Vbulletin Download Manager Plugin Wordpress
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Are you looking for a file download manger for WordPress? While you can simply upload a file and add a download link in your post, it’s not scalable. A WordPress file download manager can help you easily manage, track, and control permissions on file downloads. You can even use it to sell file.
Our installation instructions are slightly different depending on the version of vBulletin you are running. Please select:
vBulletin 5
Installing CometChat as a vBulletin plugin
Step 1
Download the zip package of CometChat Plugin for ‘vBulletin 5 Connect’ to your computer.
Step 2
Unzip the package. You should see two folders (‘cometchat’ and ‘cometchat_plugin’) and one file. (README.md)
Step 3
Upload the entire ‘cometchat’ folder and only this folder to your forum system root directory. For example, if your forum URL is http://www.mysite.com/forum, it should be placed at http://www.mysite.com/forum/cometchat/.
Step 4
Please CHMOD the following files and folders to 777:
/cometchat_plugin
/cometchat_plugin/cpnav_cometchat_panel.xml
/cometchat_plugin/product_cometchat.xml
/cometchat/writable (recursively)
Step 5
Login to Administration Control Panel, go to ‘Products & Hooks’ -> ‘Manage Products’. Click ‘Add/Import Products’ on the page bottom.
Step 6
Upload the product_cometchat.xml file. Click Import.
Step 7
CometChat is now installed on your website!
Step 8
Select the user groups for whom CometChat bar should be visible.
You can use the plugin to allow CometChat usage to specific groups. For example, if you wish to allow access to the user group,
1. Go to ‘Options’ -> ‘CometChat Settings’
2. Here set the ‘CometChat Allowed Groups’. To allow a specific user group, simply enter the user group’s ID
Note: The Users groups id can be found by going to ‘Usergroups’ -> ‘Usergroup Manager’
Step 9
To access CometChat Administration panel in your ‘vBulletin 5 Connect’ AdminCP, upload cpnav_cometchat_panel.xml (provided with the plugin) to “core/includes/xml” and refresh your vBulletin 5 Connect administration panel.
vBulletin3 version 3.8.8 / vBulletin4 version 4.2.2
Installing CometChat as a vBulletin plugin (3.8.8+ and 4.2.2+)
Step 1
Download the zip package of CometChat Plugin for vBulletin to your computer.
Step 2
Unzip the package. You will see two folders (‘cometchat’ and ‘cometchat_plugin’) and one file (README.txt).
Step 3
Upload the entire ‘cometchat’ folder and only this folder to your forum system root directory. For example, if your forum URL is http://www.mysite.com/forum, it should be placed at http://www.mysite.com/forum/cometchat/.
Step 4
Please CHMOD the following files and folders to 777:
/cometchat_plugin
/cometchat_plugin/cpnav_cometchat_panel.xml
/cometchat_plugin/product_cometchat.xml
/cometchat/writable (recursively)
Step 5
Login to Administration Control Panel, go to ‘Plugin & Products’ -> ‘Manage Products’.
Click ‘Add/Import Products’ on the page bottom.
Step 6
Upload the product_cometchat.xml file.Click Import.
Step 7
CometChat is now installed on your website!
User Group permissions.
You can use the plugin to restrict CometChat usage to specific groups.For example, if you wish to prevent access to the user group,
Step 1
Go to ‘Options’ -> ‘CometChat Settings’
Step 2
Here set the ‘CometChat Allowed Groups’. To enable CometChat for a specific user group, simply enter the user group’s ID. To allow all keep it blank.
Note: The Users groups id can be found by going to ‘Usergroups’ -> ‘Usergroup Manager’
Chat With Me Button.
This plugin can add a ‘Chat With Me’ Button in the user profile in Forum Threads.This button can be used to initiate a chat with the user.
Wordpress Download Manager Tutorial
To set the text for this button,
Step 1
Go to ‘Options’ -> ‘CometChat Settings’
Step 2
Here set the ‘Chat With Me button text’ field and click save.
Note: To remove this button simply set the field empty and click save.
Administration Panel.
To access CometChat Administration panel in your vBulletin AdminCP, upload cpnav_cometchat_panel.xml (provided with the plugin) to “vbulletin3/includes/xml” and refresh your vBulletin administration panel.
Troubleshooting
If CometChat bar does not appear on your site or does not work, you may need to configure the Base URL.
To do this go to ‘vBulletin Options’ > ‘CometChat Settings’
Here add the URL of your vBulletin folder
e.g. if vBulletin is present at http://www.yoursite.com/vbulletin, then set /vbulletin as base URL.
Note: Do not add a trailing “/”
vBulletin3 / vBulletin4 lower versions
Introduction
This guide will help you through the installation process and get CometChat running on your site.
Installation is very straight forward, only taking about 5 minutes from uploading the files to viewing the CometChat bar on your site.
Before you begin, you will need an FTP client, if you do not have one, some popular solutions include FileZilla (free) or CuteFTP (trial).
You do not need programming knowledge to install CometChat, but a working knowledge of FTP functions is a plus.
This guide assumes that you have successfully downloaded the latest release of CometChat and have the zip file “unzipped” and ready to go. If not, you can download the package from the Members Area.
The instructions will term the zip file you downloaded as cometchat.zip.
Uploading
At this point, you should have the zip archive cometchat.zip and find a single folder- “cometchat”.
If you don’t know already, find out the folder in which vBulletin is installed.
If you access your vBulletin site via ‘http://www.domain.com’, then look for the webroot directory.
The “webroot” directory is usually ‘public_html’ or ‘www’, but this varies from server to server so if you’re unsure, contact your hosting provider.
Using your FTP client, copy the ‘/cometchat’ folder inside your vBulletin folder. e.g. http://www.domain.com/cometchat
Point your browser to http://www.cometchat.com/extra/ccpic.zip and extract this archive to your forums folder (NOT the CometChat folder)
Installation
Step 1
You should now run the installer file through your web browser by entering the URL to it into your browser address bar (if you have followed our example, type in http://www.domain.com/cometchat/install.php, naturally substituting ‘domain.com’ for your web address).
If the installation was completed successfully, then two lines of HTML code will be displayed on your screen. Please copy these two lines. Also, the page may display a list of files and folders which may require additional permissions. Please CHMOD those files/folders to 777.
Step 2
Now edit your template header.
Login to your vBulletin Admin Control Panel (usually http://www.domain.com/forums/admincp)
Under the Styles & Templates tab, select the Style Manager option.
Now select the style in which you want to add the bar, and click on the Go button.
In the header textbox, add the copied code at the beginning.
Now delete install.php file from the ‘/cometchat’ folder.
That’s all! Now log-in to your site and you will be able to see the CometChat bar. For customizing the text, icons, plugins, theme and modules, please refer to the documentation for Administration Panel.
Description
WordPress Download Manager is a Files / Documents Management Plugin to manage, track and control file downloads from your WordPress Site. Use Passwords, User Roles to control access to your files, control downloads by speed or by putting a limit on download count per user, block bots or unwanted users or spammers using Captcha Lock or IP Block feature, you may also ask users to agree with your terms and conditions before they download.
Also, you may use WordPress Download Manager as a complete e-Commerce Solution for selling digital products. Simply put a price when you need to sell a digital item. You also may use license ( ex: Simple, Extended, Unlimited ) based prices for a product. Users can directly download free items and when an item has a price user will have to go through cart & checkout. WordPress Download Manager has the easiest checkout option to give the user better experience in purchasing an item and which always increase the probability of successful completion of an order.
Features
- Custom post type and taxonomy, adding a download is just like creating a post
- Drag and Drop File Upload
- Chunk upload support to override http max upload limit
- Attach file directly from your server using server file browser
- Quick add panel with tinymce editor button to create and insert a download easily when you are editing a post or page
- Google Drive support to store your files in Google drive ( 15 GB of space for free)
- DropBox support to store your files in DropBox ( 2 GB of space for free )
- Box.com support to store your files in Box.com ( 10 GB of space for free )
- OneDrive support to store your files in onedrive.live.com ( 15 GB of space for free )
- Option to “Open in Browser” or “Download” files ( PDFs or images )
- Control who can access to download
- Category level access control
- Download speed control
- Password protection
- CAPTCHA protection
- IP block option to prevent bot downloads or downloads from unwanted IP addresses
- Download logs to check who is downloading which file from where and when
- Terms protection – Agree with Terms & Conditions before download
- Download counter to see total download count for each file
- Custom download link icon
- File type icon support
- Full Featured User Dashboard ( use short-code [wpdm_user_dashboard] )
- Custom front-end login / signup form short-code
- Custom oEmbed template
- Responsive DataTable support ( use short-code [wpdm_all_packages jstable=1 items_per_page=20] )
- Searching and Sorting Option
- Custom link label
- Short-code for download link
- Short-code for direct link to downloadable file [wpdm_direct_link id=file_id_required link_label=any_text_optional]
- Widget for new files
- Widget for top downloads
- Widget for searching downloads
- Multi-level Categories
- Custom TinyMce Button
- Category embed short-code
- Advanced server file browser
- Complete category and file tree using a simple short-code [wpdm_tree]
- MP4 video upload and play support
- Video file download protection, allow visitors to play but block download
- Translation Ready
Digital Asset Manager
- Server file manager
- Create new file and folder easily
- Move, copy, edit files
- Integrated file editor with syntax highlights
- Asset shortcode to embed a file/asset easily in a page or post
- Upload, Download and Delete operations
- Video and audio preview/play
Digital Asset Manager ( Pro Features )
- File tagging
- Sharable link generator
- Bookmarking, Comments and discussions
- Front-end asset management
- Custom asset meta data
- Asset archive and version management
Complete Digital Store Solution:
Use Premium Package – Complete Digital Store Solution Add-on (free) if you need to sell your digital items. The add-on has all features you will ever need to build a perfect online shop for your digital downloads:
- Single Click Activation ( Auto-install & Activate )
- Sell Digital Products Securely
- Easy Administration
- PayPal Integrated
- User-role Based Discount Management
- Coupon Management
- Sales Tax
- Save Cart and Checkout Later
- Email Saved Cart
- Product & Price Variations ( License Based Pricing / Sell Extra Gigs with Product )
- Promotional Pricing for Your Digital Products
- “Pay As You Want” pricing
- Invoice Generation
- Easiest Checkout System
- Guest Checkout and Guest Download
- Order expiration option ( Like 1 year support & update access, then expire )
- Auto-renew order option ( Accept Recurring Payment for Orders )
- Easy Order Management
- Sales Notifications via Email
- Sales Notification Directly in Your Mobile with Push Message
- Very Detailed Sales Reports
- Order Notes & Messaging System
- Extended Product Licensing System
- License Level Pricing
- Easy to implement license API for license system integration
- Full-featured Digital Products Marketplace with Front-end product submission & payout management ( This Feature Requires WPDM v4+ )
- Sell individual files ( like single song from an album ) ( This Feature Requires WPDM v4+ )
- and much more…
Google Drive
Use Google Drive Explorer add-on ( free ) to store your files in google drive and link with download manager, get 15 GB free storage space and save your server bandwidth
OneDrive
Use OneDrive Explorer add-on ( free ) to store your files in Microsoft OneDrive and link with download manager, get 15 GB free storage space and save your server bandwidth
DropBox
Use DropBox Explorer add-on ( free ) to store your files in dropbox and link with download manager, get 2 GB free storage space and save your server bandwidth
Box.com
Use Box.com Explorer add-on ( free ) to store your files in Box.com and link with download manager, get 10 GB free storage space and save your server bandwidth
Add-ons
Download Plugin For Wordpress
Download and Install following free add-on to add additional features as per your need
- Gutenberg Blocks for gutenberg editor
- Advanced Tiny-Mce Button for editor button to generate short-codes
- Extended Short-codes for tree view ( [wpdm_tree] ), slider ( [wpdm_slider] ) & carousel ( [wpdm_carousel] )
- WPDM Image Button to replace download link label with a custom designed image
- WPDM Button Templates for pre-designed colorful button styles
Mobile Apps
Check download stats and get a push notification when someone downloads, install:
- WPDM API – install this add-on on your site and configure API key
- WPDM for Abdroid – Install the app on your android phone
- WPDM for iOS – Check download and sales stats directly from your iPhone or iPad
Free Themes
More Themes & Add-ons
- Add-ons – 100+ add-ons
- Themes – Themes Specially Optimized for Download Manager
Installation
- Upload
download-managerto the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress