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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Mike Jolley says:
@Flick: It *should* retain the data, but if its a super old version then there probably will be problems.
I would say (if its a large DB of downloads), restore the backup then rename the downloads table, run the ‘re-create’ option so you can see the new table structures, then manually modify the renamed tables so they are compatible with the latest version.
You can then rename them back and fingers crossed you’ll be up to date.
Comment made on October 28, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Flick says:
@Mike Jolley: Thanks for your prompt (and helpful) reply! I honestly cannot remember what version it was now (silly me) but I used the automatic upgrade option as I was upgrading several plugins at once just after upgrading to 2.8.5.
I think this must be a server setting (PHP5.2.11), but I’ve found that when I click on the ‘re-create’ button, the message says the table has been created (I’m assuming wp_DLM_###) butI can never find it in the database, so I cannot add new categories etc.
As I’m sure I have used the ‘re-create’ option (thanks for clarifying it does retain the data!) before without issues, I am now feeling quite stupid and lost. Is there anything other info I should provide for troubleshooting?
Sorry about the hassle!
Comment made on October 28, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Flick says:
Hello again! Just an update to say that I edited the SQL queries in wp-download_monitor (3.1.5) and ran them in phpMyadmin as for some reason, re-create database didn’t want to actually create the tables! Not sure if it’s a mySQL version issue?
Comment made on October 29, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@Flick: Possibly. You could turn on debug mode and see if any errors crop up during the re-creation? Add (temporarily) to your wp config file:
define('WP_DEBUG', true);Comment made on October 30, 2009 at 12:32 am
Ricardo Ribeiro says:
Hi
I am using Download Monitor 3.2.3. When i add a file to be downloaded by members only, it does not work even for admin or any users. It gives message ‘Download path is invalid!’.
If i remove the options for members only then everything works fine.
My blog is in a sub-directory.
Is there any solution?
Thanks
Ricardo
Comment made on December 5, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@Ricardo Ribeiro: I want to diagnose this problem as a few others have reported it (it may just be your settings) – if you send me a temporary admin account/ftp via email Ill login and do some tests.
Comment made on December 6, 2009 at 10:41 am
Ricardo Ribeiro says:
@Mike Jolley: Inform your mail. Thanks.
Comment made on December 9, 2009 at 4:07 am
Ricardo Ribeiro says:
@Mike Jolley
Admin account to tests sent by the contact form.
Comment made on December 9, 2009 at 4:15 am
rumburak says:
Is it possible to improve the security of files to download? Currently, even if you set an option only for logged in users, just to know the direct link to the file to download it without authentication. I wonder whether it is possible to enhance the security of uploaded files are available only for logged in users.
Maybe there is an increasing security plug-in uploaded files?
Comment made on December 10, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@rumburak: Not that I know off. But if you are using member only downloads, and they are being forced, the user should not even see the direct link.
Comment made on December 12, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Santa Clause says:
@Mike Jolley: Hello Mike. Great plugin. I have yet to use it extensively however I plan to as soon as the elves are out of my beard. I am, unfortunately, now seeing “Download path is invalid!” when adding existing files from the server to the downloads page.
If you would like a temp admin account to do some testing I will be more than happy to provide you with one.
Merry Christmas.
With regards,
Santa Clause
Comment made on December 25, 2009 at 2:36 am
Mike Jolley says:
@Santa Clause: Dear Santa, This is to do with the member option/forcing downloads. Turn of forcing for now (custom fields called ‘force’ set to 0, and hopefully the next version will clear up your issue.
p.s. where was my pony
Comment made on December 28, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Astrophonica says:
Hi there. Great plug in. Is it possible to see how people came to my site and where from and so on? When i click on ‘log’ i just get an IP address that takes me to ws.arin.net and i don’t really know how to use the information.
Thanks
Comment made on January 2, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@Astrophonica: The IP address (and user ID if logged in) is all it gathers. ws.arin just gives you information on the IP address. If you want other stats then you should use something like google analytics.
Comment made on January 2, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Hans says:
Hi,
I use WP 2.9.1, Download Monitor 3.2.3 and Contact Form 7 (2.1).
When I add a new download in editor, I get this error-message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpcf7_add_tag_generator() in /var/kunden/webs/userxxx/html/wp/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/modules/text.php on line 129
When I deaktive Contact Form 7, there is no error.
I use now si-contact-form and there is now error.
Hope, that help
Comment made on January 16, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Andy Ruffell says:
Is it possible to use the style/template that you are using on here Mike? As it looks a bit different, as you can see the main section is over to the right – http://www.eteknix.com/downloads/?did=3
I want it to look like the way that you have it on here.
Thanks,
Andy
Comment made on February 1, 2010 at 11:12 am
Mike Jolley says:
@Hans: Probably the other plugins fault :p It should check for its function before calling.
@Andy Ruffell: You only have to adjust the width of the right section with css.
Comment made on February 1, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Andy Ruffell says:
@Mike Jolley: I did that earlier. I’m guessing you’re talking about download-monitor/page-addon/styles.css and changing the div.main-section from 316? Can i ask what yours is changed to?
Also, upon changing that, i want the Version, Date posted, Downloaded etc… all moved to the left too.
Thanks,
Andy
Comment made on February 1, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@Andy Ruffell: Moved to the left? Hmm that may require editing the files and is beyond css.
FYI you can inspect my CSS styles easily using Firebug (firefox) or the built in inspector in safari/chrome.
Comment made on February 2, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Andy Ruffell says:
@Mike Jolley: Hi Mike, i had a look through but couldn’t find any differences.
I will show you a picture so you can see the difference between the two with the big gap between the thumbnail and the text and how the text isn’t aligned.
Take a look and you’ll see what i mean
Comment made on February 2, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Andy Ruffell says:
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/166/downloadsll.jpg
Comment made on February 2, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@Andy Ruffell: It might just be your themes css affecting it. Anyway, you can add your own rules in the themes css file easily enough, example, in mine i have:
div.main-section {width:406px !important;
}
Comment made on February 3, 2010 at 2:11 pm
shecky says:
Hi Mike!
I use your wonderful plugin in my site.
In my site I have some files linked to external url.
In last version (3.3.3.4) I find a little bug:
if file URL is in an external site (file to download don’t reside in the site where plugin is installed), plugin breaks!!!!
I fix it.
In line 520 of download.php, before code:
‘if( !strstr(‘://’, $thefile ) ) {‘
I have added this code:
‘if( strstr(get_bloginfo(‘url’), $thefile ) ) {‘
In line 536 after:
‘}’
I have added:
‘}’
With this change plugin is back to normal functioning.
I hope this is useful.
Best Regards.
Comment made on February 6, 2010 at 10:17 pm
TK says:
Hi, I recently updated the plugin and I cannot add new or edit posts. When I deactivate the plugin it will work. Is there any way I could fix this?
Comment made on February 7, 2010 at 4:11 am
Mike Jolley says:
@shecky: I don’t think that is a fix. The code in that section is there to turn relative urls into absolute urls. There was an error though, I had the arguments back to front.
Comment made on February 7, 2010 at 1:28 pm