WordPress Download Monitor 3
Download Monitor 3 is upon us. Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links. So far it has been downloaded over 45,000 times!
New features in version 3 include shortcodes, better template tags, daily stats, download logs and more! Download monitor 3 requires at least WordPress version 2.5.
Links: Download Monitor Documenation | Plugin Directory Page
WordPress Download Monitor Plugin 3
By Mike Jolley ( http://www.blue-anvil.com )
About the plugin
The whole idea to this plugin is to keep your website downloads organised, and provide means to monitor the amount of downloads a file has, along with an easy method of linking to those files using special tags.
By adding a simple tag to a wordpress page you can show the link formatted however you want.
Features
- NEW: Built in Download Page function with built in sorting, pagination, and search. This was going to be a paid addon but i’m too nice – so please donate if you use it!
- Records file download hits but does **not** count downloads by wordpress admin users.
- Stats on downloads and a download log for viewing who downloaded when.
- Uses shortcodes (backward compatible with old [Download id not defined] style).
- Editor button – upload and add a download stright from a post.
- Custom redirects to downloads.
- Add downloads to text widgets, the content, excerpts, and custom fields.
- Mirror support (selected at random) + mirror deadlink checker
- Download Categories.
- Member only downloads, can also have a minimum user level using custom fields.
- Localization support.
- Admin for managing downloads and also changing hit counts – just in case you change servers or import old downloads that already have stats.
- Custom URL’s/URL hider using mod_rewrite.
Get it now!
You can get the latest version from the wordpress plugin database; Download it here!
You will also find installation/upgrade instructions on the wordpress.org plugin page. Remember to backup your database if upgrading just in case something does not go as planned.
Localization files
Need it in a different language? Some users have been kind enough to provide translation files. Note: I am not responsible for any of these localizations.
- Chinese translation
- Danish translation
- Japanese translation
- Italian translation
- Portuguese translation
- Hebrew translation
- French translation
- Turkish translation
- Ukrainian translation
- Spanish Translation
- Lithuanian Translation
- German Translation
- Dutch Translation
- Croatian Translation
- Norwegian Translation
- Russian Translation
- Czech localization
Documentation
There is a post dedicated to the documentation/manual which can be found here. Hope that helps!
Licence
WordPress Download Monitor Plugin v3 © Copyright 2009-current. All rights reserved.
Mike Jolley
You are free to use this application but may not redistribute it without written permission.
Use of this application will be at your own risk. No guarantees or warranties are made directly or implied.
The creators cannot and will not be liable or held accountable for damages, direct or consequential.
Support my sweat, blood and tears
I know, that sounds gross, but I really did put ALOT masses and masses and masses and masses of effort in to this plugin. If you like this plugin, or it has benefited you, please make a donation via paypal! Any amounts are welcome and your support is much appreciated.
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mark says:
Where’d the forum go?
Comment made on September 1, 2010 at 5:19 pm
MobileGround says:
hello ,
is there any way to make a waiting page when the user click on the file to download ??
because there is some visitors download the files without visiting my site .
Comment made on September 2, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Gaurav says:
Hello, this is a very interesting plugin. Thanks for sharing! I had a question, I’d like to require users to enter their name and email before downloading any documents. Is there a way to redirect to a form page, which on submit will set cookies that allow downloading the resources? Thanks!
Comment made on September 7, 2010 at 8:16 pm
voidtrance says:
Hi Mike,
Thank you very much for this plugin. I really like it and I’ve been using it for a while now.
However, I have a request: I was wondering whether there is a way to stop bot from loading the download URL directly or even following the links from my pages?
I’d like to stop webcrawlers from continuously downloading my files just from crawling the site.
Comment made on September 18, 2010 at 4:23 am
Mike Jolley says:
@Ryan: no
@OscarS: This won’t be added – in fact its pretty much feature locked because of plans for the next major version.
Comment made on September 18, 2010 at 10:41 am
Mike Jolley says:
@mark: Closed due to spam.
@MobileGround: Theres a hook in download.php – you’ll need to code your own solution for that.
@Gaurav: In the past i’ve done something similar by creating an intermediate form page which, after submission, redirects to the download. Its not built in though.
@voidtrance: Use a robots.txt file.
Comment made on September 18, 2010 at 10:44 am
John says:
Hi!
I have a private blog, and I want the downloads to be accessible only for the logged in users. The problem is that everyone can access the files througt direct links.. Can I put the files in a directory above the www-root? Are there some other ways to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance…
Comment made on September 26, 2010 at 8:31 pm
him says:
Hi,
I installed your popular plugin. And after a bit of tweaks, everything worked fine. Except, that clicking on the download arrow leads to another page where the player starts playing the file (music file) instead of download prompt that should come. Any suggestions how to resolve this?
Comment made on September 27, 2010 at 10:37 am
Mike Jolley says:
@John: Yes you can; upload the files manually, add using the file browser, and enable “force download”.
@him: Force it – option on edit screen
Comment made on September 27, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Tam says:
I installed this plugin for a friend on her blog which is hosted with godaddy. For some reason, when you click on the link to download the file, you are taken to a dialog to enter the ftp password instead of being able to download the file.
Any ideas what would cause this?
I use this plugin just fine on my own site.. but it is not hosted with godaddy.
Comment made on October 2, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Tam says:
Here is GoDaddy’s response to my ticket with them regarding this issue:
“It appears that this password prompt is caused by the particular URL you are using to download the file. The pop up for the password seems to be caused by either the .htaccess file you are using for the URL rewriting or a setting withing your WordPress application itself. You may want to review the WordPress help documentation available at the following URL for additional information regarding using WordPress. ”
The only restriction I have in the htaccess at this point is the one set by this plugin.
Any input would be great appreciated! Thanks.
Comment made on October 3, 2010 at 7:17 am
Kyle says:
I just recently installed your plugin on a site I’m developing and so far I am very pleased with it. I do have one question though:
Is there a way to restrict files users upload from other users until and admin allows it?
We have multiple users that will be uploading various documents to our site and we want to be able to look over and ok them before other users are allowed to download it. I don’t know if that possible but I thought I would at least ask.
Keep up the good work!
Comment made on October 4, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@Tam: Theres nothing DLM adds that would do that…
@Kyle: Thats not possible with the stock plugin; would require custom development – perhaps a custom uploader for other non-admin users.
Comment made on October 5, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Alexander says:
How can I show the upload form in the normal template?
Comment made on October 7, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Bob Randklev says:
I thought I had asked this before somewhere but never got a response. When we are developing a new WP site we use the “temporary web page address” which includes http://174.?.?.?/~domain and Download monitor doesn’t like and doesn’t work with the “~” in the URL.
When we switch over to a domain name all is fine.
Is this just the way it is or is there something we can change to make this work?
No worries either way, just want to know for future sites.
Comment made on October 7, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@Bob Randklev: ‘lo Bob. Which part breaks with the ~ – adding the files, or downloading the files?
Comment made on October 7, 2010 at 6:58 pm