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 <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/" title="Easy Digital Downloads" rel="ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a>.
It adds a new option under Downloads → Settings → Misc → Button Text where you can change the text that is shown for free downloads. The default is “Free – Purchase” which is not always ideal.

EDD Free Download Text

Change the button text of a free download

Easy Digital Downloads – Blocks vs EDD Free Download Text