How to add download counter

Sorry for that inconvenience.

I didn′t make it different on the filedownload site:
https://filedownload.blog-me.de/
you will see on the right side the download link and the counter directly under it.

What exactly does not run on page. There is no automatic refresh of the page after download – so the counter is only shown as increased after reloadig the page.
So does the counter show the increased number afte refreshing the page?

Another hint:
don′t use “type=”application/xml” for an pdf file. Use this optional filetype only for unknown types or use type=”application/pdf” – but this has nothing to do with your problem….

thanks for the serious question
Peter

when you read my last answer, you see that I cannot reproduce this behaviour and asked a question which was not responded.
So I repeat my question:
What exactly does not run on page. There is no automatic refresh of the page after download – so the counter is only shown as increased after reloadig the page.
So does the counter show the increased number afte refreshing the page?

If I don′t get more information, I will not be able to help you.

Peter

hi peter i added the short code in the side bar
but the counter is not working. i tried to download the file and the refreshed the page several times but the counter was still showing 0
i even installed shortcode for sidebar plugin

I had the same issue and solved it changing line 82 of filedownload.php

from

$filename = WP_CONTENT_URL . '/'.$file;

to

$filename = $file;

I don’t know if this breaks any other functionality or something, but at least the counter works now. Maybe this part of the code needs some detection as to whether an absolute or a relative link is given. I used an absolute link and the counter didn’t work on the frontend, but did work on the backend (what Op described).

Hello Mr. Kreuzheber,

thanks for the constructive comment. Now I understand for the first time, what was going wrong. I always tested with a relative path and did not find the problem.
The best solution would be to change the line

$filename = WP_CONTENT_URL . ‘/’.$file;

to

if (substr($file, 0,7) == “https://”) $filename = $file;
elseif (substr($file, 0,1) == “/”) $filename = WP_CONTENT_URL . $file;
else $filename = WP_CONTENT_URL . ‘/’ . $file;

because exactly with this construction the path is written to the database.
This is not tested, but I will try it and update the plugin if it is running.

Thank you,
Peter Gross