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Document Library Hub is the ultimate solution for organizing, displaying, and protecting sensitive documents on your WordPress website. Whether you need to create a private file library, restrict access to certain user roles, or showcase documents in a sleek layout, this plugin provides all the tools you need.
<h3>Key Features:</h3>
1. Advanced Document Management 
Organize your files effortlessly with categories and a centralized library. Managing large collections has never been easier.
2. Customizable Display Options 
Showcase your documents in a table or grid layout with fully customizable options to match your website’s style.
3. Secure Access Control 
Protect documents posts. Set permissions based on user roles, ensuring only authorized users can view specific documents.

Document Library Hub

Organizing documents in customizable formats, with advanced access control options.

This plugin displays all attachments from the WordPress database in the Document Links admin panel, divided into four categories: PDF, Word Docs, ZIP archives and Other. Within the admin panel, you can select which documents you would like to appear, then configure the Document Links Widget and drag it into the sidebar.
You can place as many Document Links Widgets in the sidebar as you like which allows you to show different categories under different titles in the sidebar if you wis,h.
<h3>Requirements</h3>
You must be running WordPress version 2.8 or higher.
You must have a Widget-ready theme installed to use this plugin.
<h3>Instructions</h3>
This is a two-part plugin that requires you to define your settings in both
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<li>The admin panel</li>
<li>The Document Links widget control panel</li>
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General description: The Document Links Widget allows you to provide download links to your Media Library files within your sidebar. This can be used for sharing white papers, instructions manuals, presentations or just general file sharing. You must have a Widget-enabled theme installed to use this plugin.
File selection: In the admin panel is a list of all the files in your Media Library. Selecting or deselecting the files here gives you granular control over which files appear within each category. Use the Widget control panel to hide or show the categories.
File names: To change the title of a file, edit the file name in your Media Library.
Order: Display the results by upload date in ascending or descending order.
File link icons: Selecting the show icons checkbox automatically places file icons next to the document links.

Document Links Widget

This plugin allows you to list links to your Media Library files. Great for offering white papers or other document downloads on your website.

Document Library Hub vs Document Links Widget