view and downoad links not working

  • the view and download links do not seem to work. they just link to the single post and not the actual file. anyone else have this issue?

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  • I’m having I think a similar problem.
    This plugin has been working for years and all of a sudden it’s giving me problems. When I click on the date to open the document, it opens ether in Word or PDF but no data, (no text). I know I have the correct URL because if I copy it and past it into the browser it will open. I noticed this plugin hasn’t been updated in 4 years, too bad. With all the recent WP updates and my theme (Weaver II pro) updates looks like it all might have caught up.
    Your thoughts.
    Don

    mukeshwani

    (@mukeshwani)

    Unfortunately developers stop updating plugins. However there are plenty of better alternatives now which work better than this plugin. But migrating your downloads will be long task. I was also using this plugin for years on my site when it broke all of a sudden. Reading the error it seems to have something to do with how URLs are masked and perhaps WordPress core or how SSL is verified. To fix the issue I added this line of code to the theme functions.php file:
    add_filter( ‘wppa_mask_url’, ‘__return_false’ );
    This resolved my issue. This command basically disables the friendly URL to send back to the user. Instead it uses the actual file path. This worked for me, hope it works for you.

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