The Best-Of Series: Download Managers

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1. Jeremy (1 comments.) says:

   11/6/2009 at 10:56 am

   Do you know if any/all of these will work with PodPress or the Podcasting plugin? I tried one a while back (I don’t remember which), and by using the trackable url for the media file, it broke the PodPress function, so I was unable to use it.

   Thanks!
   • James Dimick (23 comments.) says:

     11/6/2009 at 10:07 pm

     I can’t say from personal experience but you could always give these download managers a try. May have changed since since you last tried.
2. Rajesh Kanuri (3 comments.) says:

   11/6/2009 at 11:01 am

   nice collection..
3. Lester Chan (32 comments.) says:

   11/6/2009 at 11:34 am

   Thanks for featuring my WP-DownloadManager, I will be testing against WP2.9 when the beta is out =)
   • James Dimick (23 comments.) says:

     11/6/2009 at 10:14 pm

     It’s a great plugin. Thanks for creating it!
4. Kenji (7 comments.) says:

   11/6/2009 at 1:16 pm

   Where can we see Drain Hole in action?
   • James Dimick (23 comments.) says:

     11/6/2009 at 10:13 pm

     Well, I’m not aware of any official places to demo the plugin but, you can get an idea of how the front-end looks if you look at my use of it here and here. As I mentioned in the post, I currently use Drain Hole on my site. Not sure if that helps but I’m not aware of any way to demo the plugin without installing it.
5. Flick (28 comments.) says:

   11/7/2009 at 4:00 pm

   I’ve used WordPress Download Monitor for 2-3 sites and can really recommend it. It was a big surprise when I found out that the newest version supports members-only downloads. Previous I’d have had to hide the URL so a big bonus imho.
6. bubazoo (213 comments.) says:

   11/10/2009 at 1:27 am

   how about, for the next “best of” series, you could do one on RSS feeds.
   I’m talking about fetch and show RSS feeds in blog posts or pages.

   The only one I know of is Khanh’s Quick Feeds, but its got its share of problems, so it would be nice to see a good list.
7. David (1 comments.) says:

   6/29/2012 at 2:29 pm

   We spent $210 for the developer version of this plugin. From the start we had issues with getting it to work correctly. Namely it was not properly saving settings in the admin, it was sporadic when rendering packages on the front end, and we were repeatedly getting a “link expired” error after using a download link despite not setting it to do so. We attempted several “fixes” provided by the author’s support team, including the immediate updating of the plugin during all this due to a bug we discovered.
   After 3-days of trying to get the plugin to work we decided to go with another solution, and requested a refund. After a considerable amount of back and forth emails from the company that developed this plugin, we were told the only way they would issue a refund is if we provided them access to our admin control panel to see if they could determine what the issues were. This was completely unreasonable to us as it is a well know fact you NEVER give your WordPress login details to a third party.
   I would highly recommend only using the free version of this plugin, and do NOT pay for the Dev or Premium versions of this plugin. If you have compatibiality issues, and do not wish to allow them access to your admin, they will REFUSE to give you a deserved refund.
   • Wolf (1 comments.) says:

     3/17/2013 at 4:02 pm

     Hi David,

     I think you are talking about wordpress download manager.

     In that case I totally agree with you. I haven’t purchased the “PRO” version: the free one was enought to make me dumb!

     Do you want to know what I think about? It is the bigger fake I’ve ever seen! Over 250k downloads of free version and thousands installations of “PRO” version do not get along with bugs that should have been fixed since the first update!

     I worked on the source code of free version fixing some ridiculous bugs but after 24 hours I said stop! It is like opening a huge can of Worms!

     You can search on the Internet what people say about their customer service.

     There is an honest review (written in italian) about WordPress Download Manager Plugin here: http://www.takemc.com/2013/03/.....in-review/