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Force Discount for EDD

Description

This is an addon of “Easy Digital Downloads” plugin.

If you want to make discount code as a required field, this plugin will help.

During checkout when a customer will try to purchase without entering any discount code, checkout process will be interrupted and customer will see an error notice.

You can configure the error notice text from “Downloads>Force Discount” menu from admin panel.

Screenshots

  • From admin panel, Click on “Downloads>Force Discount” to visit the plugin settings page.
  • In checkout page, when users will try to purchase without entering any discount code, they’ll see an error notice.

Installation

From your WordPress dashboard

  1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
  2. Search for ‘Force Discount for EDD’
  3. Activate ‘Force Discount for EDD’ from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org

  1. Download ‘Force Discount for EDD’.
  2. Upload the ‘edd-force-discount’ folder to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…)
  3. Activate ‘Force Discount for EDD’ from your Plugins page.

After that you can configure the plugin settings from “Downloads>Force Discount” menu from admin panel.

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Contributors & Developers

“Force Discount for EDD” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.0.1: Sep 28, 2025

  • Tweak: Plugin name updated

1.0.0: December 20, 2015

  • Initial release