Easy Digital Downloads

Andrew Munro

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.

This plugin requires both <a href="https://easydigitaldownloads.com/extensions/edd-wish-lists/?ref=166" title="EDD Wish Lists" rel="nofollow ugc">EDD Wish Lists</a> & <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/" title="Easy Digital Downloads" rel="ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a>. It will NOT function without them.
EDD Favorites is a plugin for EDD Wish Lists that allows your customers to “favorite” downloads. With 1 click (and another click to remove) the download is instantly added to the user’s favorites.
What’s the difference between EDD Wish Lists and EDD Favorites?
With EDD Wish lists, you click the “add to wish list” link and choose a list (or create a new one) from the modal window. It also works with variable pricing. EDD favorites is for quickly adding/removing downloads to a single list with 1 click. It doesn’t support variable pricing, meaning you cannot add a specific price to the favorites list, instead it adds the entire download.
More plugins for Easy Digital Downloads
You can find more EDD plugins (both free and commercial) on the <a href="https://easydigitaldownloads.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy Digital Downloads’</a> website.

EDD Favorites

Is a great addition to EDD Wish List plugin



Works perfectly

Favorite/Unfavorite downloads in Easy Digital Downloads with just 1 click.

Easy Digital Downloads – Blocks vs EDD Favorites