Genesis Connect for Easy Digital Downloads

Optimized Display plus Bonus Features

This plugin provides optimized templates for the ‘download’ Custom Post Type of the Easy Digital Downloads plugin for the use with Genesis Framework and Child Themes. To allow easy customization of these templates, and ensure that you do not lose your customizations when the plugin is updated, you can place your own copies of these templates in your child theme’s /edd/ folder and customize these copies as much as you like. You can also create your own taxonomy-{taxonomy}.php and taxonomy-{taxonomy}-{term}.php templates in the same location and this plugin will find them and use them to display your website’s Download Category and Download Tag archives. See the Template Hierarchy to learn more about naming requirements for taxonomy templates.

Additionally, the plugin adds full support for the Genesis SEO Settings, inpost metaboxes for Layout Settings plus plugin support for “Genesis Simple Sidebars” as well as “Genesis Simple Menus”. Further, two additional (shortcode aware) sidebars are provided for the use on top of the Downloads Archives page and for Single Download pages. Further, breadcrumbs display and post meta info is tweaked for optimized usage.

Please note: This connect plugin is not required for Genesis & Easy Digital Downloads users but makes life a lot easier!

Plugin support from the ecosystem

• “Genesis Simple Sidebars” (free, by StudioPress)
• “Genesis Simple Menus” (free, by StudioPress)
• “Easy Digital Downloads Toolbar” (free, by David Decker – DECKERWEB)
• “Genesis Toolbar Extras” (free, by David Decker – DECKERWEB)

Localization

• English (default) – always included
• German (de_DE) – always included
• .pot file (genesis-connect-edd.pot) for translators is also always included 🙂
• Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool: Translate “Genesis Connect for Easy Digital Downloads”…
• Your translation? – Just send it in

Credit where credit is due: This plugin here is based on the work of Ade Walker & StudioPress for “Genesis Connect for WooCommerce” (GPLv2 or later).

A plugin from deckerweb.de and GenesisThemes

Feedback

• I am open for your suggestions and feedback – Thank you for using or trying out one of my plugins!
• Drop me a line @deckerweb on Twitter
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Tips & More

• Plugin tip: My Easy Digital Downloads Toolbar — a great time saver and helper tool for EDD!
• Also see my other plugins or see my WordPress.org profile page
• Tip: GenesisFinder – Find then create. Your Genesis Framework Search Engine.
• Hey, come & join the Genesis Community on Google+ 🙂

Plugin Links

• Translations (GlotPress)
• User support forums
• Plugin tip: My Easy Digital Downloads Toolbar — a great time saver and helper tool for EDD!

Donate

Enjoy using Genesis Connect for Easy Digital Downloads? Please consider making a small donation to support the project’s continued development.

Translations

• English – default, always included
• German (de_DE): Deutsch – immer dabei! Download auch via deckerweb.de
• For custom and update-secure language files please upload them to /wp-content/languages/genesis-connect-edd/ (just create this folder) – This enables you to use fully custom translations that won’t be overridden on plugin updates. Also, complete custom English wording is possible with that, just use a language file like genesis-connect-edd-en_US.mo/.po to achieve that (for creating one see the following tools).

Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool: Translate “Genesis Connect for Easy Digital Downloads”…

Note: All my plugins are internationalized/ translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating I recommend the awesome “Codestyling Localization” plugin and for validating the “Poedit Editor”, which works fine on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Additional Info

Idea Behind / Philosophy: Just a little leightweight plugin for all the Easy Digital Downloads plugin users out there to make their daily web admin life a bit easier. I’ll try to add some plugin/extension support if it makes some sense in the future. So stay tuned :).

Credits

I owe huge thanks to Ade Walker as well as the StudioPress crew for paving the way with Genesis Connect for WooCommerce!