Easy Digital Downloads

Andrew Munro / AffiliateWP

EDD Blocks adds a “Downloads” block to the new WordPress editor, also known as Gutenberg.
The Downloads block allows you to display a grid of Downloads on your site similar to the [downloads] shortcode already provided by Easy Digital Downloads. The Downloads block provides a visual representation of your downloads, allowing you to see a real-time preview of your downloads as you configure the various settings.
As well as being able to display downloads, a grid of Download Categories or Download Tags can be shown.
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>The latest version of the Gutenberg plugin OR WordPress 5.0 or greater</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/" title="Easy Digital Downloads" rel="ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h4>Display a grid of Downloads</h4>
<ol>
<li>Set how many downloads should show per page</li>
<li>Set how many columns of downloads should show</li>
<li>Show or hide the buy button</li>
<li>Show or hide the price</li>
<li>Show or hide thumbnail images</li>
<li>Show or hide the excerpt</li>
<li>Show or hide the full content</li>
<li>Show or hide the pagination</li>
<li>Order downloads by “Date Created”, “Earnings”, “ID”, “Price”, “Random”, “Sales”, “Slug” or “Title”</li>
<li>Order downloads in an “Ascending” or “Descending” order</li>
<li>Show downloads from a specific category</li>
</ol>
<h4>Display a grid of Download Categories</h4>
<ol>
<li>Set how many columns of download categories should show</li>
<li>Show or hide download category thumbnail images</li>
<li>Show or hide download category names</li>
<li>Show or hide download category descriptions</li>
<li>Show or hide download category counts</li>
<li>Show or hide empty download categories</li>
<li>Order download categories by “Count”, “ID”, “Name” or “Slug”</li>
<li>Order download categories in an “Ascending” or “Descending” order</li>
</ol>
<h4>Display a grid of Download Tags</h4>
<ol>
<li>Set how many columns of download tags should show</li>
<li>Show or hide download tag thumbnail images</li>
<li>Show or hide download tag names</li>
<li>Show or hide download tag descriptions</li>
<li>Show or hide download tag counts</li>
<li>Show or hide empty download tags</li>
<li>Order download tags by “Count”, “ID”, “Name” or “Slug”</li>
<li>Order download tags in an “Ascending” or “Descending” order</li>
</ol>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
Gutenberg also provides a shortcode block so we’ve added a [download_categories] and [download_tags] shortcode. Each shortcode shares the same attributes, mimicking the options of the Downloads block:
thumbnails
true (default) | false
Whether or not to show the thumbnail image.
title
true (default) | false
Whether or not to show the category or tag name.
description
true (default) | false
Whether or not to show the category or tag description.
show_empty
true | false (default)
Whether or not to show empty terms.
columns
1 | 2 | 3 (default) | 4 | 5 | 6
The number of columns.
count
true (default) | false
Whether or not to show the number of downloads in each term.
orderby
count (default) | id | name | slug
What to order the terms by.
order
ASC | DESC (default)
In which order to display the terms.
Shortcode examples
[download_categories count=”false” orderby=”name” order=”ASC” title=”false” columns=”4″]
[download_tags orderby=”id” order=”DESC” columns=”2″]

Easy Digital Downloads – Blocks

EDD Blocks adds a "Downloads" block to the new WordPress editor, also known as Gutenberg.

Pippin Williamson

Chris Klosowski

John Parris

Robin Cornett

This plugin now requires <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/" title="Easy Digital Downloads" rel="ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a> 2.9 or greater.
Once activated, EDD Auto Register will create a WordPress user account for your customer at checkout, without the need for the customer to enter any additional information. This eliminates the need for the default EDD registration form, and drastically reduces the time it takes your customers to complete their purchase.
Guest checkout is required so the plugin overrides the setting. The registration form is hidden on checkout while the plugin is active.
There are various filters available for developers, see the FAQ tab for more information.
More extensions for Easy Digital Downloads
You can find more extensions (both free and commercial) from <a href="https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/" title="Easy Digital Downloads" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy Digital Downloads’ website</a>

EDD Auto Register

I wish there was an option to enable the introduction of the password directly from the form



Works perfectly

Keep your checkout fields minimal to improve conversions while still getting your customer accounts established.

Definitely a key add-on for my EDD sites. Can't do without it now.

Great for checkout conversions

Security is sadly a topic that the EDD people to not care about. Sending clear text passwords out to people should not be done. I have fixed this with this code. This hides the field be then tells the users after the did the purchase that they should create a password. Not very user friendly, I currently had disabled it but I am thinking of activating it again because I think my sales gone down because if this.


<?php
namespace nextgenthemes\website;

add_filter( 'edd_auto_register_email_body', __NAMESPACE__ . '\\edd_auto_register_email_body', 10, 4 );

function edd_auto_register_email_body( $default_email_body, $first_name, $username, $password ) {

	// Email body
	$out = __( "Dear", "edd-auto-register" ) . ' ' . $first_name . ",\n\n";
	$out .= sprintf(
		__( "Thanks for your purchase! A account with a random password has been created for you. Please <a href='%s'>follow the lost password procedure</a> to create a secure password for your account in case you want to ask a support question or access your downloads. (For security reasons passwords are not send out in cleartext)", "nextgenthemes-website" ),
		wp_lostpassword_url()
	) . "\n\n";
	$out .= __( "Your Username:", "edd-auto-register" ) . ' ' . $username . "\n\n";

	return $out;
}




Also using emails and usernames isn't exactly great either as you can guess them form the author slugs WP generates from them.

My Idea would be so simply use javascript on checkout to fill in a random generate password on checkout automatically. WP already has a function for this. And do not display the 2nd password confirm field at all, and maybe even autofill the username field with something based on the first/last name they enter.

To elaborate on my point that this is not the first time I notice this pattern from EDD:

They had ssl_verify => false all over their code, I think its now changed it now changed some areas, or at least the is a option to verify your shops ssl. But with the software licensing extension those API calls and downloads are (or at lease were) totally unresponsively ignoring SSL altogether. Because some WP bug that was fixed like 10 years ago. Their entire attitude to simply ignore it because it may fail in some very rare cases is very bad.

It could lead to a chain reaction from a MITM attack on easydigitaldownloads.com that all extensions they ship to customers would ship from hackers sites instead with malicious code and given that many of their customers use EDD SL as well they could spread it from there. Because all the API calls simple ignor(ed) SSL! Not a security expert but at least I pay a little bit attention.

Also, and my guess is that this is very common in this industry. They do support via email and they expect you to send them passwords to your sites in cleartext!

Great Idea, bad execution.

Its horrible security to send out passwords in cleartext.

This is an excellent extension to add to Easy Digital Downloads. It eliminates confusion and friction for users when they purchase something on your site because it automatically creates an account for them and logs them in.

It's especially useful when selling online courses or memberships on your site. I use it specifically for LearnDash and it works great. Because it creates the account & logs the user in immediately after a purchase, they can begin consuming your content or taking your course right away.

Works Well. Saves Time. Eliminates Confusion.

Just wanted to stop by and say thank you for the recent updates!

I've been using this plugin for almost 2 years, and was happy that it always just worked. But, since it was never updated I was always waiting for it to crash after an update of WordPress. It didn't, fortunately. :-)

Happy to see that you guys are giving it some love again :-)

Long time user. Very excited about the recent updates!

Automatically creates a WP user account at checkout, based on customer's email address.

Easy Digital Downloads – Blocks vs EDD Auto Register