Plugin info

Total downloads: 52,355
Active installs: 2,000
Total reviews: 12
Average rating: 4.6
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 11/28/2017 (2954 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 8/29/2013 (12 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.5
Tested up to WordPress version: 4.1.42
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Possibly abandoned • Last updated 2954 days ago • 12 reviews

24/100

Is WP Downloader abandoned?

Possibly abandoned (last update 2954 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.5
Tested up to: 4.1.42
Requires PHP: f

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Description

Features

  • displays a ‘Download’ link for
    • all installed plugins (in action links on ‘Plugins’ page)
    • all installed themes (on ‘Appearance’ page, also in wordpress 3.8 or higher)

Idea

I wrote this plugin to simplify and improve code downloading when developing on a playground with contributors. With this plugin you can get complete package with other plugin or theme you are working on in one click. You can also use it to share your code with someone without downloading it via ftp, manually zipping and then sending it in e-mail or uploading the package back to your server or anything else… just tell him to click the link!

There are some other methods for this, there are advanced plugins which has such a feature to download other plugins, but I hope someone will find my code usefull as it is very simple in action and the simplest in use.

This plugin uses PclZip class integrated with WordPress.

Many thanks to Viktor Szépe for the idea of how to inject links on the appearance page in new wordpress UI (3.8 or higher).
Hehe is the code used as an inspiration for the current version of WP Downloader.

Installation

  1. Unpack wp-downloader.zip and upload its content to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Plugin is working. You can see ‘Download’ links for every plugin and theme.

Frequently Asked Questions

Installation Instructions

  1. Unpack wp-downloader.zip and upload its content to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Plugin is working. You can see ‘Download’ links for every plugin and theme.

Review feed

Qasim Jan
9/3/2016

Like it

i was worry about plugin to download. i installed and it download plugin i needed.
Philipp Bammes
10/16/2018

Still works perfectly

I needed to download plugins and themes from a website I didn't had SSH/FTP access to. This little plugin helped me a lot and got the job done flawlessly.
Marat Nepomnyashy
7/12/2019

Yes still works

I successfully downloaded a theme installed onto WordPress 5.1.1 using this plugin.

Screenshots

No screenshots available

Changelog

2.0

  • Added hack to display download links on the new themes page (wordpress 3.8 or higher)
  • Few improvements in the code

1.1

  • Added ‘download’ link for currently selected theme

1.0

  • Initial release