patrice

Download Directory allow you to create a download directory website. You will be abble to provide to your visitor a listing of software, freeware, shareware …
Work with mostly any theme
Multilingual ready : currently translated in French and English. .Pot file provided, can be fully translated in any language.
Slug translatable: Every archive, post, categories, tags … link are translatable. it’s mean than you can provide post slug in your language, like :
<ul>
<li>site.dev/download/wordpress</li>
<li>site.dev/descargas/wordpress</li>
<li>site.dev/telecharger/wordpres</li>
<li>…</li>
</ul>
With Download Directory, you can track the number of times each software are downloaded.
Visitor can also register to an update alert list, allowing them to receive an email alert when new release are available to their favorites softwares.
Updating the version field of a sofware automatically send an email alert to the suscriber of this current software.
User are also able to unregister themself from an update list whenever they want, simply by following the link at the bottom of the mail alerte they have received.
When user click on “download”, they are redirected to a “downloading” page, providing an automatic loading of the download, incrementing download counter and allowing you to display whatever you want in this page (via widgets), like advertising, etc …
This page also display the download link, and, in case it is broken, a link to the website editor, and even link to miror link if you provided it.
You can use 3 miror links, more the direct download link.
French Demo at <a href="http://www.patricelaurent.net/telechargements/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.patricelaurent.net/telechargements/</a>
See it in action here : <a href="http://www.patricelaurent.net/telecharger/wordpress/download-directory/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.patricelaurent.net/telecharger/wordpress/download-directory/</a>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Create a new Downloads, as you will normally do for a normal post.</li>
<li>In the “software informations” meta box, provide the version, size, download link, editor website, editor url miror link if available</li>
<li>Choose a category, add tags et license type (eg: freeware, shareware,etc..)</li>
<li>Add featured image to illustrate it</li>
<li>publish</li>
</ol>
<h3>Advanced usage</h3>
You can use your own template for archive, category, tags and single file.
For archives pages, just create an file called archive-down_repo.php in your current theme directory.
For single page, simply create a single-down_repo.php file in your theme directory.
Adding your own css and style.
create a css file in your theme directory. Name it as you want. 
then add this code in your theme function file (or in any personnal plugin):
<pre><code>add_filter('down_repo_style','my_custom_css',10,1);

function my_custom_css($css){

$css=get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/mycss.css';

return $css;

}
</code></pre>
This will symply replace the current css file of the plugin by your one. 
If you jsut want to disable the css of the plugin, just add a null filter
<pre><code>add_filter('down_repo_style',function(){return null;},10,1);
</code></pre>

Download Directory

Create a download directory website in a minute.  Allow user to receive update alert for new software's version.

WP Chill

Silkalns

Download Monitor provides an interface for uploading and managing downloadable files (including support for multiple versions), inserting download links into posts, logging downloads and selling downloads!
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Adds the possibility for Download Monitor’s XHR requests to be processed from other domains.</li>
</ul>
Download Monitor has been featured on the websites of some of the most popular and leading businesses in the WordPress ecosystem, such as WPBeginner, Pagely, Jilt, WP Fusion & Kinsta.
<blockquote>
<h4>Download Monitor Extensions</h4>
Extend the core Download Monitor plugin with it’s powerful extensions.
Some of our popular extensions include: 
 – <a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/extensions/gravity-forms/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-block-gravity-forms-lock" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravity Forms Gated Content</a> – easily create a download gate with Gravity Forms. Require users to fill-in a form before accessing a PDF any other type of download. 
 – <a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/extensions/page-addon/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-block-page-addon" rel="nofollow ugc">Page Addon</a> 
 – <a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/extensions/mailchimp-lock//?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-block-mailchimp-lock" rel="nofollow ugc">MailChimp Download After Sign up</a> – Allow access to file downloads only for people who already belong to a MailChimp mailing list. This extensions facilitates the download after sign up in a MailChimp list. 
 – <a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/extensions/email-lock/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-block-email-lock" rel="nofollow ugc">Email Lock</a>
</blockquote>
>
<blockquote>
Want to see more? <a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/extensions/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-block-browse-all" rel="nofollow ugc">Browse All Extensions</a>
</blockquote>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
We have a large Knowledge Base on our <a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/kb/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Download Monitor website</a> that contains documentation about how to how to setup and use Download Monitor.
Are you a new Download Monitor user? Read these articles on how to get your files ready for download with Download Monitor:
<ol>
<li><a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/kb/install-and-activate-download-monitor//?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">How to install Download Monitor</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/kb/adding-downloads-to-your-website/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">How to add your first download in Download Monitor</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/kb/shortcode-downloads/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">How to list your first download on your website with the download shortcode</a></li>
</ol>
More advanced topics that a lot of people find interesting:
<ol>
<li><a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/kb/content-templates/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about the different ways you can style your download buttons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/kb/overriding-content-templates/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about how to customize your download buttons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.download-monitor.com/kb/action-and-filter-reference/?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=description-documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about what actions and filters are available in Download Monitor</a></li>
</ol>
<h4>Contributing and reporting bugs</h4>
You can contribute code to this plugin via GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/WPChill/dlm-cors" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/WPChill/download-monitor</a>
<h4>Support</h4>
Use the WordPress.org forums for community support. If you spot a bug, you can of course log it on <a href="https://github.com/WPChill/dlm-cors/issues/new/choose" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> instead where we can act upon it more efficiently.

Download Monitor – CORS

Download Monitor is a plugin for selling, uploading and managing downloads, tracking downloads and displaying links.

Download Directory vs Download Monitor – CORS