FREE DOWNLOAD MANAGER

Free Download Manager is a WordPress Download Manager for freebie digital downloads. This plugin will help you manage your free digital downloads and track the number of downloads. Using this plugin, you can easily manage your freebies and follow the download count of all your freebies.
You can manage and track each file using this plugin. Moreover, the users can directly download the free items without adding them to a cart or checkout.

FREE DOWNLOAD MANAGER FEATURES

• Custom Post Type and Taxonomy. Creating a new WordPress Download page is just like adding a post.
• Add, edit and remove downloads from an easy-to-use interface.
• Option to upload multiple files.
• Multiple featured image option.
• Assign categories and tags to your downloadable files and documents.
• Redirect the user to any page once the user has downloaded the file.
• The ability to change the base URL of category and package URLs.
• Use shortcodes to display a Download Now button on a WordPress post or page.
• Download counter for each file. Ability to sort downloads count by date.
• Ability to search and sort your downloadable files in the admin dashboard.
• Track the date and number of downloads for each of your files.
• View the daily download counts of your items in a chart.
• Tinymce button in the WordPress post/page editor easily adds the shortcode.
• Export all the file download logs to a CSV file.

FREE DOWNLOAD MANAGER PLUGIN INSTALLATION

• Install the plugin as you would normally- either directly from the WordPress site or by downloading the zip file and uploading it into your site.
• Activate the plugin.

FREE DOWNLOAD MANAGER PLUGIN USAGE

To add a new download

1. Navigate to the ‘Downloads -> Add New’ interface in your WP admin
2. Enter a title and description as you normally would do in a WordPress post.
3. Click on the ‘Add’ field button and Select the file from your computer and upload it (or use the URL of the file).
4. Add an image for the download (it will be displayed as a thumbnail on the front end).
5. Publish it.

You can view all of your existing downloads from the ‘Downloads-> Downloads’ interface.

To add Featured Images

1. Click featured image, select the required image from the Dynamic Featured Image – Media Selector popup and click on Featured Image.
2. Click on ‘Add New’ to add a new featured image or use the Remove link to remove the featured image box.
3. After adding featured images, click publish or update to save featured images.

Get Featured Images

Use this code in your theme.

if( class_exists(‘WFDM_Featured_Image’) ) {
global $wfdm_featured_image;
$featured_images = $wfdm_featured_image->wfdm_get_featured_images( [$postId (optional)] );

//You can now loop through the image to display them as required 

}

Note: The featured images are saved only when you publish or update the post.

To Change Category Base URL

• Navigate to ‘Downloads-> Settings’ and add the base url to the form ”Category Base URL”.

To Change Package Base URL

• Navigate to ‘Downloads-> Settings’ and add the base url to the form ”Package Base URL”.

To Redirect User to a different page for file download.

• Navigate to ‘Downloads-> Settings’ and select the Download Confirmation Page from the drop-down.