WP-Filebase – File Download Manager for WordPress September 16th, 2009
WP-Filebase is a powerful download manager supporting file categories, thumbnails and more.
Uploaded files can be associated with a post or page so the download URL, thumbnail and other file information are appended automatically to the content.
Additionally there are options to limit traffic and download speed.
Some more features:
- Arrange files in categories and sub-categories
- Automatically creates thumbnails of images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP)
- Powerful template engine (variables, IF-Blocks)
- Associate files to posts and automatically attach them to the content
- Customisable file list widget
- Hotlinking protection
- Daily and monthly traffic limits
- Download speed limiter for registered users and anonymous
- Range download (allows user to pause downloads and continue them later)
- Works with permalink structure
- Download counter which ignores multiple downloads from the same client
- Many file properties like author, version, supported languages, platforms, license …
WordPress Plugin Directory Entry
Example of three auto-attached files:
WP-Filebase Widget:
Hi there Fabi,
Thanks for the great plugin!
I have it installed on my mamp and it workds fine. I then installed it on my live wordpress site. It works fine except that there is NO BUTTON IN MY MCE.
Can you please tell me if you know of a solution? I have tried to deactivate and then reactivate various plugins.
Many thanks,
Kumar
Heya Fabi,
Thanks for making such an awesome plugin. I mean it looks pretty awesome from the examples but I can’t get it working with my site yet.
I keep getting the following error:
The upload directory /filebase does not exists. It could not be created automatically because the directory / is not writable. Please create /filebase and make it writable for the webserver by executing the following FTP command: CHMOD 777 /filebase
I did manually created a /filebase/ on the root of my site public_html/filebase, did not work with the chmod 777, then i created the directory under /public_html/wp-content/uploads/filebase thinking that would fix it but still getting the same error. Where exactly does this directory need to be created?
Thanks in advance for the reply and plugin!
@Al: don’t use leading slashes, just reset your WP-Filebase options, setting the upload dir to “wp-content/uploads/filebase”.
@everyone else: i dont have much time for developing WP-Filebase, please have patience. I’ll continue making this plugin better in the new year.
Love this plugin! Question though… I’d like a user to be redirected to a registration form instead of just seeing “You are not allowed to access this file!” Is this possible? I took a quick look at modifying the plugin to do this but couldn’t figure it out. Second choice would be to modify this error message to include a link to the registration page.
I wonder if having directory permissions as “777″ is required. Most of the other WP files use something like “644″ for files and “775″ for directories. I have tried changing the filebase uploads directory to 775 and when I synch filebase DB it changes it back to “777″. Also tried to do this for files uploaded and the same thing happens.
Not sure what the security risk might be for 777 file permissions, but as I understand it, any user executing code on the hosting machine could modify or delete the files/directories…
Although, I am currently not listing any filebase files for download. My plans are to start using it extensively in a few weeks on my website…
Ray
Oh and by the way great product, thanks for your hard work.
Ray
great plugin, just one problem:
when I want to use a thumbnail for a file the thumbnail is added to the category and listed in the file view again, and not just in the download I want the thumbnail to appear.
Believe or not, disable permanent link option also will happen download have no right for registered user..
I’ve been headache awhile but this problem is happen sometimes some user or some files.
problem such as:
1. user login can download some files but some files have no right only registered but he is registered and login.
2. user login cannot download with no registered user right, happen to my friend. i try on other pc with his login and id. i can download. try on his pc again i can’t download. i directly change permanent link to be ON. and i try on his pc again. He can download again.
3. Happen to net user(registered and login), he can’t download with permanent link option ON, i turn OFF, he directly can download.
I just give example what is really happening in my site. and i have no clue what the problem is but i confirm it was not problem with permanant link ON or OFF.
I can also confirm this happening have nothing to do with new account because my friend is downloading and using my site for awhile already.
Sorry for headache.
Hi, thanks for this great plugin, i would like to know is it possible to show a list of the category in the widget like a menu when we click on it go to the category ?
PS: maybe you can make a forum support for your plugins this will be great.
Hi Fabi!
I found what page doesn’t pass W3C validation if there is attachment which use wp-filebase default template. Fabi can you fix it? I I could only fix simple file template.
Thanks
does anyone else have a problem with the wp-filebase Widget?
whenever I save it, it clears everything.
Ich versuch gerade mal die Trailer in eine anständige Reihenfolge zu bringen. Dafür habe ich jetzt mal das Release-Date als Datum eingesetzt. Das Ganze hat nur einen winzigen Haken, wenn ich irgendwas im Nachhinein dann an der Datei änder (weil ich z.B. eine Beschreibung ändern will oder ähnliches), springt daß Datum auf das ursprüngliche Datum zurück (ist überall wohl der 24. November 2009) und alles ist wieder durcheinander. Da stimmt wohl irgendwas noch nicht.
Aber nun erstmal: schöne Rest-Feiertage (hoffentlich) und einen guten Rutsch!!!
lg, Martina.
Hi,
Thanks for your very good job.
Happy Christmas from the south of France
Just a question.
I have some subcategories with many files.
Is it possible to attach a category instead of a list of file to one post ? Because the list is too big.
Thanks for answering and happy new year.
Is there any way to include Files’s description in search results of wordpress?
Hello. I tried installing this plugin on a new installation of wordpress and I only get a blank screen in the tools->wp-filebase page. I tried it first on wordpress 2.9 then deleted and did a fresh install of 2.8.6 and get the same error.
Thanks.
Hi, i’v tried to install this plugin on a fresh 2.9.0 wordpress. When i try to get into tools section of this plugin (to add downloads), i’m getting an error, that page cannot be loaded.
Hi,
At first I would like to thank you a lot for great plugin it completely perfect for my needs. Any way I want to ask you about a tiny request. Is there any ability for making wp-filebase multi-language enabled?
Currently I’m working on using it in my blog which is in Arabic, so I’ll send you soon a new CSS file works for RTL direction languages
Hi Fibi,
tolles Plugin, aber kann es sein, dass es Probleme mit “(” und “)” Zeichen im Dateinamen der Downloads gibt? Der Link scheint zwar immer korrekt bei mir, allerdings startet der Download bei Dateien mit Klammern im Namen nicht, die URL oben im Browser stimmt dann zwar immer, allerdings fehlen die Klammern und demnach findet er den Download nicht.
Was kann man da machen? Oder woran kann das liegen?
Wordpress 2.9
WP-Filebase 0.1.2.4
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Great plugin, this is exactly what I needed!
I have donated something to support your work. Looking forward to new updates with new features.
First many thanks Great Plugin.
I upgraded to wp_filebase0.1.2.4 and am using wp vers 2.8.4
Now I can not sync files I have uploaded.
When I press sync it sends me to a go back button and there are no new files found.
.
Thanks Again,
Trey
fafo, thank you for your dontation, really appreciating it. You are the first one btw
I am working on a big update of WP-Filebase. I want to fix all issues with blank pages and missing the editor button, but since a dont have a test system where this trouble happens, I need someone who provides their wordpress site for debugging. Ideally it should not be live site. Anyone who want to supply his site, please write an e-mail to me (see http://fabi.me/en/impressum/ ). Thank you!
http://beerpla.net/2010/01/13/wordpress-plugin-development-how-to-include-css-and-javascript-conditionally-and-only-when-needed-by-the-posts/
I love the plugin, but it seems that it loads CSS and JS into wp_head() on every page even if I am not using WP-Filebase on that page. I was wondering if you could do something like what is mentioned in the link above? I’ve also seen another plugin offer a setting to specify ‘include’ or ‘exclude’ page IDs as another option in Settings.
Thanks again for your efforts!
BTW, if you still need a site to debug the new version on, I have one that you can use. Just email me.
-Nathan
nathan(at)finkfamily.org
Thanks for this plugin. A local installation provides me w/ a btn in MCE, but a remote installation does not. What gives?
Just updated to new version. RSS feeds now have links to files! Great work!
New Version 0.1.3.0:
* Added option Parse template tags in RSS feeds
* New Widget: Category list
* Settings are organized in tabs now
* Conditional loading of WP-Filebase’s JS
* Automatic login redirect
* Validated template output (Note: line breaks are not converted to HTML anymore, so please add
<br />’s or reset your settings to load the default template)
* Added localization support
* German translation
* Editor Button code changes
* Changed default file permissions from 777 to 666
* Fixed file date bug causing a reset of the date
@Nowton: please try it with the 0.1.3.0 and report if it’s working.