honza.skypala

Let’s make sure that these are the starting conditions:
<ol>
<li>You have developed your own WordPress plugin or theme and you host it at <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/" rel="ugc">WordPress.org</a></li>
<li>You have your own WordPress blog and in there you use either <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-downloadmanager/" rel="ugc">WP-DownloadManager</a> plugin or <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/download-monitor/" rel="ugc">WordPress Download Monitor</a> plugin</li>
<li>You list your own plug-in or theme in one of the download managers mentioned in point 2 and it links to URL at WordPress.org</li>
</ol>
OK, these are the conditions. All is fine, everything works, visitors of your web can click on the download link and they are served the file from wordpress.org and your download manager counts the hits on the files. But maybe you would like it not to show only the hits that people do on your own blog, but all the hits that your plugin or theme gets, including the ones when people find the download directly on WordPress.org site, not just through your blog.
This plugin solves it. It runs in the background, it checks if you are using one of the supported download managers, it goes through the downloads registered, and if it finds a download that has URL pointing to plugins or themes at WordPress.org, it will automatically update the hits from there to your download manager.
All is done automatically in the background. The functionality is run in the background by WordPress built-in cron. The plugin has no configuration. If you don’t have any download manager installed or you do not list any download pointing to plugin or theme at WordPress.org, this plugin will simply “do nothing”, but it will not damage your site.
<h3>Licence</h3>
WTFPL License 2.0 applies
<pre><code> DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
 Version 2, December 2004

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.

 DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
</code></pre>

dm4extensions

Let's make sure that these are the starting conditions:

CodeFlock

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.
<h3>FREE DOWNLOAD MANAGER FEATURES</h3>
<ul>
<li>Custom Post Type and Taxonomy. Creating a new WordPress Download page is just like adding a post. </li>
<li>Add, edit and remove downloads from an easy-to-use interface.</li>
<li>Option to upload multiple files.</li>
<li>Multiple featured image option.</li>
<li>Assign categories and tags to your downloadable files and documents.</li>
<li>Redirect the user to any page once the user has downloaded the file. </li>
<li>The ability to change the base URL of category and package URLs. </li>
<li>Use shortcodes to display a Download Now button on a WordPress post or page.</li>
<li>Download counter for each file. Ability to sort downloads count by date. </li>
<li>Ability to search and sort your downloadable files in the admin dashboard.</li>
<li>Track the date and number of downloads for each of your files.</li>
<li>View the daily download counts of your items in a chart.</li>
<li>Tinymce button in the WordPress post/page editor easily adds the shortcode.</li>
<li>Export all the file download logs to a CSV file.</li>
</ul>
<h3>FREE DOWNLOAD MANAGER PLUGIN INSTALLATION</h3>
• 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.
<h3>FREE DOWNLOAD MANAGER PLUGIN USAGE</h3>
To add a new download
<ol>
<li>Navigate to the ‘Downloads -> Add New’ interface in your WP admin</li>
<li>Enter a title and description as you normally would do in a WordPress post.</li>
<li>Click on the ‘Add’ field button and Select the file from your computer and upload it (or use the URL of the file).</li>
<li>Add an image for the download (it will be displayed as a thumbnail on the front end).</li>
<li>Publish it.</li>
</ol>
You can view all of your existing downloads from the ‘Downloads-> Downloads’ interface.
To add Featured Images
<ol>
<li>Click featured image, select the required image from the Dynamic Featured Image – Media Selector popup and click on Featured Image.</li>
<li>Click on ‘Add New’ to add a new featured image or use the Remove link to remove the featured image box.</li>
<li>After adding featured images, click publish or update to save featured images.</li>
</ol>
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)] );
<pre><code>//You can now loop through the image to display them as required
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}
Note: The featured images are saved only when you publish or update the post.
To Change Category Base URL
<ul>
<li>Navigate to ‘Downloads-> Settings’ and add the base url to the form ”Category Base URL”. </li>
</ul>
To Change Package Base URL
<ul>
<li>Navigate to ‘Downloads-> Settings’ and add the base url to the form ”Package Base URL”.</li>
</ul>
To Redirect User to a different page for file download.
<ul>
<li>Navigate to ‘Downloads-> Settings’ and select the Download Confirmation Page from the drop-down.</li>
</ul>

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  …

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