Download Monitor 3.3.5 Tagged for release

The latest update to Download Monitor for WordPress has been released; this version comes with a many fixes and some new features, such as improved sorting. For full details view the readme; you can grab the plugin here.

Download Monitor 3.3.3.9 ready for testing

I’ve been having reports of slow performance with download monitor .8, so I’ve made 3.3.3.9 ready for testing – I won’t make this ‘official’ for a few days just to make sure no-one finds any bugs. You can get this development version from here.

Here’s the changelog:

• Pre-loading meta and relationships again – less queries, better performance
• Improved download page loading time
• Using built in stripslashes_deep to fix magic_quotes stuff
• Made filesize save to custom fields so we don’t need to look it up every pageload
• Fixed strstr bug on delete
• Added option in config to disable mirror selection
• wp_dlm_ins_button dropdown on post screen is history – use the media button instead. Dropdown was slow and not very usable (when you had shed loads of downloads).
• htmlspecialchars_decode in download.php for people with dodgy file names

Download Monitor 3.3 Beta Available for testing & feedback

WordPress Download Monitor is my popular plugin for managing files available for download in WordPress – version 3.3 is a major update containing many new features and improvements.

Version 3.3 (beta) is now available for beta testing to ensure this is a hassle free update when released officially. I would appreciate any feedback, praise and bug reports in the comments. Read more about the new features and grab it after the break.

Download Monitor 3.2.2 Maintenance Release

Download Monitor has received some more love and has been updated. Here’s the change log from the new version:

• Small bugfix in uploader.php – cat ID
• Changed stats graph calculation – thanks lggemini
• Changes to headers in download.php to avoid caching
• File Browser fixes – $root was clashing with something….
• exclude_cat works in all sections of download_page now
• Removed hardcoding of /uploads/
• Added action to download.php – should be able to use it to stop a download if you want – maybe limiting downloads per day or something? Whatever you want…
• Made it so if you post new file on ‘edit’ screen, the post date is updated.
• Fixed the ‘blank meta’ section which blanks out custom field values when nothing is set.
• Moved ‘allow_url_fopen’ check.
• Someone said downloads don’t work with spaces in the name. They do! Wasting my time sonny…
• All work and no play make jolley a dull boy
• Had to rename capabilities so they work. Apologies if you have to set this up again! Cheers to Mark Dingemanse.
• {category_ID} custom format tag added. Useful if you want to send someone to its category on the DL page I guess. Also added {category_other} so when no category is set “other” is shown – this is because the download page can show an ‘other’ section if you want it to.
• You can now manually edit the post date on the edit download screen.

If you have edited capabilities for download monitor user permissions, you’ll have to again sorry! This is because I named them too long. Also, you should check your forced downloads still work because there was a logic error meaning they may not have been forced after-all…

Enjoy.

Mahousive update to Download Monitor (3.2)

Today I completed the update for the WordPress Download Monitor Plugin – many tweaks, fixes, and features added. There were no changes to the database structure so people upgrading should be fine. Here is the list from the change log:

• {user} tag added for custom formats
• ‘autop’ option fix
• Download page buttons applied with CSS so they are easier to customise/translate.
• Fix for pagination bug after editing a download
• Category output fix on edit downloads screen
• Category urls on download page use ID rather than name to prevent errors when cats have the same names.
• exclude_cat added to download_page shortcode
• Localised ‘hits’ ‘date’ ‘title’ on download page
• Option to disable the download logging
• Read file ‘chunked’ some people found large files were corrupted so this should help (fingers crossed)
• Added show_tags option to download page – displays x amount of tags on the download page.
• File Browser root setting and download.php logic/mime types modified thanks to Jim Isaacs (jidd.jimisaacs.com)
• Interface Improvements
• Bulk edit categories, custom fields, tags, member only downloads
• Added roles for download monitor admin – should be able to use with a role manager plugin if you want anyone other than admin to access the admin section e.g. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/
• Change redirect after add
• Edit Cat names/parents
• Dedicated tags and thumbnails fields (they still use meta table though)

And yes, those category link bugs are fixed at long last, and you can edit category names finally. Phew!

WordPress Download Monitor 3 Documentation

I have had some requests asking me to improve the WordPress Download Monitor documentation, so I decided to write (and maintain) this post explaining the ins-and-outs of configuring and using the plugin. Hopefully it will help you guys use the plugin, and also reveal more of its power and flexibility.

Don’t forget, if you love download monitor please make a small donation and/or rate it on the wordpress plugins directory. I also appreciate your contributions to the development of the plugin, so feel free to email me any code or your suggestions. Your support is very welcome!

Links: Download Monitor Page | Plugin Directory Page