Wordpress Download Monitor Plugin 2

This plugin has now been replaced by an updated version which you can find here. This version is good for wordpress versions below 2.5 and can be obtained here.

Wordpress Download Monitor PluginIt’s here! The new improved download monitor plugin for wordpress is ready for use, and ready for wordpress 2.5 which is set to be released soon. This new version, aside form the wordpress 2.5 support, contains many bug fixes and is now much more efficient.

Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links. Version 1 had a total of over 6000 downloads, lets hope this new release proves just as popular. Read more for the download link, the list of fixes, and usage/upgrade instructions.

Wordpress Download Monitor Plugin

By Mike Jolley ( http://www.blue-anvil.com )

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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.

On installation, this plugin only uses 1 database table to store download information, uploaded downloads are stored in their own directory. Don’t want to upload? You can add links to existing downloads, and track them, also.

By adding a simple tag to a wordpress page you can show the link, with or without hits displayed.

For usage instructions see this page or the admin page after installing the plugin (Manage > Downloads).

Admin Admin

Features

  • New – WP2.7 Support
  • New – Editor button – upload and add a download stright from a post.
  • New – Custom redirects.
  • New – Custom download image.
  • New – Localised files include redirects.
  • New – Added support to add downloads to text widgets
  • New – Mirror support (selected at random)
  • New – Mirror deadlink checker
  • Custom Field support.
  • Download Categories.
  • Member only downloads.
  • Localization support.
  • Fixed – Sorting and pagination of downloads in admin.
  • Re-upload files, handy for updating versions!
  • Change hits, just in case you change servers or import old downloads that already have stats.
  • URL hider using mod_rewrite.
  • Image display mode (show a link like the download link image on this page!).
  • Admin page for uploading/linking to downloads, and specifying information (title and version).
  • Records download hits.
  • Does not count downloads by wordpress admin users.
  • Template tags for showing popular, recent, and random downloads in your web site’s sidebar.
  • Post tags for outputting download links e.g [Download id not defined].
  • Drop-down menu in non-rich text wordpress editor for adding links.

Change log

You can track changes to the plugin in the wordpress plugin SVN.

Get it now!

You can get the latest version from the wordpress plugin database; Download it here!

Localization files

Need it in a different language? Some users have been kind enough to provide some translation files.


First time installation instructions

Latest instruction are found in the wordpress plugin database; here.

Upgrade instructions

Latest instruction are found in the wordpress plugin database; here.

Tags/usage

Usage instructions can be found here.

Licence

Wordpress Download Monitor Plugin v2 © Copyright 2008-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 we really did put ALOT 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, your support is much appreciated.

P.s. This plugin uses the awesome upload script found at finalwebsites!

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  • 466 - minu says: Reply to this comment

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    XSS error (Firefox No-Script plugin). When click download link, i have XSS error.

    Comment made on February 27, 2009 at 10:56 pm

  • 467 - minu says: Reply to this comment

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    How to insert date in custom formats? Or any way to display the date for the file.

    Comment made on February 27, 2009 at 11:49 pm

  • 468 - jay says: Reply to this comment

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    Hi,

    Just a quick one does anyone know how to have the download image but without the download stats? Every time i try just do the download and image it doesnt work?

    Comment made on March 5, 2009 at 2:28 am

  • 469 - Jeff says: Reply to this comment

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    Great plugin! I have a couple issues though. Apostrophe’s don’t seem to be escaped in the file title and stuff, and is it possible to use one of the custom formatting templates when displaying downloads from a category? [download_cat#1]

    Thanks for all the work on this plugin!

    Comment made on March 7, 2009 at 5:07 pm

  • 470 - lakiserbia says: Reply to this comment

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    [download#6#image] << not work, no image
    what a problem?

    Comment made on March 10, 2009 at 6:39 pm

  • 471 - Roger says: Reply to this comment

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    Displaying downloads by category doesn’t seem to be using a stripslashes function. Any ideas? Thanks!

    Comment made on March 10, 2009 at 8:15 pm

  • 472 - Hallvard says: Reply to this comment

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    Hi
    Great plugin, but i have the same problem as Mark (comment #465). Is this answered (i couldn’t find it)?

    Also: Is this the correct way to fill in?
    Custom Output Format:
    {title} ({size}, {hits} downloads), version: {version}

    Comment made on March 12, 2009 at 2:14 pm

  • 473 - Ruben says: Reply to this comment

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    Hi Mike, just wanted to say thank you for such a quality plugin. I love it. Mike, let’s have a section on your site that is fully dedicated to this great plugin… like feature request, support etc. This is also nice too.

    How to make links open in a new window ? and can we put a link beside the main link that allows Right Click “Save As”. When I do this on the link it doesn’t save the file but saves .htm etc… Sorry, I’m new.

    ruben

    Comment made on March 15, 2009 at 1:08 am

  • 474 - Softtouch says: Reply to this comment

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    I have one issue, the tag [#show_downloads] list the files in revers alphabetical order! That’s not good, they should be in alphabetical order, starting with A and not with Z. Where can I change that?

    Comment made on March 15, 2009 at 3:00 am

  • 475 - webmaster9 says: Reply to this comment

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    Thanks for your plugin, I found it really usefull for me!

    Comment made on July 12, 2009 at 9:17 am

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