”,”colheads”:”Title|Categories|Download”,”template”:”link-template-default.php”} /–>

I found the reason: After adding new columns I have to delete that first blank auto-added column, to make the table work. Only after deleting that initial empty column will files be visible.

So, problem solved I guess. And easy, when you know the answer.

Hi sorry for late reply, I have been away. I have now changed to a basic theme and in-activated every plugin but WPDM. But it is still not working, so it can not be a conflict.

Please, I need your help with looking at my WPDM settings. Maybe I have missed to check or change something for this to work?

Or something is actually wrong with the code for “All downloads table”?

Hi now I have set up a Staging site where I would be happy if you could check to see why no files are visible in the Gutenberg Block table. Since this is not a Live site you can test without any problem for our customers. But I need to be able to then replicate what you do, to solve the problem also on my Live site.

I give you password etc in private reply.

Do you know if maybe “WPDM Directory Add-on” is needed for the “All Downloads Table” (Gutenberg Blocks) to work? The table is there and I can choose categories, but no file is visible in the table list.

No, I wanted to try the new “All Downloads Table” that is part of your Gutenberg Blocks. Maybe that is the type of table I am looking for. https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/download/gutenberg-blocks/

I have been using wpdm_all_packages for many years, and that is working just fine. But I want a more modern type, with sorting, searching, filtering and so on. Like the one in Gutenberg blocks seems to be. (But it is not working yet.)

Hi yes I know there is a tree view. But in the demo I only see files in all the folders. Is it just as easy to add a specific short code to each folder, instead of files?

Hi Myron, just want to tell you are not alone.
For us WPDM is fine for normal PDF-file and other small files. But for heavy files I do not use it anymore, since our clients have been complaining a long time about slow speed and interupted downloads.
We have tried to solve it in many ways, but for now I put big files with a normal wordpress direct link (like a normal link to a media-file). Will look further for other solutions out there.

Solved! After update the file is gone. Good.

But feel free to enlighten me if you think it was malicious or just an old file. I am curious.

(I did update before from 4.9.8 to 5.0.1, but had to revert since I found a problem. Forgot that I had reverted.)

Same here. My license key will expire later this week and I will pay. But it seems like it already is not working. (Is it connected to that?) I am only on version 4.9.3, but will update soon.

Hi, have you had time to look at my issue? Can I de-activate your admin user?

If there is an answer and a solution to this, please share, as I have been wanting to have this irritating problem with downloading big files fixed for years…

Hi, I am waiting for a reply to this problem.

Also, I read that WordPress normally do not allow exe-files to be uploaded, due to security, would you recommend us to provide this file to our customers in another way? How??
Could your cloud storage extension be a solution to the slow/delayed download of this big exe-file?

Hi, our speed is set to 4096 (default I guess). How much can I increase it too?? Please tell me an exact speed number that works and don´t break the site or upset the web hotel for any reason.

(The speed is working for our PDF:s, but we have a big file of 80 MB that clients complain sometimes doesn´t even start to download.)

Hi, after looking at the code I see the fault is on me. Please help me to correct the code!!

Some years ago we customized the file “wpd-all-downloads.php” and put it in our child theme. But I now see our file is totally outdated, since WPDM have updated and changed the code in the php-file, last year I think. (I am surprised our modified file is still working at all…)

In the following code from wpdm-all-downloads.php I need your help to change two things:

case 'categories':
                                        echo "<span class='__dt_categories {$cxc}'>".$cats."</span>";
                                        break;
case 'update_date':
                                        echo "<span class='__dt_update_date {$cxc}'>".get_the_modified_date('', get_the_ID())."</span>";
                                        break;

I do not want “categories”. I want “Version” instead.
I do not want “Update date”. I want “File size” instead.

Can you please give me the changed code, so I dont mess it up.

Do I also need to add some changes anywhere else in the php-file to make this change work?!

Thanks you, now I finally know what can be done and what can not and why it behaves like that.

Solved.

Aha! Thank you, now it is finally clear. You should put that image in the documentation, at least it has not been obvious to me before.

But to me this is backwards…, if I could re-design this I would like the “big button” DOWNLOAD to represent “download this file” (=single or package =everything), because to me uploading a single file is the most normal case.
And there would not be any text-link at all, if that file is a single and not a package.
Only if that (“single”) file is actually a package of several files, then below it would be a list of simple text-links Download single file for each single file in that package-file, if someone for some reason want to download just one of those files contained in the package. Or, there could be boxes to tick next to each file in that package, “tick the single files you want from the packages, then hit download single files, if you do not want the whole package”.
The “big button” would still represent download this “single” file (with several files in it). Because if I do a package with several files, that would be becasue I want people to download them all at once, with one big button.
Just downloading part of my package would be an exception and not the normal case.

But that is just how I would like it to be, I guess other people use this feature in many other ways.

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By the way, on this doc-page: under “Single File download” the two demo-links are 404 Not found.
https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/doc/add-new-package/package-settings/

Good!