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
Just posting a video review of my MiniCard theme by Mark Adams I found whilst googling today; some of you might find it interesting to watch.
I will add that there are actually ways to add your own links to MiniCard now; this was added in an update. If you want to get MiniCard and give it a whirl you’ll find the post here. Thanks for the review Mark 
I have just uploaded 1.1.7 of MiniCard here and to the WordPress theme directory. This updates includes:
- New networks; xing, gowalla, yelp, foursquare, mobileme, google buzz
- A way to change link text and define multiple links of the same network
- A way to define your own custom links + icons
- Improved admin panel
Hope you like it, and don’t forget you can show your support by purchasing the premium pack from here.
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.
Want more MiniCard goodness? Purchase the premium pack to gain access to the in-built AJAX RSS feed module, several new sub-themes, priority support, and the warm fuzzy feeling you get by supporting the author! Premium is £25 GBP.
I am releasing my MiniCard theme for wordpress which supports hCard/vCard microformats, tonnes of social networks, showing some portfolio items (optional), and more – all controllable from its own Theme Config page. This theme is free and licensed under GPL – there is also a premium pack available with many theme variations, and the footer feed functionality.
Read more for more information and the download links. I hope you find this theme useful and spread the word
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.
