Download Monitor

Download Monitor is a professional solution for tracking file downloads.

It helps webmasters with a quick and easy file publishing system that provides logging features as well.

Download Monitor allows admins to see what files are successful and what not, manage different file versions and use a different templates for their frontend download center.

All in all, a very complete solution for making sure you don't lose sight of your public downloadable files.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

What is new in this release:

• New Feature:
• Added 'Download Information' meta box to edit download screen that displays useful download information.
• Error message shown when visitor has no access to download is now an option.
• Fixed:
• A bug where versions with spaces did not work, versions now are checked on a sanitized title.
• Tweaks:
• Viewing logs now needs custom capability: dlm_manage_logs (automatically added to administrators).
• Improved hotlink prevention check.
• Extension page tweaks.
• Added $download_id argument to dlm_hotlink_redirect filter.
• Moved hash settings to their own tab.
• Moved 'X-Accel-Redirect / X-Sendfile' and 'Prevent hotlinking' settings to General tab.
• Optimized the Insert Download button.
• Introduced a multi-byte-safe pathinfo so we can handle 'special' filenames.
• Also set the post_date_gmt value for version dates.
• Updated French translation. Props Li-An.
• Updated German translation. Props maphy-psd.
• Updated Swedish translation. Props EyesX.
• Update Slovakian translation. Props attitude.
• Added Dutch translation.

What is new in version 1.7.0:

• New Feature:
• Added 'Download Information' meta box to edit download screen that displays useful download information.
• Error message shown when visitor has no access to download is now an option.
• Fixed:
• A bug where versions with spaces did not work, versions now are checked on a sanitized title.
• Tweaks:
• Viewing logs now needs custom capability: dlm_manage_logs (automatically added to administrators).
• Improved hotlink prevention check.
• Extension page tweaks.
• Added $download_id argument to dlm_hotlink_redirect filter.
• Moved hash settings to their own tab.
• Moved 'X-Accel-Redirect / X-Sendfile' and 'Prevent hotlinking' settings to General tab.
• Optimized the Insert Download button.
• Introduced a multi-byte-safe pathinfo so we can handle 'special' filenames.
• Also set the post_date_gmt value for version dates.
• Updated French translation. Props Li-An.
• Updated German translation. Props maphy-psd.
• Updated Swedish translation. Props EyesX.
• Update Slovakian translation. Props attitude.
• Added Dutch translation.

What is new in version 1.6.3:

• Implemented auto loader.
• Classes are no longer initiated at bottom of class file but whenever an object is needed.
• Code standards corrections.
• Introduced Template_Handler. Loading of template parts should be done through this class.
• Removed $GLOBALS['dlm_logging'] global.
• Removed $GLOBALS['DLM_Download_Handler'] global.
• Removed internal use of $download_monitor global.

What is new in version 1.5.0:

• JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE for files to fix unicode chars when json encoded. Fix needs PHP 5.4+ to work, but won't break lower versions.
• Style filetype-docx.
• Update get_version_id to work with non-numeric versions.
• Fix shortcode arg booleans.
• Add transient cache for get_file_version_ids.

What is new in version 1.4.0:

• Polish translation.
• Turkish translation.
• Change capability required to view dashboard widget.
• Don't show "insert download" when editing a download.
• Allow pagination for the [downloads] shortcode. Simply add paginate=true to the shortcode.
• Reverted flush change in download handler to reduce memory usage on some hosting environments.

What is new in version 1.3.1:

• Added some new hooks.
• FR and SR_RS updates.

What is new in version 1.2.0:

• Fixed text domains.
• Hungarian translation.
• Fixed dlm_upload folder when not using month/day upload folders.
• Fixed IP lookup.
• Resumable download support.
• Tweaked download handler.

What is new in version 1.1.1:

• Specify error statuses on wp_die messages e.g. 404 for missing files.

What is new in version 1.0.3:

• Fixed config page to work with multibyte tab names.
• Japanese locales.
• Admin CSS/script conditionally loaded.

What is new in version 1.0.2:

• If a filesize cannot be found, set to -1 to prevent re-tries.
• Insert button added to all CPT except downloads.
• French locale.

What is new in version 1.0.0:

• Complete rewrite of the plugin making use of custom post types and other best practices. Fresh start version '1' to prevent auto-updates.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.8 or higher