Simplest way to add download links into your posts/pages.
| Author: | eugenealegiojo (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.0 |
| WordPress version tested: | 4.4.29 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0.4 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 04-04-2014 |
| Last updated: | 09-01-2016
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
|
| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 11 |
| Plugin URI: | http://phplugins.softanalyzer.com/simple-file... |
| Total downloads: | 86 912 |
| Active installs: | 10 000+ |
 Click to start download |
|
The plugin that will let admin user to add download links to any posts/pages in simplest way and hassle free.
Allows all your site visitors to download any files from your website without any user restriction.
Features
- Downloader button is available in your admin content editor for post, page or post type. Shortcode will be generated automatically.
- Insert download links manually via shortcode [media-downloader] to any posts, pages or custom post types. Check for more parameters below (Embedding).
- Allow users to directly download in all file formats for free.
- No file size limit for downloads.
For more information please check the Simple File Downloader documentation page
Embedding / generated Shortcodes
Create a new post/page and click the ‘Add Download’ button from the content editor, then generate the shortcode below:
[media-downloader media_id="9" texts="Download Now!"]
Media id is automatically added from your media library.
Here are the all the available parameters when generating shortcode for file download:
texts
If you choose to leave the texts parameter empty, then it be defaulted to ‘Download File’.
image_url
You can also use image/button as your download link. If you supplied this parameter, then texts parameter will be replaced by this image.
[media-downloader media_id="9" image_url="http://domain.com/wp-content/themes/images/button.png"]
class
You can add class to your download link either a texts or image button. This is useful if you want to apply your own style.
[media-downloader media_id="9" texts="Download PDF" class="download-pdf"]
display_filesize
You also have an option to display the size of the file. Just set it to ‘yes’
[media-downloader media_id="9" texts="Download PDF" display_filesize="yes"]