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With this plugin, you can easily hide or show your Easy Digital Downloads product/download from the frontend display with just a click.
This plugin requires <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/" title="Easy Digital Downloads" rel="ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a>.
It allows you to: 
1. Hide a download so it doesn’t appear on the custom post type archive page, anywhere where the [downloads] shortcode is being used, or any custom query on a page template. 
2. Prevent direct access to the download. The browser will redirect the user to the site’s homepage. 
3. Do a combination of hiding the download and preventing direct access to it.
Filter example 
Example filter of how you can change the redirect based on the download ID. Copy this function to your child theme’s functions.php or custom plugin
<pre><code><?php code(function thsedd_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect( $url ) {
 // download has ID of 32
 if ( '32' == get_the_ID() ) {
 $url = 'http://easydigitaldownloads.com'; // redirect user to another external URL
 }

 // download has ID of 12
 if( '12' == get_the_ID() ) {
 $url = get_permalink( '12' ); // redirect to another download which has an ID of 8
 }

 // return our new URL
 return $url;
 }
 add_filter( 'edd_thsedd_download_redirect', 'thsedd_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect' );); ?>
</code></pre>
Example filter of how you can globally change the redirect. Copy this function to your child theme’s functions.php or custom plugin
<pre><code><?php code(function thsedd_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect( $url ) {
 $url = get_permalink( '12' ); // redirect to another download, post or page

 return $url;
 }
 add_filter( 'edd_thsedd_download_redirect', 'thsedd_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect' );); ?>
</code></pre>

EDD Hide Show Download

Allows a download to be hidden as well as preventing direct access to the download

webaware

Replace the add-to-cart button in <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/" rel="ugc">Easy Digital Downloads</a> with a direct link to the download file when the product is free and has only one file. This only works when the file is an external link to a web-accessible file.
For archive pages on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/shop-front" rel="ugc">Shop Front theme</a>, the cart icon is replaced with a download icon and direct download link.
Want to see it in action? Check out the <a href="https://shop.webaware.com.au/" rel="nofollow ugc">WebAware shop</a> — it’s running this plugin.
<h3>Translations</h3>
Many thanks to the generous efforts of our translators:
<ul>
<li>Albanian (sq) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/sq/default/wp-plugins/easy-digital-downloads-free-link" rel="nofollow ugc">the Albanian translation team</a></li>
<li>Chinese (zh_CN) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/zh-cn/default/wp-plugins/easy-digital-downloads-free-link" rel="nofollow ugc">the Chinese (simplified) translation team</a></li>
<li>English (en_CA) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/en-ca/default/wp-plugins/easy-digital-downloads-free-link" rel="nofollow ugc">the English (Canadian) translation team</a></li>
<li>English (en_GB) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/en-gb/default/wp-plugins/easy-digital-downloads-free-link" rel="nofollow ugc">the English (British) translation team</a></li>
<li>French (fr_FR) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/fr/default/wp-plugins/easy-digital-downloads-free-link" rel="nofollow ugc">the French translation team</a></li>
<li>Hungarian (hu_HU) — <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/theguitarlesson/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tom Vicces</a></li>
<li>Japanese (ja) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/ja/default/wp-plugins/easy-digital-downloads-free-link" rel="nofollow ugc">the Japanese translation team</a></li>
<li>Norwegian: Bokmål (nb_NO) — <a href="http://www.neonnero.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">neonnero</a></li>
<li>Norwegian: Nynorsk (nn_NO) — <a href="http://www.neonnero.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">neonnero</a></li>
</ul>
If you’d like to help out by translating this plugin, please <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/easy-digital-downloads-free-link" rel="nofollow ugc">sign up for an account and dig in</a>.

Easy Digital Downloads Free Link

This works great for my needs, I wanted to have a simple link, and this extension does it.



Perfect for the job!

replace EDD add-to-cart button with download link when product is free

EDD Hide Show Download vs Easy Digital Downloads Free Link