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This plugin has now been replaced by an updated version which you can find here.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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musky00 says:
Here are the screenshots Mike. Hope you can help. Thanks
Comment made on February 24, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Mike Jolley says:
@musky00: Looks like a possible suspect is the date function (e.g. line 918 of the plugin):
<input type="hidden" name="postDate" value="<?php echo date(__('Y-m-d H:i:s',"wp-download_monitor")) ;?>" />If you go to the add download page and view page source you can check if the date is being added to this hidden field or not.
Tell me what you find.
Comment made on February 24, 2009 at 8:49 pm
musky00 says:
You are right Mike. Here is the hidden field on the add download page :
It should be “2009-02-24″, isn’t it ?
Comment made on February 24, 2009 at 11:58 pm
musky00 says:
Sorry, I made a mistake into the post above.
The value of postDate in the hidden field is “24-02-2009 23:47:33″ instead of “2009-02-24 23:47:33″, I think.
Comment made on February 25, 2009 at 12:01 am
musky00 says:
OK Mike, all is right, it was my fault. The file .po for the translation contains Y-m-d H:i:s and I translated it into french format :/
The french file for Download Monitor is ok at this time and can be downloaded on my blog.
Thank you very much for your help
Comment made on February 25, 2009 at 12:25 am
Matthew says:
Hi Mike, great plugin. Just a couple questions. Is it possible to create a custom format to use with the [download_cat#id] function. Also is it possible to get it to list the downloads by name rather than by id?
Thanks Again.
Matt
Comment made on February 25, 2009 at 6:36 am
Mike Jolley says:
@Matthew: Version under dev will allow this for cats; at the moment no. And no to the other since name is not unique.
Comment made on February 25, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Jay says:
Pinky: Thanks! That worked like a charm!
Comment made on February 27, 2009 at 3:10 pm
minu says:
XSS error (Firefox No-Script plugin). When click download link, i have XSS error.
Comment made on February 27, 2009 at 10:56 pm
minu says:
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
jay says:
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
Jeff says:
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
lakiserbia says:
[download#6#image] << not work, no image
what a problem?
Comment made on March 10, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Roger says:
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
Hallvard says:
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
Ruben says:
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
Softtouch says:
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
Miguel says:
hello, WP Download Monitor gives me a strange error whenever I try to donwload or even modify downloads (or delete). What could be doing this? .HTAccess? Permalinks structure? Dunno how to fix this and I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling Download Monitor. Guesse that could have screwed the dbase tables, right? perhaps added a few unnecessary ones… here’s an example! thank you.
Comment made on July 15, 2009 at 10:24 pm
seba says:
what is the code for show for last upload?
sorry i dont speak english
Comment made on July 26, 2009 at 2:02 am
joseff says:
Hi, I have a quick question.
I’d like to add another category field to this plugin and also I’d like to initiate a post creation when I upload a file. Where in your plugin should I add this code? Thanks!
Comment made on December 6, 2009 at 10:39 pm
saeed says:
Nice plugin, i like it
Comment made on April 30, 2010 at 9:24 am
NICHOLE BANKS says:
I don’t think I have seen this said in such an informative way before. You really have clarified this for me. Thanks!
Comment made on June 1, 2010 at 1:21 am
Maryam says:
Hi,
Thanks for the plugin but the add button does not work and every time i get the same error” You do not have permission to upload files/downloads.” Please help.Thanks
Comment made on June 8, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Chrisopher says:
I just downloaded and installed today, and I get the same error as Maryam “You do not have permission to upload files/downloads”
Comment made on June 10, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Andrés Richero says:
Help please. I get the same error as Maryam and Christopher “You do not have permission to upload files/downloads”
Comment made on June 14, 2010 at 3:36 pm