We’re looking for a plugin which lets a user upload files in the admin UI, categorise them and then output a nice categorised list on a page with a sidebar widget to show new downloads.
We’ve spent a fair while googling and not come up with much. This one says it should do what we want, but doesn’t.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/downloads-manager/
Any suggestions?
2 Answers
I’ve used a plug-in called Publications Archive to do much of that. The only thing it won’t do is output a sidebar widget to show new downloads, but otherwise you can upload via the admin UI, categorize uploads, and create a nice, structured and styled list on a page.
Make sure you read the issues page to track down and fix any bugs. The plug-in hasn’t been officially supported for some time, so there might be a few tweaks here and there that you’ll need to do to get it to work. Eventually I’ll get around to re-writing the system to use custom post types … but that’s several months in the future.
You can see an example of the page output here. Like I said, you can have a structured, stylized list of the documents, files, etc that you’ve uploaded.
