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I think the dropbox or the s3 options are both valid options for what you explained. Lets try the dropbox one first. I have sent you a copy of the dropbox addon so you can test it out with one of your download items.
Regarding the forcing a file to download question, the following maybe useful:
okay so lets go step by step. The first thing is to clarify that the hidden downloads addon works exactly as we say on the following page (If you upload a file to your site and then use the addon to handle the download, it will do the job):
As I understand it from your previous reply, you want a vimeo hosted video to download. Now, that is not a file on your server so the hidden download addon can’t do anything about it. You are referring to a streaming video URL. Vimeo or YouTube doesn’t let you do that. They want you to embed the video on a webpage. A visitor to your site is not allowed to legally download a file from Vimeo.
So my question to you is, are we still talking about a vimeo video URL download or are we talking about a file that you own and that you will upload to your own site or amazon S3 or dropbox account?
I don’t mind checking the back-end of the site and taking a look but I won’t be able to do that on a customized version. I will need to get a standard copy of our plugin on your site then check things.
If you temporarily remove any customization, and use the standard copy of the plugin do you see the issue?
The Dropbox addon works on its own (the hidden downloads is not required for dropbox integration). It uses the API to retrieve a file from your Dropbox account and then serve that file to the user.
Vimeo doesn’t allow you to do hidden downloads (similar to YouTube). That’s their business model. You need to host the file on your site if you want to really hide it from other people discovering it.
Most people use Amazon s3 or dropbox to host their video files (if they are going to offer private videos) that needs to be protected. The download monitor has an integration with S3 also.
Yes, you can use Absolute path of the download when using the hidden downloads addon. That will work fine too.
Looks like you were using a relative URL value in the download URL field (that is not correct). You need to use the FULL URL of the download item in our plugin’s configuration.
Just to confirm, is the file uploaded to your website or are you using a file from an external server/site?
I am not sure about this. Does the theme (Divi) support standard WordPress shortcode in the area where you are trying to use the shortcode?
Our plugin’s shortcode uses a standard shortcode implementation (it doesn’t do anything special).
English language file will need to be created by you based on your localization.
You can only translate the “download now” text and then generate the translation file and use it.
Below are the various options to customize the “Download Now” button text of a download:
1) You can edit the download item in question and specify a custom button text in the following field:
Download Button Text2) Use the button_text=”My Custom Button Text” parameter in the download shortcode. You can see an example of it in the following documentation:
3) You can edit the language file of the plugin and update the “Download Now” text there to say something else. So in your WP install, it will use that text via the language file.
Not at the moment. When you say unregistered users, do you mean users who are logged into the site as a WP User?
Yes, it uses WordPress’s Custom Post Type.
You can see the custom post type it is registering in the following file of the plugin:
sdm-post-type-and-taxonomy.php
Normally if something is easy to do, I will give my answer. In this case, I don’t know where to start to be honest. I would have to site down and spend a few hours to figure out a specific solution for this.
