Loading...WordPress these days is used to created almost any kind of website. And the best thing about WordPress is that, you absolutely don’t need to be a programmer to create a cool looking and functional website. There are thousands of plugins available in the WordPress plugin directory that allow you to do a myriad of things with just a few mouse clicks.
If you are an internet marketer and are looking for ways to build lists via your website, you generally place an optin form that allows users to enter their email addresses to get updated on your latest stuff. But there should be something that would entice them to enter their details, maybe an ebook download or something? If you are looking for an easy way to let users download ebooks in return for their email address in WordPress, there’s a plugin for it.
SS Downloads is a plugin for WordPress that can be configured in a way so as to allow users to download stuff from your website after they enter their email address or name and email address both. Install the plugin from the WordPress plugin directory.
Once you install the SS downloads plugin, head over to its settings page. The settings for SS downloads can be found under Tools>SS Downloads. You can setup things like what is required for downloading(name or email address or both), file delivery method which includes either sending link to the file by email, sending file as email attachment or sending link to the file by email. The best thing about this plugin is that you can also change the shortcode from the default shortcode “download” to something else. This is to ensure that you don’t encounter any conflicts with other WordPress plugins. So, say for example your file readme.txt is in the wp-content/uploads/ folder. You will need to enter the following to have the download link for the file.
[download file=”readme.txt” title=”title”]
This shortcode can be entered into any post or page, or anywhere inside the wordpress built in editor. Or if you want to have the code inserted in a theme file, you can do so by using the following code.
<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[download file=”readme.txt” title=”title”]’) ?>
This is a very handy plugin and would serve the purpose when you want to offer your users with an option to download files off your server after they enter their email addresses. If you want to have it in a popup, you can use a popup pluign like wp popup and insert the shortcode into the built in editor offered.