Linking to Download PDF Button

Your using the plugin for something it wasn’t designed to do, so the only way is to modify it.

you could add a “link” to the shortcode, and then cade the button to check if “link” exists and has a value. If it does use that link instead of the post link. That would be like 5-10 lines of code to modify. But out of the box it doesn’t do that.

also ” I have also posted on the Grid Products developer page” umm where please provide the link, never knew I had a “Grid Products developer page” but would like to see it lol.

in grid-products.php

add to the array on lines 138 to 145

'link' => '',

then replace any reference to

<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">'.$buttontext.'</a>

to

<a href="' . $link . '">'.$buttontext.'</a>

and

<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">View Product</a>

to

<a href="' . $link . '">View Product</a>

MAking the above change would make the button REQUIRE a link to work. If you need it to be more advanced, and have the option of the button linking to the post OR download a file, you will need to take it a step further, and add some isset code to check if link exists and to create the button if it is set or not.

Why don’t you just use custom fields with direct link to the pdf and change the code a bit?
Easy to do in just a few minutes.