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On our site we use Easy Digital Downloads. Once an EDD download (e-commerce product) definition has been created it is usually supported by 
other posts that provide additional information – help or tutorial information for example. Ideally, these posts will have a similar style, 
use similar words and need to reference the same core information about the download such a the current version number, the slug, the excerpt, etc..
One way is to cut-and-past information from a download in to each post. But this means that when download details change, its essential to 
remember to update any related posts. This plugin provides another way: a set of plugins that allow you to reference details from a download 
and in this way remove the need to update related posts.
<h4>Features</h4>
Select the linked post using a meta-box dropdown from with in the post definition 
Over 40 shortcode to access post information 
Short-codes to access post field values and to access post meta values 
Access any post meta value by meta key

Download-Post/Page Link

Link posts or pages to an EDD download then use shortcodes in the post to access any field or meta data such as the excerpt, thumbnail and title.

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This plugin requires <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/" rel="ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a>.
If you’ve created a custom landing page or purchase funnel, hide the default product page of an Easy Digital Downloads product from users, and redirect them to your funnel. This allows you to optimize your purchase funnel and increase revenue.
EDD Hide Download allows you to: 
1. Hide a download so it doesn’t appear on the custom post type archive page, anywhere where the [downloads] shortcode is being used, or any custom query on a page template 
1. Prevent direct access to the download product page. The browser will redirect the user to the site’s homepage. 
1. Do a combination of hiding the download and preventing direct access to it
This plugin is extremely useful in the following situations:
<ol>
<li>You’ve created a product landing page and inserted a buy now button to your product. Since the landing page contains all the required product information, you can hide the product on the rest of your site and even prevent direct access to it.</li>
<li>You’ve added a product (eg support package) that shouldn’t sit with your other products you have listed. In this case we can simply hide it from appearing with the other products and insert it where we’d like it to appear using the shortcode.</li>
</ol>
Filter example
Example filter of how you can change the redirect based on the download ID. Copy this function to your child theme’s functions.php or custom plugin
<pre><code>function sumobi_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect( $url ) {
 // download has ID of 17
 if ( '17' == get_the_ID() ) {
 $url = 'http://easydigitaldownloads.com'; // redirect user to another external URL
 }

 // download has ID of 15
 if( '15' == get_the_ID() ) {
 $url = get_permalink( '8' ); // redirect to another download which has an ID of 8
 }

 // return our new URL
 return $url;
}
add_filter( 'edd_hide_download_redirect', 'sumobi_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect' );
</code></pre>
Example filter of how you can globally change the redirect. Copy this function to your child theme’s functions.php or custom plugin
<pre><code>function sumobi_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect_url( $url ) {
 $url = get_permalink( '8' ); // redirect to another download, post or page

 return $url;
}
add_filter( 'edd_hide_download_redirect', 'sumobi_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect' );
</code></pre>
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EDD Hide Download

Works great. Couldn't be simpler. Thanks!



Just what I needed

Exactly what I needed.

Nice feature for EDD
and nice support,
all good ! :)



Handy :)

This plugin works as advertised. Kudos to the author!

Excellent Add-on

Hide the default Easy Digital Downloads product page from the user, and redirect them to a custom page.

Download-Post/Page Link vs EDD Hide Download