Email Before Download

6.x Release is Here!

After a hiatus from EBD development, a community member has reached out and partnered with us to breathe life back into EBD! We have recently made updates to fix issues and enhance capabilities of EBD. Stay tuned for more to come in EBD v6.x and above!

Email Before Download (EBD) presents your users with a form where they submit information, like their name and email address, prior to receiving a download. This plugin integrates with the popular Contact Form 7 and WordPress Download Monitor plugins, allowing you to create any form you like and manage/monitor your file downloads. You can also EXPORT a list of users that have downloaded files from the plug-in’s settings page. Prior to installing Email Before Download, please confirm each of the dependent plugins is already installed and working independently.

As an option, you can configure Email Before Download to:

Display a link to your file directly under the contact form once it is submitted. This happens dynamically, inline of your post/page.
Send the user an email with a link and/or attachment to download your file.
Both #1 and #2

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Usage

Note: You can see screenshots at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/email-before-download/screenshots/

Create a contact form used by Email Before Download using Contact Form 7 and note the Contact Form ID
Upload a file using Download Monitor and note the Download ID
Navigate to the Post (or Page) you wish to include
Add the following short code using the IDs collected in the first two steps
[email-download download_id=”X” contact_form_id=”Y”]

Plugin Homepage with Live Demos and Test Download: http://www.mandsconsulting.com/products/wp-email-before-download

Please use the Support Forums for any questions and issues. Sometimes other users can help you as well.

Download from https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/email-before-download/
Upload the entire email-before-download folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
Locate the “Email Before Download” menu item in your WordPress Admin panel under “Settings” to configure.

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Can I see a list of download requests people have made?

Yes. We store a log of the form submissions and generated links. You can view and export a CSV file of them from the Email Before Download settings page in your admin screens.

What if I don’t use the Contact Form 7 and/or Download Monitor Plugins?

You will not be able to use this version of Email Before Download without these dependent plugins. If you have specific reasons to avoid using the dependent plugins, please contact us and let us know the reason so we can take it into consideration.

Anything special I need to do with my contact form?

If you decide to configure the Email Before Download option to send the user an email with a link to the download, then you will want to name the email field “your-email” as shown in the example screenshots. Outside of that, nothing special.

What happens after the user completes the form?

By default, the user is presented with a link or links to download their file(s). There is also an option to email the user (with a link to the file and/or attachment) if you choose that route. You can even provide both the inline link as well as the email if you choose.

Are you changing any of my file or directory permissions?

WordPress allows direct access to files in your upload directories using a direct URL and we do not change those permissions. We do provide an option to mask the URL to your downloads if you have cURL enabled.

What are the available shortcode options?

This is the list of all short code attributes that can be used. Some of them override the global admin settings.

download_id – either one single download id from WordPress Download Monitor, or a comma separated list of such ids, eg. ‘1,2,3’
contact_form_id – Contact Form 7 ID. Overrides default contact for id from settings if used.
title – this attribute overrides the title from Download Monitor. if multiple, put them in a comma separated list in the same order as your download_ids.
file – use to point to external url
delivered_as – possible values: “Send Email”, “Both”, “Inline Link”
attachment – “yes”, “no” Attachments only work if files were uploaded with Download Monitor.
force_download – any value that is passed considered as “yes” (we don’t have a global menu item for that) only works with a single download_id.
checked – Loads form with item checked. If you are using checkboxes and have multiple items, the will all be checked, Accepts “no”, any other value is “yes”
hide_form – “yes”, “no”
radio – “yes”, “no”
from_email – valid email address
from_name – any alphanumeric string