Downloads Box

Samuel:
It works fine in my theme, as you can see the accented ‘o’ in ‘Downloads’. There must be some problem with your html head enconding. make sure it shows UTF8. You can also try to set the language of your blog to english, since there could be a bug on the core (languages other than english are usually less debugged than english version). MAKE SURE to check wordpress recommendations for language change first! to prevent database corruption.

James:
Make sure you expanded the toolbar with the little icon that looks like a color swatches palette (its tooltip says “show/hide kitchen sink”. If you don’t see two rows of icons above your “Visual View” post editor, you still need to find that button.

Steve: Try uploading the file with a different system. If that message you say is from Wordpres, try FTPing it. If that’s a message from your hosting control panel, try uploading with WordPress.
Compressing the file will most likely fix it.

By the way, there’s no icon image for pgp files. Get one from the web or modify any of the included ones, upload it to “filetype_icons” folder and then add it to the css file. Just duplicate any of the existing definitions and change the class name and background image to the icon you made. You’ll understand the pattern when you see it. Let me know if it’s not that easier.

Alex: I haven’t tried it yet, but try with this:

< ?php
downloads_folder = 'downloads'; //path from your domains root
$downloads_page_based = 0;
$title ='Downloads';
downloads_box_nocredit = 0;
$downloads_box_description = 'Downloads box description";
list_downloads($downloads_folder, $downloads_page_based, $title, $downloads_box_nocredit, $downloads_box_description);
?>


Let me know what happens.

Yes, I’ll include a shortcode version soon. First I need to emulate the css3 behaviors for IE7, at least, with jQuery. For now I released it as an admin tool.

Mareshah:
I’v uploaded the missing folder. Although it was in the trunk, it wasn’t in the latest version folder, which I though was NOT the one the regular download action would take.
Anyway, my bad. There it is complete again.
For all the ones who figured it out using previous folder, congrats!

napster: Not without coding skills.
Of course all the php is in your plugins folder and the css can be modified, but not from the admin panel like a playful theme.

Cristian:
The main purpose of this plugin is to encourage registrations.
Email me if I can develop a specific plugin if you want something different, or if you know how to dive in php code without putting your blog down, just replace both occurrences of is_user_logged_in() by a number 1.

UPDATE: I just updated the plugin. It includes a new feature to waive registrations. You can select them from the widget or the shortcode. Instructions for the shortcode in the read-me file and instructions page.