#463 by installs
Download Manager
This File Management & Digital Store plugin will help you to control file downloads & sell digital products from your WP site.
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.1 (1K)
- Updated
- 5 days ago
Download Monitor
Powerful Download Manager Plugin for WordPress
- Active installs
- 80,000+
- #511 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 7.5M
- 7,483,392
- Downloads, 30 days
- 200.5K
- 41.8K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5
- 525 reviews
- Last updated
- 4 days ago
- Oct 27, 2026
- Version
- 5.3.6
- 211 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 27, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.4 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | March 12, 2008 |
| Support, last two months | 5 of 5 threads resolved (100%) |
Reviews
4.5 / 5 from 525 reviews
| 5 stars | 435 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 31 |
| 3 stars | 9 |
| 2 stars | 9 |
| 1 star | 41 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Powerful Download Manager Plugin for WordPress
Download Monitor is a powerful download manager plugin for handling downloadable files, adding download links to your posts or pages, and tracking downloads.
Download Monitor has been featured on the websites of some of the most popular and leading businesses in the WordPress ecosystem, such as WPBeginner, Pagely, Jilt, WP Fusion & Kinsta.
See how easy it is to list a download on your WordPress site
Download Monitor Extensions available when purchasing a Pro plan
- Buttons: Create beautiful, fully customizable download buttons for your files.
- Downloading Page: Serve your downloads from a separate page.
- Google Drive: Lets you use the files hosted on your Google Drive as Download Monitor files.
- Advanced Access Manager: Create advanced download limitations per download and on a global level.
- Email Notification: Trigger an email notification whenever one of your files is downloaded.
- Document Library Manage: Display files in fast, searchable tables or grids with sorting, filters, and flexible styling. Your documents, easy to find.
- Lock downloads option: Set restrictions to your download functionality using MailChimp Lock, Email Lock, CAPTCHA,
- Gravity Forms Gated Content: easily create a download gate with Gravity Forms. Require users to fill-in a form before accessing a download.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Can I upload .xxx filetype using the uploader?
Download Monitor uses the WordPress uploader for uploading files. By default these formats are supported:
- Images – .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif
- Documents – .pdf, .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .ppsx, .odt, .xls, .xlsx
- Music – .mp3, .m4a, .ogg, .wav
- Video – .mp4, .m4v, .mov, .wmv, .avi, .mpg, .ogv, .3gp, .3g2
Can I link to external downloads?
Yes, you can use both local paths and external URLs.
My Download links 404
Download links are powered by endpoints. If you find them 404’ing, go to Settings > Permalinks and save. This will flush the permalinks and allow our endpoints to be added.
Download counts are not increasing when I download something
Admin hits are not counted, log out and try again!
Latest changelog entry
Improved: The Custom Fields box is now hidden by default when editing a download or a product and can be enabled from Screen Options.
Fixed: Duplicating a download no longer breaks meta saved by other plugins and now also copies version meta.
Screenshots
Easily add downloads to your website with our Gutenberg block! 
The main admin screen lists your downloads using familiar WordPress UI. 
Easily add file information and multiple versions. 
The quick add panel can be opened via a link about the post editor. This lets you quickly add a file and insert it into a post.
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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.