How to get a count of files downloaded

  • I am developing my first WordPress site. My site has a download page that has two download links for the users to download their choice of two files. The site has the Download Monitor plugin installed. This works. What I would like to do now is to get a count of how many times these files have been downloaded once I go live with the site. I’ve done some searching but I can’t find anything about how to set up retrieval of the file counts. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on counting files with Download Monitor or explain how to go about it?

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by projecttoday.
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  • Hello!

    Download Monitor already has a feature that counts downloads, as they specify on the plugin’s page:

    Track downloads counts and log user download attempts.

    Check their knowledge base, if you’re having trouble figuring it out – https://www.download-monitor.com/kb/

    Thread Starter projecttoday

    (@projecttoday)

    Where is the plugin’s page? On the dashboard? Or do you mean Download Monitor’s website? I also do not see “track downloads counts and log user download attempts” anywhere. This makes me suspect that maybe I an not using Download Monitor for my downloads. Download Monitor is installed and activated but I don’t think that means the download links necessarily work via Download Monitor. So how would I confirm that I’m actually using Download Monitor for these 2 particular downloads?

    Searching the knowledge base on “counts” turned up nothing and searching on “logs” turned up a page about Advanced Access Manager which doesn’t mention counts.

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