#511 by installs
Download Monitor
Powerful Download Manager Plugin for WordPress
- Installs
- 80,000+
- Rating
- 4.5 (525)
- Updated
- 4 days ago
Download Manager
This File Management & Digital Store plugin will help you to control file downloads & sell digital products from your WP site.
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #463 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 11.7M
- 11,653,622
- Downloads, 30 days
- 133.5K
- 41.3K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5
- 1,006 reviews
- Last updated
- 5 days ago
- Oct 26, 2026
- Version
- 3.3.74
- 182 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 26, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.3 or newer |
| Needs PHP | Not stated |
| First published | February 10, 2010 |
| Support, last two months | 4 of 8 threads resolved (50%) |
Reviews
4.1 / 5 from 1,006 reviews
| 5 stars | 736 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 44 |
| 3 stars | 24 |
| 2 stars | 33 |
| 1 star | 169 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
WordPress Download Manager is a Files/Documents Management Plugin designed to manage, track, and control file downloads from your WordPress Site. You can use passwords and user roles to control access to your files, manage download speeds, and limit the number of downloads per user. It also offers features such as Captcha Lock or IP Block to block bots, unwanted users, or spammers. You may even require users to agree to your terms and conditions before downloading.
Need to sell digital products? You may use WordPress Download Manager as a complete e-Commerce Solution for selling digital products. Simply put a price when you need to sell a digital item. You also may use license ( ex: Simple, Extended, Unlimited ) based prices for a product. Users can directly download free items and when an item has a price user will have to go through cart & checkout. WordPress Download Manager has the easiest checkout option to give the user better experience in purchasing an item and which always increase the probability of successful completion of an order.
Features
- Custom post type and taxonomy, adding a download is just like creating a post
- Drag and Drop File Upload
- Chunk upload support to override http max upload limit
- Attach file directly from your server using server file browser
- Media library file protection
- Integrated document viewer ( DOC, PDF and POWERPOINT )
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Latest changelog entry
- Security: Private packages were downloadable by any logged-in user; unpublished packages now require permission to read the package ( Reported by wellknown.info )
- Security: The showLockOptions AJAX action no longer returns download links for packages the user can’t access
- New: Dedicated MCP server at /wp-json/wpdm/mcp lists enabled AI abilities as first-class tools ( needs the MCP Adapter plugin )
- New: MCP resources for the category tree and site download settings, and prompts for publishing a release and writing an activity report
Screenshots
Create new download 
Front-end link template previews 
Tree view 
Responsive datatable
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.