Download Monitor
Add to ListFeatures
- Track downloads: For tracking downloads of a specific file and how may times have been attempted.
- Download template: Different download templates are available with further more options, adding categorization, tags to downloads
- Add-ons: Add-ons for extra features like “Restrict Content Pro Integration”
- Download options: Download endpoint customization, setting endpoint value
- Blacklist: Blacklist IPs, Blacklist user agents
- Download log & count: User download attempts log and download counts tracking, and also members only downloads
- Multiple file support: Supports multiple file versions per download
Support
The plugin is well documented, Up until now 4 out of 42 support threads have been resolved, sadly support for this free version is no longer available; the developer Mike Jolley provides support to only premium version of this plugin. However If find any bug do knock him on his Github page. Mike Jolley published a new download monitor plugin with improved features quite a while ago. You can try that out.Plugin ver- 1.4.2
WordPress ver- 3.8.1
Tested on 19 March 2014
System configuration: 1 core processsor, Memory - 512mb, 20gb SSD Disk
Download Monitor provides an interface for uploading and managing downloadable files (including support for multiple versions), inserting download links into posts and logging downloads!
Features
- Add, edit and remove downloads from a familiar WP interface; Your downloads are just like posts.
- Sell your downloads from within your WordPress website!
- 100% Gutenberg compatible, including a new Download Monitor Download Block. Type /download to use it!
- Quick-add panel for adding downloads / files whilst editing posts.
- Add multiple file versions to your downloads each with their own data like download count and file links.
- Define alternative links (mirrors) per download version.
- Categorize, tag, or add other meta to your downloads.
- Display download links on the frontend using shortcodes.
- Change the way download links get displayed via template files.
- Track downloads counts and log user download attempts.
- Member only downloads, requires users to be logged in to download your files.
- Customisable endpoints for showing pretty download links.
Download Monitor has been featured on the websites of some of the most popular and leading businesses in the WordPress ecosystem, such as WPBeginner, Pagely, Jilt, WP Fusion & Kinsta.
Download Monitor Extensions
- Buttons: Create beautiful, fully customizable download buttons for your files.
- Downloading Page: Serve your downloads from a separate page.
- Google Drive: Lets you use the files hosted on your Google Drive as Download Monitor files.
- Advanced Access Manager: Create advanced download limitations per download and on a global level.
- Email Notification: Trigger an email notification whenever one of your files is downloaded.
- Page Addon: List downloads, categories, tags, and show info pages about each of your resources using a simple shortcode.
- Lock downloads option: Set restrictions to your download functionality using MailChimp Lock, Email Lock, CAPTCHA,
- Gravity Forms Gated Content: easily create a download gate with Gravity Forms. Require users to fill-in a form before accessing a download.
- Ninja Forms Lock: if you are an user of Ninja Forms, you can also use this to require users to fill-in of a form before accesing a download.
- WPForms Gated Content: gate your downloads by first requesting users to submit a form build using WPForms.
- Contact Form 7 Lock: request the submission of a Contact Form 7 form before providing access to the download.
Documentation
We have a large Knowledge Base on our Download Monitor website that contains documentation about how to how to setup and use Download Monitor.
Are you a new Download Monitor user? Read these articles on how to get your files ready for download with Download Monitor:
- How to install Download Monitor
- How to add your first download in Download Monitor
- How to list your first download on your website with the download shortcode
More advanced topics that a lot of people find interesting:
- Learn more about the different ways you can style your download buttons
- Learn more about how to customize your download buttons
- Learn more about what actions and filters are available in Download Monitor
Contributing and reporting bugs
You can contribute code to this plugin via GitHub: https://github.com/WPChill/download-monitor
You can contribute localizations via Transifex https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/download-monitor/
NEED HELP USING DOWNLOAD MONITOR?
– Search our extensive knowledge base for documentation about installing the plugin/the extensions, available settings and how to use them.
– Browse Download monitor’s WordPress forum to find answers to your queries or create a new topic.
– Contact us directly for support.
3rd party or external service disclaimer
The plugin connects to our website through an API call (https://download-monitor.com/?dlm-all-extensions=true) in order to request a list of available extensions.
IT DOES NOT SEND ANY DATA NOR DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM THE REQUEST
Our privacy policy can be found at this URL https://download-monitor.com/privacy-policy/