Its file management system lets you track, manage, control file downloads on your WordPress site. There are many add-ons available. Most of these are free while others are premium. As the name suggests, Download Monitor helps you monitor your downloadable files. It supports multiple file versions. You can insert download links into posts. It allows you to keep a log of your downloads. It has more than , active installations and a 4.
Download Monitor is definitely the one plugin you must consider before finalizing one for yourself. The plugin is free to download in the WordPress Plugin Repository. Easy Digital Downloads is definitely a strong contender when it comes to Download manager plugins for WordPress. It has a range of extensions that adds to its functionality. This plugin has more than 60, active installations.
It has simple and elegant interface and can be easily used even by beginners. It has Windows-styled GUI , context menu right click menu shortcuts and image editing capabilities. Groups File Access is a WordPress plugin that allows to provide file download links for authorized users. Access to files is restricted to users by their group membership. With Groups File Access you can provide file downloads for Premium Members or allow only registered users to download files from your site. Access to files is restricted by group membership.
To be able to download a file, a user must be a member of a group that is assigned to the file. Simple Download Monitor will help you to easily manage downloadable files and monitor downloads from your WordPress site.
This plugin is very useful for managing and tracking your digital file download counts. You can password protect your downloadable files and documents too visitors will require a password before downloading the file when you use this option.
There is an option to show an ajax file tree browser so your visitors can browse all your files and download the ones they want. WP File Manager is a free plugin to edit, delete, upload, download, copy and paste files and folders directly from the WordPress backend. You can easily copy, move files folder or any files from one location to another location without using FTP.
WordPress Download Monitor provides an interface for uploading and managing downloadable files including support for multiple versions , inserting download links into posts, and logging downloads. Advance File Manager is a tool for WordPress files management. Features included with edit, delete, upload, delete, download, zip, copy etc multiple operations, No need of any cpanel and FTP.
You can access files inside and outside WordPress root directory. File Manager is a powerful and user-friendly WordPress plugin. You can upload, delete, copy, move, rename, archive, extract files.
It is really simple and easy to use. Just install the plugin following standard WordPress plugin install process.
All the file management in one place. Last but not least, CM Download Manager helps you to upload, manage, track, and support documents of files in a directory. It restricts an unauthorized person to download your files and provides a strong password to all your downloaded files. So if you want some additional features, you can upgrade your plugin to the premium.
All of them come with outstanding features with which you can easily manage your download. These Plugins come with a list of options, so get the one as per your requirements. I am sure with these above WordPress Download Manager Plugins, you can keep your downloads protected. I hope you get this article helpful to you and can get the best WordPress Download Manager Plugins for your site.
If you are getting any trouble regarding these Plugins, feel free to send your queries via the comment section. We will get back to you with your solution as soon as possible. Keep visiting our site for more useful articles. Skip to content. NRKey, actually in some situation where client need help in setup we need access to his site, that is the regular way, atleast he can create a test environment and give us access. As we know the plugin is fully functional for many other users and suddenly someone claims its not functioning for him, we atleast need a proof and he should give us a chance to check.
He also posted it in wordpress. And they have already lost business from two people who have asked me about their plugin and wanted to learn more about my experience with the company. What do you think my recommendation was? The update that was supposed to be out in July to fix most issues is still nowhere to be seen. Use with caution and test thoroughly before buying. Will do. Thanks for this page though — am currently investigating the others so resources like this are hugely appreciated!
I would like a plugin which handles uploads from members by putting the upload into a category, probably by means of a form with upload capabilities. From there I want other members to be able to download those uploaded files. I have searched the web and as yet not found any plugins that do this job. Can you help? Plus it looks clunky and was quite difficult to place then in a page.
You could create a custom post type and then use Gravity Forms to create the file uploads form directly into that custom post type. A member management plugin would then be required to handle which users can download the files. I am looking for similar plugin that would let a member to upload files.
If you happen to find one, could you please share? WP-Client was designed from the ground up to serve many of the needs requested in this stream of comments. Something where users can buy a tax service maybe in a shopping cart system , upload a document, and get back their tax service prepared.
Great post! They will then receive the tax service via email. Alternatively take a look at Easy Digital Downloads which is geared specificially for digital services. Bdw could your post your question as a comment on that post so it will be helpful to other users who are searching for something similar?
I will then reply there. New to wordpress, and wondering if I am looking in the right direction. I wish to do the following: have a directory with a number of documents, will be named with identifiers have users logon to the website user clicks on link, is directed to page page has list of files that correspond to user, based on identifiers.
Thanks for your effort! I find that the easiest way for my users to upload documents in articles is to use the built-in media manager not very organised, I know. However, I would like to list the documents they attach, in a widget. Do you know of any plugin or widget that would list the documents for a complete category? Hello, I enjoy reading all of your article post. I wanted to write a little comment to support you.
For example, there are different form fields, one just need to key in the form fields, and all these will be captured and show in a post in a structured and predefined manner.
The reason is so that different authors will be able to post with a standard template and more structural in a way. Have you had a look at podsframework. Now that Angela mentions it, yes that would be an excellent solution. I think Gravity forms can also accommodate this when combined with Custom Post Types. The files I want to make available for download are created as the result of a non-logged in user,s form inputs i.
So I am looking for a download manager that has a broad enough API that it can automaticially add a new download file via the API ideally using a product template to the the files, price and control features are copied from.
Do any of these do that?? Appreciate the post! Just wanted to show some love for taking the time to write this article. Very helpful.
Hi, i am looking for a solution for people to put upload file to out ftp server. Jean Any suggestions if I need an alert on file expiration, When file expires I need a notification email sent out to the admin that the file is about to expire.
So each product will have graphics files and branding guides and perhaps even a few videos. I would really like to be able to show thumbnails automatically generated of course of all files or the file type icon and an option to download or preview. Primarily as a repository for uploads and downloads but again with nice thumbnails and previews.
Thanks for this extensive list. I have become the new webmaster for my club site, and as such, and trying some new things. We currently have a very archaic site that has to be updated each time a document is added, such as monthly meeting minutes, or a news letter. I am looking to replace that with something more dynamic, using WordPress as the front end. It seems several of the plug ins you mentioned here would do the trick, so I am curios which one would be the best.
I manage and Institute at the University of Houston and we have lots of corporate members who have authored white papers and other studies.
They want to be able to share these documents with people in our industry. What tool would be the most effective way to gather these documents and allow people to log in and download whatever they are interested in. It was discontinued for a while, now there is a new version, updated the post, thanks for reminding me. Hi nice post Came across your site when searching for a plugin or maybe a mix of plugins to achieve the following..
If the link self expires would be desired too. You know of such functionalities? Their service is the absolute worst I have ever seen.
Hi, is there a download manager so user get 1 on 1 sharing. Great article, thanks for sharing. These is a lot of useful information to take away from this post. Perfect for folks who have clients who have staff.
Remember, I have NOT purchased or installed, just going by feature-set. I want to put premium content such as white papers behind a registration form. This premium content will be written by various third party authors, and I want to share the contact info of my members with the authors whose content got them to sign up.
For example, an author will write Paper A, so I want to be able to identify every member who downloaded Paper A and share that with her, but not members who only downloaded Paper B. My question is, which of these plugins will allow me to export a csv file containing email addresses of everybody who downloaded a particular file? WordPress Download Manager has all the features you need there. Came across your site when searching for a plugin,Appreciate the post!
Useful article, but its not economy for big sites like movie sites. I using big and unlimited free storage like megafile to upload and keep my files. Then i use uploaded link to share on my site content. Its my experience on data storage, finally because of economy reason you need a trustable free storage. Thank you for this overview of document management plugins. I was looking for document management plugins to create a system that meet ISO standards. I have been using professional DMS software before, but I think it has to be possible to compose the same thing using wordpress as a CMS.
That one might be interesting reviewing. You can use the external document server and call lists of documents at your website.
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