Easy Media Download

Description

easy Media Download is a free download director for WordPress. It gives your users the ability to download digital media files from your web site. The plugin is lightweight and makes downloading easier. You can create beautiful download button which immediately starts the download once clicked .

Features

• Create quick downloads
• Free downloads for music or audio files e.g. mp3, aac, m4a, wav
• Insert download buttons into your landing page
• Free downloads for video files e.g. mp4, mov, qt (QuickTime), mpg, mpeg, flv, m4v, swf, flash, avi, wma, ogg, webm
• Allow users to directly download in all file formats
• Free downloads for document file e.g. doc, docx (OpenOffice, Microsoft Word), odt (OpenDocument), htm, html, ps, tex, xml, txt, csv
• Allow large file download (No limit on the file size)
• Free downloads for Office file e.g. xlsx (Microsoft Excel), pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint)
• Free downloads for script e.g. js, css, php
• Track/Monitor your downloads
• Free downloads for archive or compressed file e.g. tar, rar, zip, 7z, gz, z
• Force the browser to open the download prompt
• Free downloads for image file e.g. png, gif, jpg, jpeg, bmp
• Open the download in a new tab
• Free downloads for e-book e.g. pdf, epub

For more information please check the Easy Media Download documentation page

Embedding Shortcodes for the Downloads

Create a newly post/page and use the following shortcode to create a download button for your digital media file :

[easy_media_download url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip"]

here, url is a shortcode parameter that you need to replace with the actual URL to your digital file
You can besides specify extra optional parameters in the shortcode to customize the free download button .
Button Text
By default the text for the download push button is “ Download immediately ”. But you can choose to modify the text using the “ text ” parameter .

[easy_media_download url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip" text="Free Download"]

Button Width
By default option the width for the download button is “ 153 ”. But you can choose to modify it using the “ width ” parameter .

[easy_media_download url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip" text="Free Download" width="100"]

Button Height
By default the altitude for the download button is “ 41 ”. But you can choose to modify it using the “ height ” parameter .

[easy_media_download url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip" text="Free Download" width="100" height="50"]

Download in a new window
By default option the download starts in the lapp window. But you can choose to modify it using the “ target ” argument .

[easy_media_download url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip" target="_blank"]  (opens the download in a new window)
Force File Download

normally when a digital file is recognised by the browser it does not prompt for download. The charge good opens in the browser alternatively. You can choose to modify this behavior using the force_dl argument in the shortcode .

[easy_media_download url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.mp3" force_dl="1"]
Download Button Templates

easy Media Download comes with 21 unlike download button templates. All you need to do is specify the style and the button will look equitable like it. For exercise :

[easy_media_download url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip" color="red_darker"]

• grey
• grey_light
• red
• green_dark
• green_light
• green
• blue
• blue_two
• blue_three
• blue_four
• orange
• orange_two
• orange_light
• orange_dark
• purple
• purple_dark
• purple_light
• yellow_red
• hot_pink
• pink

If you want to in full customize the download button you can use your own button image alternatively .

Link Rel

You can use the HTML link rel assign in the shortcode to define the kinship between your foliate and the linked download.

[easy_media_download url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip" rel="nofollow"]
Custom CSS Class

In addition to respective button templates, If you want to apply custom styling to a button you can do so by using the class parameter .

[easy_media_download url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip" class="myclass"]

You can specify multiple CSS classes in the shortcode .
[ easy_media_download url= ” hypertext transfer protocol : //example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip ” class= ” myclass1 myclass2 myclass3″ ]

Easy Media Download Shortcode 2

With this shortcode, you can create a download button with your prefer semblance .

[easy_media_download2 url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip" text="Free Download" bg_color="#CC0000"]

Background Color
The background color of the download release is “ # 3498db ” by default option. You can customize it using the “ bg_color ” argument .

[easy_media_download2 url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip" bg_color="#CC0000"]

Font Color
The baptismal font tinge of the download push button is “ # ffffff ” by default. You can customize it using the “ font_color ” parameter .

[easy_media_download2 url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip" text="Free Download" font_color="#71B02F"]

Hover Background Color
The “ hover_bg_color ” parameter can be used to change the background color of the download button when you mouse over it .
[ easy_media_download2 url= ” hypertext transfer protocol : //example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip ” text= ” Free Download ” bg_color= ” # 3498db ” hover_bg_color= ” # 3cb0fd ” ]

Digital Download Tracking

easy Media Download is integrated with the Google Analytics plugin. It allows you to see how many times a particular file has been downloaded in real time from your Google Analytics history .

Languages

easy Media Download can be translated into your languages. Currently it supports the take after languages :

• French
• Spanish
• German
• Italian
• Dutch
• Turkish

If you are a non-English speaker please help translate easy Media Download into your terminology .
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Recommended Reading

• Easy Media Download Documentation
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