Lester Chan

<h3>General Usage</h3>
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<li>You Need To Re-Generate The Permalink <code>WP-Admin -> Settings -> Permalinks -> Save Changes</code></li>
<li>To embed a specific file to be downloaded into a post/page, use <code>[download id="2"]</code> where 2 is your file id.</li>
<li>To embed multiple files to be downloaded into a post/page, use <code>[download id="1,2,3"]</code> where 1,2,3 are your file ids.</li>
<li>To limit the number of embedded downloads shown for each post in a post stream, use the <code>stream_limit</code> option.
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<li>Example: <code>[download id="2" stream_limit="4"]</code></li>
<li>This will only display the first 4 downloads for the post when rendered in a post stream, and display the full list of downloads when viewing the single post.</li>
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<li>To sort embedded downloads, use the <code>sort_by</code> and <code>sort_order</code> options.
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<li>Example: <code>[download id="2" sort_by="file_id" sort_order="asc"]</code></li>
<li>This will sort the embedded downloads by file ID in ascending order.</li>
<li>Valid values for <code>sort_by</code> are: <code>file_id</code>, <code>file</code>, <code>file_name</code>, <code>file_size</code>, <code>file_date</code>, and <code>file_hits</code></li>
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<li>To choose what to display within the embedded file, use <code>[download id="1" display="both"]</code> where 1 is your file id and both will display both the file name and file desccription, whereas name will only display the filename. Note that this will overwrite the “Download Embedded File” template you have in your Download Templates.</li>
<li>To embed files as well as categories, use <code>[download id="1,2,3" category="4,5,6"]</code> where 1,2,3 are your file id and 4,5,6 are your category ids.</li>
<li>If you are using Default Permalinks, the file direct download link will be <code>http://yoursite.com/index.php?dl_id=2</code>. If you are using Nice Permalinks, the file direct download link will be <code>http://yoursite.com/download/2/</code>, where yoursite.com is your WordPress URL and 2 is your file id.</li>
<li>The direct download category link will be <code>http://yoursite.com/downloads/?dl_cat=3</code>, where yoursite.com is your WordPress URL, downloads is your Downloads Page name and 3 is your download category id.</li>
<li>In order to upload the files straight to the downloads folder, the folder must be first CHMOD to 777. You can specify which folder to be the downloads folder in Download Options.</li>
<li>You can configure the Download Options in <code>WP-Admin -> Downloads -> Download Options</code></li>
<li>You can configure the Download Templates in <code>WP-Admin -> Downloads -> Download Templates</code></li>
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<h3>Downloads Page</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to <code>WP-Admin -> Pages -> Add New</code></li>
<li>Type any title you like in the post’s title area</li>
<li>If you <code>ARE</code> using nice permalinks, after typing the title, WordPress will generate the permalink to the page. You will see an ‘Edit’ link just beside the permalink.</li>
<li>Click ‘Edit’ and type in <code>downloads</code> in the text field and click ‘Save’.</li>
<li>Type <code>[page_download]</code> in the post’s content area.</li>
<li>You can also use <code>[page_download category="1"]</code>, this will display all downloads in Category ID 1.</li>
<li>Click ‘Publish’</li>
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<h3>Download Stats (With Widgets)</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to <code>WP-Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets</code></li>
<li>The widget name is <code>Downloads</code>.</li>
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<h3>Development</h3>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-downloadmanager" title="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-downloadmanager" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-downloadmanager</a></li>
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<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-downloadmanager/i18n/" title="http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-downloadmanager/i18n/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-downloadmanager/i18n/</a></li>
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<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Plugin icon by <a href="http://www.freepik.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Freepik</a> from <a href="http://www.flaticon.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Flaticon</a></li>
<li>Icons courtesy of <a href="http://www.famfamfam.com/" title="FamFamFam" rel="nofollow ugc">FamFamFam</a></li>
<li>Download Icon by <a href="http://www.imvain.com/"" title="Ryan Zimmerman" rel="nofollow ugc">Ryan Zimmerman</a></li>
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<h3>Donations</h3>
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<li>I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.</li>
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WP-DownloadManager

Adds a simple download manager to your WordPress blog.

maennchen1.de

<p>This plugin easily displays the folders and files from a selected directory. It can be placed by shortcode with the parameters path and target in any post. Uploads must be done by a separate ftp program. No managing options.</p>
<ul>
<li>compatible up to PHP 8.3.20</li>
<li>need PHP extension <a href="http://php.net/mb_string" rel="nofollow ugc">mb_string</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>available optional shortcode parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li>path = directory path, starting by web root (default: wp-content/uploads/)</li>
<li>target = browser window name</li>
<li>sort = by name ASC/DESC (default: ASC)</li>
<li>sort-order = filename/filetype/ftime/filetime/foldertime (default: filename)</li>
<li>label = custom top level label</li>
<li>nosize = displays no file size</li>
<li>hidedirs = displays no folders, only files</li>
<li>filetype = (comma separated list) filter files by their extension</li>
<li>hidefiletype = (comma separated list) hide files with filetype</li>
<li>hidefilename = (comma separated list) hide named files and folders</li>
<li>noext = hide the file extensions</li>
<li>nobreadcrumb = hide breadcrumb / title</li>
<li>ftime = display file and folder modification date and time (standard = “1” or use date formatting like “Y-m-d H:i”), see <a href="http://php.net/date" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP date formatting</a></li>
<li>filetime = same as ftime, just for files</li>
<li>foldertime = same as ftime, just for folders</li>
</ul>
<p>(most of it can be combined together)</p>
<h4>shortcode examples</h4>
<ol>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>: <code>[m1dll]</code> </li>
<li>displays content of <code>your/foldername/here/</code>: <code>[m1dll path="your/foldername/here/"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>your/foldername/here/</code> and sort descending: <code>[m1dll path="your/foldername/here/" sort="DESC"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>your/foldername/here/</code>, open files in a new window: <code>[m1dll path="your/foldername/here/" target="_blank"]</code> </li>
<li>displays content of <code>your/foldername/here/</code>, change label ‘downloads’ to ‘our downloads’: <code>[m1dll path="your/foldername/here/" label="our downloads"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, displays no file size: <code>[m1dll nosize="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, displays no folders: <code>[m1dll hidedirs="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, displays only pdf- and docx-documents: <code>[m1dll filetype="pdf,docx"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, do not display pdf- and docx-documents: <code>[m1dll hidefiletype="pdf,docx"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, do not display file secret.txt and secret.docx: <code>[m1dll hidefilename="secret.txt,secret.docx"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, displays no file extensions: <code>[m1dll noext="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, displays no breadcrumb: <code>[m1dll nobreadcrumb="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, with file and folder time with own format <code>[m1dll ftime="Y-m-d, H:i"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, with file and folder date and time (standard from WordPress) <code>[m1dll ftime="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, with file and folder self formated date <code>[m1dll ftime="Y-m-d"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, with file date and time (standard from WordPress) <code>[m1dll filetime="1"]</code></li>
<li>displays content of <code>wp-content/uploads/</code>, with folder date and time (standard from WordPress) <code>[m1dll foldertime="1"]</code></li>
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m1.DownloadList

This plugin easily displays the folders and files from a selected directory. It can be placed by shortcode in any post.

WP-DownloadManager vs m1.DownloadList