Easy Media Download is a WordPress plugin which allows you to offer free digital downloads to your website visitors. You can easily create download buttons for different types of media files.
Easy Media Download Plugin Installation
- Login to your WordPress admin dashboard
- Go to Plugins->Add New
- Enter Easy Media Download in the search box
- Once you find the plugin hit the install button
Option 2
- the zip version of the plugin
- Go to Plugins->Add New and switch to the Upload tab
- Select the zip file on your computer
- Upload and install it
Option 3
- Download the zip file and extract it
- Connect to your website via FTP (you can use a software like Filezilla to transfer files to your server) and browse to the “/wp-content/plugins” folder
- Select the folder containing the plugin files on your computer and upload it
- Once all the files have been uploaded to your web server you can activate the plugin from the Plugins menu (WordPress admin dashboard)
Features
- Easy to use plugin.
- Offer free downloads from your website by creating download buttons.
- Allow any type of digital downloads such as music download, video download, e-book download.
- Allow free pdf download, movie download, song or mp3 download.
- Manage and host your downloadable files either remotely or on your server
- Upload downloads via WordPress media uploader (you don’t need a file manager plugin for that)
- Track free downloads or download clicks by integrating with your Google Analytics account
- Host your digital downloads anywhere on the web where it’s publicly accesible (e.g. Dropbox download, Google Drive download)
- Create beautiful download buttons dynamically with shortcodes
- Create colorful download buttons with various colors and styles
- Force the browser to show download prompt when a download button is clicked
- No additional setup or complicated configuration – Simply install, activate and create download buttons.
Easy Media Download Plugin Usage
Create a new WordPress post/page and embed the following shortcode:
[easy_media_download url="
You need to replace the value of the url parameter with your digital download URL.
There are some additional shortcode parameters that you can use to customize the download button:
Download Button Text
By default the text for the download button is Download Now. But you can specify a different text for your button using the text parameter.
[easy_media_download url="text="Free Download"]
Download Button Templates
Easy Media Download allows you to customize download buttons in 21 different styles. The default style is red_darker which can specified in the color parameter of the shortcode.
[easy_media_download url="text="Free Download" color="red_darker"]
Other available styles:
- grey
- grey_light
- red
- green_dark
- green_light
- green
- blue
- blue_two
- blue_three
- blue_four
- orange
- orange_two
- orange_light
- orange_dark
- purple
- purple_dark
- purple_light
- yellow_red
- hot_pink
- pink
Download Button Image
If you are looking for full button customization you can do so by specifying your own button image. For example:
[easy_media_download url="text="
Download Button Width
The default width for the download button is “153”. To specify a different width you can use the width parameter.
[easy_media_download url="text="Free Download" width="100"]
Download Button Height
By default the height for the download button is “41”. To specify a different height you can use the height parameter.
[easy_media_download url="text="Free Download" width="100" height="50"]
Download Window
By default the download starts in the same window. To open the download in a new window you can specify the target parameter.
[easy_media_download url="text="Free Download" target="_blank"]
Here is a screenshot of the free download button:
Force a File Download
Usually the browser opens the file in the same window for known media types. If you want to force it to prompt for download you can do so by specifying the force_dl parameter.
[easy_media_download url="text="Free Download" force_dl="1"]
Please note that this parameter doesn’t work in Safari.
Digital Download Analytics
