Download Monitor

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🎨 Download Monitor

WPThemeDetector has detected that Download Monitor is a popular WordPress plugin, which is expertly developed by the talented author named ! It has an impressive 4.5 out of 5 ratings (based on 503 user reviews), with up to 90000 number of downloads, showcasing its wide user base and trust. : This plugin infomation is last updated on January 14, 2025.

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Plugin Name Download Monitor 🔗
Popularity Active Installs: 90000🔹Star Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 🔹User Reviews: 503
More Info Current Version: 5.0.19🔹Author: 🔹Last Updated On: December 21, 2024🔹Required WP: 6.4🔹Required PHP: 7.4
Tags digital store, download manager, ecommerce, file manager, password protection
Description

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:

  1. How to install Download Monitor
  2. How to add your first download in Download Monitor
  3. How to list your first download on your website with the download shortcode

More advanced topics that a lot of people find interesting:

  1. Learn more about the different ways you can style your download buttons
  2. Learn more about how to customize your download buttons
  3. 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/

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