Easy Digital Downloads

Andrew Munro

<p>EDD Blocks adds a “Downloads” block to the new WordPress editor, also known as Gutenberg.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>As well as being able to display downloads, a grid of Download Categories or Download Tags can be shown.</p>
<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>
<p>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:</p>
<p><strong>thumbnails</strong></p>
<p>true (default) | false</p>
<p>Whether or not to show the thumbnail image.</p>
<p><strong>title</strong></p>
<p>true (default) | false</p>
<p>Whether or not to show the category or tag name.</p>
<p><strong>description</strong></p>
<p>true (default) | false</p>
<p>Whether or not to show the category or tag description.</p>
<p><strong>show_empty</strong></p>
<p>true | false (default)</p>
<p>Whether or not to show empty terms.</p>
<p><strong>columns</strong></p>
<p>1 | 2 | 3 (default) | 4 | 5 | 6</p>
<p>The number of columns.</p>
<p><strong>count</strong></p>
<p>true (default) | false</p>
<p>Whether or not to show the number of downloads in each term.</p>
<p><strong>orderby</strong></p>
<p>count (default) | id | name | slug</p>
<p>What to order the terms by.</p>
<p><strong>order</strong></p>
<p>ASC | DESC (default)</p>
<p>In which order to display the terms.</p>
<p><strong>Shortcode examples</strong></p>
<p>[download_categories count=”false” orderby=”name” order=”ASC” title=”false” columns=”4″]</p>
<p>[download_tags orderby=”id” order=”DESC” columns=”2″]</p>


Easy Digital Downloads – Blocks

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

<p>This plugin requires <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/" title="Easy Digital Downloads" rel="ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a> v2.5 or higher. This plugin allows you to add extra images to your downloads. Use the included shortcode or template tag to display the images on your website. Developers can also use this plugin to get an array of the images and display the images any way they wish (eg slideshow).</p>
<h4>Shortcode Usage</h4>
<pre><code>[edd_download_images]
</code></pre>
<h4>Template Tag Usage</h4>
<pre><code>if( function_exists( 'edd_di_display_images') ) {
    edd_di_display_images();
}
</code></pre>
<h4>Filtering the HTML</h4>
<p>To alter the HTML, the following filter is provided (example shows an extra <code><div></code> being added around image). Paste this into your functions.php and modify $html to your liking:</p>
<pre><code>function themename_edd_di_display_images( $html, $download_image ) {
    // here a div tag is wrapped around each image
    $html = '<div><img class="edd-di-image" src="' . $download_image['image'] . '" /></div>';
    return $html;
}
add_filter( 'edd_di_display_images', 'themename_edd_di_display_images', 10, 2 );
</code></pre>
<h4>Developers</h4>
<p>To get the array of images from the Database you can use the following. This will be useful if you’d like to build a slideshow to show all the download’s images:</p>
<pre><code>$images = ( function_exists('edd_di_get_images') ) ? edd_di_get_images() : '';

// see the images in the array
var_dump( $images );
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Plugins for Easy Digital Downloads</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://easydigitaldownloads.com/extensions/" title="Plugins for Easy Digital Downloads" rel="nofollow ugc">https://easydigitaldownloads.com/extensions/</a></p>


EDD Download Images

You can do whatever you want, which gives great versatility to the plugin



Really useful and customizable

Easily add extra download images and display them.

Easy Digital Downloads – Blocks vs EDD Download Images