Lester Chan

<h3>General Usage</h3>
<ol>
<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.
<ol>
<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>
</ol>
</li>
<li>To sort embedded downloads, use the <code>sort_by</code> and <code>sort_order</code> options.
<ol>
<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>
</ol>
</li>
<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>
</ol>
<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>
</ol>
<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>
</ol>
<h3>Development</h3>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
<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>
</ul>
<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>
</ul>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>


WP-DownloadManager

Adds a simple download manager to your WordPress blog.

eugenealegiojo

<p>The plugin that will let admin user to add download links to any posts/pages in simplest way and hassle free.<br />
Allows all your site visitors to download any files from your website without any user restriction.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Downloader button is available in your admin content editor for post, page or post type. Shortcode will be generated automatically.</li>
<li>Insert download links manually via shortcode [media-downloader] to any posts, pages or custom post types. Check for more parameters below (Embedding).</li>
<li>Allow users to directly download in all file formats for free.</li>
<li>No file size limit for downloads.<br />
For more information please check the <a href="http://phplugins.softanalyzer.com/simple-file-downloader/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple File Downloader</a> documentation page</li>
</ul>
<h4>Embedding / generated Shortcodes</h4>
<p>Create a new post/page and click the ‘Add Download’ button from the content editor, then generate the shortcode below:</p>
<pre><code>[media-downloader media_id="9" texts="Download Now!"]
</code></pre>
<p>Media id is automatically added from your media library.</p>
<p>Here are the all the available parameters when generating shortcode for file download:</p>
<p><strong>texts</strong></p>
<p>If you choose to leave the texts parameter empty, then it be defaulted to ‘Download File’.</p>
<p><strong>image_url</strong></p>
<p>You can also use image/button as your download link. If you supplied this parameter, then <strong>texts</strong> parameter will be replaced by this image.</p>
<pre><code>[media-downloader media_id="9" image_url="http://domain.com/wp-content/themes/images/button.png"]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>class</strong></p>
<p>You can add class to your download link either a texts or image button. This is useful if you want to apply your own style.</p>
<pre><code>[media-downloader media_id="9" texts="Download PDF" class="download-pdf"]
</code></pre>
<p><strong>display_filesize</strong></p>
<p>You also have an option to display the size of the file. Just set it to ‘yes’</p>
<pre><code>[media-downloader media_id="9" texts="Download PDF" display_filesize="yes"]
</code></pre>


Simple File Downloader

Simplest way to add download links into your posts/pages.

WP-DownloadManager vs Simple File Downloader