Title: Easy Digital Downloads Featured Downloads Author: Andrew Munro / AffiliateWP Published: April 10, 2013 Last modified: August 18, 2025 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/edd-featured-downloads/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=2902113) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/edd-featured-downloads/assets/icon.svg?rev=2902113) # Easy Digital Downloads Featured Downloads By [Andrew Munro / AffiliateWP](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sumobi/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/edd-featured-downloads.1.0.5.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/edd-featured-downloads/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/edd-featured-downloads/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/edd-featured-downloads/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/edd-featured-downloads/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/edd-featured-downloads/) ## Description #### Featured Downloads is now part of EDD Core As of Easy Digital Downloads 3.5.1, the Featured Downloads addon is included in Easy Digital Downloads. You no longer need this addon to use the Featured Downloads feature. #### About this Addon This plugin requires [Easy Digital Downloads](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/). It’s aimed at developers/clients who need to show a list of featured downloads. 1. Provides a template tag so finely-tuned placement of featured downloads in your theme is possible. 2. Provides a shortcode which will simply list all the featured downloads, without the need to enter any IDs. 3. Provides a simple interface for managing featured downloads in the WordPress admin. A “feature download” checkbox will be added to each download edit/publish screen as well as the quick edit boxes. At a glance you’ll also be able to see which downloads have been featured on your website from the main download listing. #### Shortcode Usage Add the “featured” attribute to the existing [downloads] shortcode provided by Easy Digital Downloads: ``` [downloads featured="yes"] ``` #### Template Tag Usage The following code can be used to show the featured downloads anywhere in your theme: ``` echo do_shortcode( '[downloads featured="yes"]' ); ``` You can include any other attributes supported by the [[downloads] shortcode](https://docs.easydigitaldownloads.com/article/224-downloads). #### Building your own Query To build your own query using [WP_Query](https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query) you can use the `meta_key` parameter with a value of `edd_feature_download`. The following example builds a simple unordered list with all the featured downloads. ``` 'download', 'meta_key' => 'edd_feature_download', ); $featured_downloads = new WP_Query( $args ); if( $featured_downloads->have_posts() ) : ?> ``` ## Screenshots [⌊Feature a download quickly from the publish/edit screen.⌉⌊Feature a download quickly from the publish/edit screen.⌉[ Feature a download quickly from the publish/edit screen. [⌊Feature a download quickly from the quick edit menu.⌉⌊Feature a download quickly from the quick edit menu.⌉[ Feature a download quickly from the quick edit menu. [⌊See which downloads have been featured at a glance.⌉⌊See which downloads have been featured at a glance.⌉[ See which downloads have been featured at a glance. ## Installation 1. Upload entire `edd-featured-downloads` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory, or just upload the ZIP package via ‘Plugins > Add New > Upload’ in your WP Admin 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Feature your downloads and then use either the included template tag or shortcode to show the featured downloads anywhere on your website. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Easy Digital Downloads Featured Downloads” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Andrew Munro / AffiliateWP ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sumobi/) * [ Easy Digital Downloads ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/easydigitaldownloads/) “Easy Digital Downloads Featured Downloads” has been translated into 5 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/edd-featured-downloads/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Easy Digital Downloads Featured Downloads” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/edd-featured-downloads) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/edd-featured-downloads/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/edd-featured-downloads/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/edd-featured-downloads/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/edd-featured-downloads/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.5 * Dev: Compatibility with EDD 3.0. * Tweak: Update plugin author name and URI to Sandhills Development. #### 1.0.4 * Fix: Featured column not showing when the Frontend Submissions extension is active. #### 1.0.3 * New: Added a “featured” attribute to the default [downloads] shortcode in Easy Digital Downloads. Example [downloads featured=”yes”]. * Fix: Fixed a PHP notice that could occur: Undefined index: download_edit_nonce #### 1.0.2 * Fix: Fatal error on some PHP versions #### 1.0.1 * Tweak: Updated plugin information #### 1.0 * Initial release ## Meta * Version **1.0.5** * Last updated **11 months ago** * Active installations **1,000+** * WordPress version ** 5.4 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.2.9** * Languages * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/edd-featured-downloads/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/edd-featured-downloads/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/edd-featured-downloads/), [Polish](https://pl.wordpress.org/plugins/edd-featured-downloads/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/edd-featured-downloads/), and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/edd-featured-downloads/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/edd-featured-downloads) * Tags * [digital downloads](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/digital-downloads/)[e-downloads](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/e-downloads/) [easy digital downloads](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/easy-digital-downloads/) [edd](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/edd/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/edd-featured-downloads/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/edd-featured-downloads/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/edd-featured-downloads/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/edd-featured-downloads/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/edd-featured-downloads/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/edd-featured-downloads/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/edd-featured-downloads/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/edd-featured-downloads/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Andrew Munro / AffiliateWP ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sumobi/) * [ Easy Digital Downloads ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/easydigitaldownloads/) ## Support Got something to say? 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