ndhaddon

Heya Donald,

The missing change log info is definitely my bad… ??

I just fixed a missing closing style tag that was causing a user some issues. It’ll be fixed in the next release.

With the sort functionality, is this an urgent issue or could it wait for a few days?

If it’s urgent I will fix it for you tomorrow evening (Sydney time) and if it’s not I will have it fixed before Monday next week.

I believe that there are custom post type sorting plugins if you need to fix it for your client before then…

Let me know what you think?

Cheers mate,

Nik

Hi,

I’m marking this as resolved as I’ve had no response from you regarding this issue.

Feel free to open a new request if you need to ??

Cheers,

Nik

Ahh, now I understand… what you want is pagination.

I’m sorry but Better File Download doesn’t have a pagination feature at present.

You could try a CPT pagination plugin like this one…
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/custom-post-type-ajax-pagnaition/

Or if you only want to show your latest downloads you can use the short code latest="5".

I might add this functionality in a later version.

I hope this helps ??

Cheers

Nik

Hi ttm2017,

How did you get on with my suggestions?

Cheers,

Nik

Hi Lipe2017,

Thanks for checking out the plugin ??

I’m not sure I understand your question but I’ll give it a shot.

It sounds like you have 60 files in your media library and want to offer them for download. To do this you would have to go to Downloads>Add New Download and create a new Better File Download for each one. You could also create a category and assign them all to the category so you would only have to put the shortcode on one page once. If you want them all to display on the same page, just use the shortcode on that page and tinker around with the styling.

Don’t forget that you can also give each one a featured image if you like and that will display just above the file name.

Does that make sense? Or did I misunderstand you completely?

Let me know what you need in detail and I’m more than happy to help ??

Cheers

Nik

Hi,

I can see that you’ve got a couple of download management plugins running at the same time. I’m not sure but there may be a conflict between them, try disabling the ones that you are not actively testing and see if that fixes the issue.

I can’t see through my browser’s dev tools that you have anything that looks like it might be a file that you’re offering for download contained in your uploads folder. Maybe just double check that you have added the download/file using Better File Download and that the ID is the same as the ID you’re using in the short code. You can copy the short code with the ID straight from either the downloads or categories admin screen.

If you could try those two ideas and let me know how you get on with it, that’d be great.

Cheers

Nik

Hi ttm2017,

I get a 404 error when I visit that page.

Have you double checked that the download ID that you’re using in the short code is the same as the download ID of the file?

If you can give me a valid URI to look at, I’ll be glad to help ??

Cheers

Nik

Glad I was able to point you in the right direction ??

Hi Donald,

I really, really don’t want to mess with peoples .htaccess files ( I spent a week performance tuning mine ) however, if you want to restrict access to the uploads folder to logged in users only you could try this approach…

https://orbisius.com/blog/restrict-access-wordpress-uploads-folder-logged-users-p3662

However… I have not tried this and do not know how effective it is.

I hope it helps ??

Nik

Hi Donald,

I’ll give it some thought but in the mean time you could try something like this post recommends…

https://www.google.com/amp/s/upstreamplugin.com/protect-image-file-uploads-wordpress/amp/

I hope it helps.

Nik

Hi,

I’m not sure what’s going on for you but I’m running the plugin on a number of sites with no download errors.

The files are stored in the uploads folder, just like any WP media library file.

If you would like a different slug, just use the category function and you can set any ol’ slug you like.

If you want to send me some screenshots or a URI, I can try to help if you like.

Cheers

Nik

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by ndhaddon.

Hey Donald,

I appologise that this took so long however, it is now an official feature. ??

In version 1.0.7, which I’ve just uploaded to the repository…

Just add latest="" to the category shortcode and put whatever you limit number id between the “”.

Once again, sorry to leave you hanging for so long.

Cheers mate.

Nik

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by ndhaddon.

Hi Seank,

Firstly, I appologise for the late reply.

Secondly, Thanks for checking out the plugin ??

Now, on to your questions…

I’m glad you got the grid sorted out, CSS really is the key to the display which is why I included the CSS guide in the settings section of the plugin.

As for alphabetising the download order.. By default WP sorts posts chronologically and as the downloads are really just a custom post type, they are sorted this way too. I have had a bit of a google around and I found this…

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Alphabetizing_Posts

The information on that page will allow you to make a change in your child theme’s category.php file to display the posts in alphabetical order.

If you want to apply it to all downloads, the post type is ‘bfd_download’

IF you just want to apply it to all categories, the category type is ‘download-categories’.

Just make sure that the code goes into the category.php file of your child theme otherwise you’ll lose the code when your theme updates.

I hope this helps ??

Cheers

Nik

Hi Kofeisen,

As I haven’t heard back from you, I am marking this as resolved. Feel free to to either reply here or open another ticket if you like. ??

Cheers

Nik

Hi Donald,

Sorry for the late reply.

I haven’t included a limit feature in the plugin as I assumed (obviously incorrectly) that users would simply limit the number of files in a category and if need be create a different category like maybe a date based one to suit their purposes.

I’m snowed under with work at the moment however, I’ll try and get this feature implemented for you within the next 10 days and I’ll get back to you when I release the update with this feature.

Cheers

Nik