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This plugin has now been replaced by an updated version which you can find here.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.
It’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 )
Index
- About the plugin
- Features
- Change log
- Get it now!
- First time installation instructions
- Upgrade instructions
- Tags/usage
- Licence and support
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).
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.
- Chinese translation
- Danish translation
- Japanese translation
- Italian translation
- Portuguese translation
- Hebrew translation
- French translation
- Turkish translation
- Ukrainian translation
- Spanish Translation
- Lithuanian Translation
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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Marc says:
I get the following error when activating the plugin on WP 2.3.3:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_dlm_menu() (previously declared in /home/ouieanet/public_html/wordpresscat.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-downloadMonitor/wp-downloadMonitor.php:32) in /home/ouieanet/public_html/wordpresscat.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-download_monitor2/wp-download_monitor.php on line 42
Is that plugin WP 2.3.3 comaptible?
Comment made on March 12, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Marc says:
OK, it’s done. I didn’t deactivate the old plugin! Sorry
Comment made on March 12, 2008 at 2:38 pm
hpyer says:
Hi:
I found a bug when I Custom Download URL as Filename. It report `Download does not exist!`, so I checked the file `download.php`, and find out why it can’t work.
Just remove the condition `is_numeric($id)` at the line 7, it will work fine.
BTW, it’s a wonderful plugin for WordPress, thank you~
Comment made on March 13, 2008 at 3:17 am
Mike Jolley says:
Thanks hpyer, fixed it.
Comment made on March 13, 2008 at 9:18 am
didi says:
Is there a way to allow rar files?
Thanks
Comment made on March 13, 2008 at 11:13 am
Mike Jolley says:
didi – just open the plugin file, near the top you will see the alowed extensions. just add rar
Comment made on March 13, 2008 at 11:42 am
perplexed says:
hi
I am looking for something like this to add to my site. I had this idea to add a page that would list all available downloads on the site, can you tell me what to put on the page in order to do that?
thanks
Comment made on March 13, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Alessandra says:
I just did the upgrade, but find an incompatibility with the widgets page. if your new plugin is active, I cannot do anything to my widgets. the page does not respond. If I deactivate your plugin, everything is back to normal. any ideas what could cause the problem?
thanks.
Comment made on March 13, 2008 at 2:47 pm
didi says:
Thank you , it worked great.
I encountered no problems so far with this new version. Thanks for sharing!
Comment made on March 13, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Kevin says:
How do I change this value? Max. filesize = 1048576 bytes.
Comment made on March 13, 2008 at 5:00 pm
dvdianov says:
Ohh…
There is a trouble with Cyrillic in Title etc, can you fix it?
Comment made on March 13, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Regen says:
Please forgive English not good because I am Japanese…
When I was translating this plugin into Japanese, I found some bugs.
I suggest the following.
Line 41: change the 4th parameter of add_management_page() into ‘Downloads’
Line 421 : change “Max. filesize = ” into
Line 421 : change “bytes” into
Line 857 : add value=”ID” to tag
Line 858 : add value=”Title” to tag
Line 859 : add value=”Filename” to tag
Comment made on March 14, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Dan Zappone says:
Great plugin! I just started using it and I think it will suit my purposes for the most part. I do have a suggestion though – how about the option to include the size of the download.
Maybe with a tag like this: [download#id#size] or [download#id#nohits#size]
If you can add that I’d be delighted and I’ll send you a donation right away.
Comment made on March 14, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Dan Zappone says:
One other note, when I activate the plug-in, it kills drag and drop on my widgets configuration page.
Comment made on March 14, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Mike Jolley says:
Thanks everyone for your bug reports and fixes, I’m now working through them all. You can track my changes on the svn http://dev.wp-plugins.org/log/download-monitor/
Comment made on March 14, 2008 at 4:33 pm
laura mcdonald says:
beautiful! can’t wait to get all my downloads linked up with this thing. will certainly donate when i have some extra cash. thanks!
Comment made on March 14, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Mike Jolley says:
New version up (2.0.2) fixes, filesize tag, show all downloads tag added.
Enjoy!
Comment made on March 14, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Dan Zappone says:
Thanks for the quick work. The donation is on it’s way.
I’m still having issues with the widgets page (basically all the Ajax on the page) not working when Download Monitor is installed. It’s livable since I’m not changing widgets around every day I’m not sure what exactly is causing the problem – it’s not the browser (tried Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari) or the theme (tried several.) Here’s what I get using Firebug:
widget.php (line 105)
jQuery("#admin-linkscontrol").Draggable is not a functioninitWidgets()widgets.php (line 105)
(no name)()widgets.php (line 314)
e()jquery.js (line 11)
e()jquery.js (line 11)
e([function(), function()], function(), undefined)jquery.js (line 11)
e()jquery.js (line 11)
[Break on this error] jQuery('#admin-linkscontrol').Draggable({handle: '.controlhandle', zIndex: 100...
Comment made on March 14, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@Dan – I made a silly mistake, its now fixed.
Comment made on March 14, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Dean says:
Nice work Mike, I’m now working on transferring all my ‘mods’ from 1.5 over to the new version. Also thanks for updating the admin to work with WP2.5
Comment made on March 15, 2008 at 4:41 am
Regen says:
Thank you for the fixes.
And sorry for forgetting to escape braces in my previous comment.
My Japanese language file is published in my blog.
Your plugin is very nice.
Comment made on March 15, 2008 at 6:25 am
Mike Jolley says:
@regen – Thanks added to list of localizations.
@Dean – Good to hear. Your themes are really good by the way
Comment made on March 15, 2008 at 11:06 am
hpyer says:
A bug of database, I have already send an email to you.
Comment made on March 17, 2008 at 5:07 am
Mike Jolley says:
Got it, I was just waiting to see if I got any more reports before updating
And so far no other issues found.
Comment made on March 17, 2008 at 12:54 pm
hpyer says:
Already very excellent now. It may be better to let users set up the file extentions in admin panel.
Comment made on March 19, 2008 at 1:53 pm