Mike Cooper

Any updates on when we might see this new feature?

I’ve manually installed 5.0.5 and the new brows interface works great. Looks much nicer too!

Thank you!

Version 5.0.5 also fixes the issue for me. I had to manually download from wpdownloadmanager.com as it still was not showing as an option on my sites /plugins page as an update. It seems like it has not been pushed to the wordpress.com plugins system.

I’m not able to see version 5.0.5 as available for download when I go to Dashboard > Updates.

We are seeing the same thing. All pages under /wp-admin are 3+ minutes to load or time-out. Disabling wpdm fixes this.

No changes to WP in 3+ weeks.

Running WPDM 5.0.4 on WP 5.3.2.

This is VERY URGENT for us as our customers use Download Manager to get our product.

Any updates on when the new release will be out with the fix? I’m checking daily but haven’t seen a new release.

Fantastic!

I’m still not seeing 5.0.4 available when I go to /wp-admin > Plugins and click “Check for updates”.

My site was autoupdated to WordPress 5.3.2 and the problem is still present. So still looks to be a WPDM bug with WP 5.3.x.

We can’t upload any updates to our site for our customers so this is a significant issue for us.

mike

This problem occurs in both Firefox and Chrome so its not likely an browser issue.

Awesome! Thanks for listening and hearing! 🙂

I would urge you to reconsider making this a new column flag feature in the CSV or a Setting under Downloads > Settings.

There are several downsides to making this a hook in functions.php:
1) This feature is not exposed and available to other WPDM users. I’m sure some other users will want this though not everyone will.
2) If there is an update to the theme the hook will be silently lost and have to be 1) discovered missing and then 2) re-added.

I hope you will reconsider.

Best regards,
mike

Hi Shahriar,

Still not sure what you mean by hook but I hope its something we can enable as a setting in Downloads > Settings or something we can add to the CSV. Basically something that will survive each time the WPDM version is updated.

We will hold off developing our own code to use this feature until we see how you have implemented in a future release. If you remember to it would be great if you updated this thread once it was released.

Cheers,
mike

I definitely understand the need to not change the default behavior your existing customers expect. That was one reason why I suggested having another column which was a flag to enable this new behavior.

So when you say “add a hook” does that mean you will do that via a new column flag or some other way? What’s the timeframe for you to have a release out with that in it?

Thanks again for listening!

Hi Shahriar,

Thank you for that code! I applied it and it does work. That’s fantastic!

What version of WPDM will this be included in?

Just wanted to check back and see if you had any thoughts on if you can/will implement this.

Cheers,
mike

Will there be a command line export command? Without that it’s still a manual process for us to open browser, navigate to Downloads, run the export, save the file.

What we really need is that additional column that the importer uses to determine if an entry with the same title exists to ignore that row. That seems simple enough that it should require only a few lines of code in your importer. Of course as a developer its usually more than a few lines of code but it still shouldn’t be too much.

I appreciate the suggestion but that would require frequently manually grabbing the IDs directly or via manual export. The point of this for us is to automate the import process.

I don’t think that will work for us then. That means when we add an item for the first time (no ID column) we must somehow get back its assigned ID value to then store and use it in a future csv file import. The only way for that to happen is to be able to run the bulk importer from the command line on the wordpress host and parse the output to find the newly assigned ID. I’m guessing that’s not possible.

Would be much easier if the CSV had a column which said if “title” matches any existing item in download items then do not import.

I tried adding an ID column but when I do the import does not work. I see the plugin reports success and no error but afterwards the item is not found when I look under All Downloads.

Here’s is a link to the csv: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_YgupNMxbyBhrHQcEwS07j3q0BEPAme/view?usp=sharing

To followup on my last request about bulk import without creating duplicates… What I think would be easy (that’s always relative :)) for you and give us what we need is if there’s another column in the csv that if set to say “nodup” or a simple “1” would tell the bulk importer to ignore that row if the “file” has already been imported (e.g. there’s a download item with the same file name and/or title.

This is really important for us to keep using this plugin. We need to automate the import process as the manual process does not scale.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Another key question… If I import from csv and the same item already exists then the import creates a new download item. Is there someway to tell the importer to not do this?

I want to create a csv that has dozens of rows and then import that csv. Only some of the rows will change from time to time. What we are doing is building new product releases and want to build a single csv for all files in that release then use Bulk Import on that csv file. We need the importer to skip over any row which has the same File name.

I filled in description and the import works. Thanks!

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