Mustapha FERSAOUI

Download Sender allows you to add a download button, which when clicked displays a file sending form requiring users to enter their email address to receive a download link. It is flexible and highly customizable with tons of customizing options to make sure to match your preference.
Here is a <a href="https://www.mustaphafersaoui.fr/wp-plugins/download-sender/live-demo//" rel="nofollow ugc">live demo</a>
FEATURES:
<ul>
<li>Upload file via WordPress Media Uploader.</li>
<li>Private, Encrypted file Sending: Send files through a safe, private, and encrypted link that automatically expires to ensure your stuff does not remain online forever.</li>
<li>Prevent users from spamming your file sending forms.</li>
<li>Prevent inaccurate email addresses from pranksters, spam-bots, or people who are just in a hurry. This feature allows to logs only the verified email address.* Set expiration times for your download links.</li>
<li>Disable file sending form for logged in users.</li>
<li>Ability to enable/disable downloading logs.</li>
<li>Abbilty to resending download link from in the admin logs page with a simple click.</li>
<li>Export logs to CSV file.</li>
<li>Configure URL of “Expired Link” page.</li>
<li>Customizable email template with different parameters: subject line, email body, from name, or from email address.</li>
<li>Customize the default form validation messages: description, email placeholder, wrong email, empty email, success, failed, already sent and already sent “Help Text”.</li>
<li>Delete expired links.</li>
<li>Accent Colors: 4 globally defined color schemes and 3 color gradients.</li>
<li>Unlimited colors for icons, texts and buttons.</li>
<li>2 Button Hover Animation Effects.</li>
<li>Display alert boxes as a tool-tip.</li>
<li>FontAwesome integration.</li>
<li>Translation ready.</li>
</ul>
PREMIUM:
<ul>
<li>Integrates well with WPBakery Page Builder.</li>
<li>Add Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA) to the file sending form.</li>
<li>Feature to verifies the email address at sending file time to minimize the sending of emails to non-working email addresses and receiving too many bounced and returned emails.</li>
<li>Ability to verify emails manually from the logs page.</li>
<li>Manually enter a valid URL with ability to use URLs of files hosted on external web sites.</li>
<li>Set custom expiration times for your download links (Manually enter the number of hours or days).</li>
<li>Set maximum number of times a user can download files.</li>
<li>Download counter for each file.</li>
<li>Offsetting the download count for each file.</li>
<li>Showing the download counter.</li>
<li>Send encrypted download link through admin panel.</li>
<li>Delete sent links older than a certain date.</li>
<li>9 more button hover animation effects.</li>
<li>Choose custom icons from FontAwesome for your notifications.</li>
<li>Ability to display multiple download buttons in the same page.</li>
<li>Create a direct single click download button.</li>
</ul>

Download Sender

Download Sender allows you to add a download button, which when clicked displays a file sending form requiring users to enter their email address to r …

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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.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Downloader button is available in your admin content editor for post, page or post type. Shortcode will be generated automatically.</li>
<li>Insert download links manually via shortcode [media-downloader] to any posts, pages or custom post types. Check for more parameters below (Embedding).</li>
<li>Allow users to directly download in all file formats for free.</li>
<li>No file size limit for downloads. 
For more information please check the <a href="http://phplugins.softanalyzer.com/simple-file-downloader/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple File Downloader</a> documentation page</li>
</ul>
<h4>Embedding / generated Shortcodes</h4>
Create a new post/page and click the ‘Add Download’ button from the content editor, then generate the shortcode below:
<pre><code>[media-downloader media_id="9" texts="Download Now!"]
</code></pre>
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.
<pre><code>[media-downloader media_id="9" image_url="http://domain.com/wp-content/themes/images/button.png"]
</code></pre>
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.
<pre><code>[media-downloader media_id="9" texts="Download PDF" class="download-pdf"]
</code></pre>
display_filesize
You also have an option to display the size of the file. Just set it to ‘yes’
<pre><code>[media-downloader media_id="9" texts="Download PDF" display_filesize="yes"]
</code></pre>

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