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Plugin info

Total downloads: 35,849
Active installs: 1,000
Total reviews: 5
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 17 language(s)
Contributors: 2
Last updated: 4/1/2025 (274 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 5/27/2014 (11 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.0
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 274 days ago • 5 reviews

40/100

Is Easy Digital Downloads Free Link abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 274 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.0
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 5.6

Ratings

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Developers

webaware (Owner)16webaware1

Languages

Spanish (Spain)32,360Dutch30,206Russian27,196French (France)20,849Japanese14,019English (UK)9,973Chinese (China)9,700English (Canada)8,372Persian8,053Spanish (Chile)8,024English (Australia)6,825English (New Zealand)5,019English (South Africa)4,595Vietnamese3,631Albanian2,280Kurdish (Sorani)436

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Description

Replace the add-to-cart button in Easy Digital Downloads 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 Shop Front theme, the cart icon is replaced with a download icon and direct download link.

Want to see it in action? Check out the WebAware shop — it’s running this plugin.

Translations

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Installation

  1. Either install automatically through the WordPress admin, or download the .zip file, unzip to a folder, and upload the folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Read Installing Plugins in the WordPress Codex for details.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why?

Because I wanted to add my free plugins to an Easy Digital Downloads shop, without making it harder to download them from the shop than from WordPress.org plugin pages.

Are downloads logged in Easy Digital Downloads?

No. Downloads are direct from the site hosting the linked file.

Can I change the download link label?

Yes, see Downloads > Settings > Extensions. There’s also a filter hook, edd_free_link_label, if you want finer control over the link label.

Can I change the download link HTML?

Yes, there are templates. Look in the templates folder of the plugin. There’s also a filter hook, edd_free_link_template, if you want finer control over which template is used.

Review feed

Hesham Zebida
9/3/2016

Perfect for the job!

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

Screenshots

  1. Download button on a free download

    Download button on a free download

  2. Download icon on Shop Front theme home page

    Download icon on Shop Front theme home page

Changelog

The full changelog can be found on GitHub. Recent entries:

1.1.0

Released 2018-11-25

  • changed: requires minimum PHP version 5.6 (recommend version 7.2 or greater)
  • tested: WordPress 5.0
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