Eric Mann

WP Publication Archive adds a custom content type for storing, tagging, and categorizing downloadable content external to standard WordPress posts and pages. You can add downloadable PDF files, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations. These files will be stored in the standard WordPress uploads directory but will be managed separately through a custom post type interface in the WordPress admin area.
<h3>Licenses</h3>
WP Publication Archive is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
This system was based on the original wp-publications-archive plug-in published by Luis Lino and Siemens Networks, S.A. at http://code.google.com/p/wp-publications-archive/.
The filing cabinet menu icon was created by Glyphish (http://glyphish.com) and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
Filetype icons come from the Crystal Project (http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/) released under the LGPL (http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/?action=license).

WP Publication Archive

Allows users to upload, manage, search, and download publications, documents, and similar content (PDF, Power-Point, etc.).

smartredfox

The Pretty File Lister plugin lists files attached to the current post of page. All you need to do is add the shortcode to your page or post, specify the types of files you want displayed, and pick the number of files you want per page. You can purchase <a href="http://www.smartredfox.com/pretty-file-links-wordpress-plugin/style-pack-for-pretty-file-links/" rel="nofollow ugc">additional styles</a>, and see examples at <a href="http://www.smartredfox.com/pretty-file-lister/" rel="nofollow ugc">SmartRedFox.com</a>.
Shortcode format is [prettyfilelist type=”xls,pdf” filesperpage=”5″]. Options for the file type are excel,pdf,doc,zip,ppt.

Pretty file list

A plugin that lists files attached to the current post/page.

WP Publication Archive vs Pretty file list