dtynan

Yes, thanks. I think that URL looks good (you’ll note that it looks normal and doesn’t have the … that you & the other commenter were seeing [see the first comment in this item]).

So, I think the problem is we need to replace that WP_PLUGIN_DIR in two places in email-before-download.php and in one place in download.php. I’m just trying to figure out exactly what to replace it with (currently looking at this function http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/plugin_dir_path which seems to indicate that the function we actually need doesn’t exist [plugins_dir_path], which makes things more difficult for me). Anyway, give me a few more minutes & we’ll take another stab at this and if we still can’t get it working then I’ll make a 4.4 setup tonight & figure it all out & have an answer by tomorrow. But, hopefully I won’t have to do that .. gimme a few mins to come up with something & I’ll post back.

what is the URL that it is trying to go to? (what does the download link actually link to?)

ok on the http/https thing. Try my suggestion and see if it works (assuming you are comfortable editing the file).

You don’t really have to pay them the $10 (assuming this change works), but if you want to see a new version of the plugin with the problem “officially fixed” then I’m guessing that’s probably the best way. Up to you of course.

Just fyi, I’m not the author of this plugin, but the authors (M&S Consulting) do have a paid support deal for $10. One of you might consider doing that to have them fix this & release a new version.

That said, you can probably hack in a fix with just a few changes in email-before-download.php. I have not tried this because I don’t have a 4.4 setup, so you guys will have to try this & see if it works…

So what I think needs to happen is that you need to find the 5 lines that are using “WP_PLUGIN_URL” (which is a wordpress internal variable or constant I believe) and change it to “plugins_url()” and I think that will do it. The double-quotes are not included, I just put them there to make it clear what is changing.

Before you change email-before-download.php, be sure and make a copy of it and put it in some other directory, just in case. So this is basically a straight text replace of that exact string — don’t change anything else around it like spacing before it for that period that comes right after it, you just want to make WP_PLUGIN_URL become plugins_url() and leave everything else exactly the same.

There should be 5 occurrences of that I think. I believe it will be lines 531, 588, 844, 853, and 904.

After making the changes, save it. Use your browser and go to your page that has your email before download form on it and hold down the shift key & click reload (or refresh) to make sure you get a new copy (rather than a cached copy) and then retest and see if you have the same problem (or a new problem). If it doesn’t work, post the URL it gives you back in here like you did initially.

My guess is that this problem will only affect WP 4.4 installations that are using https … people using http may not see the issue (or they may, I’m just guessing really).

I don’t think so.

Xavvi, sorry I slightly confused you with this poster on this item – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/several-buttons-to-download-on-the-same-page-email-before-download?replies=1

so the stuff about your “production environment” was for him really, not you. Regardless, both of you are sort of trying to do the same thing, so my update still more or less applies.

You can either do a single file download setup (1 file for the form) and it can show up as a link on the page (via ajax), as an emailed link to the user’s email address (with or without attachment), or both.

Or, you can do multiple file download which is supported by checkboxes. See both the setup instructions AND the screenshots section of the plugin info on here in order to figure out how to set it up as checkboxes — you have to use either an ebd or ebd_left code and you have to get the spacing right (it needs a space before the end / > stuff). See the screenshots.

There is no support for a dropdown.

Normally, EBD will send 1 email to the WordPress administrator (you), assuming you have set it up as instructed. In the part where you are configuring the Contact Form 7 stuff you are doing 2 things: one, you are setting up the form fields that a website visitor would type his info into (his name & his email address) and two, you are setting up the information for what I call the “notification email”. The notification email is the one that goes to you (the WP admin) whenever a user fills in the form & hits submit in order to download a file you have set up (or possibly multiple files). Once the user hits submit on the form, he either gets a link that appears on the screen to download the file or he gets an email with a link to the file (and/or the file as an attachment) or both, depending on how you configured the settings. If you configured “both” or “email” then the system sends the user an email. That email is completely handled internally by EBD, it does not use Contact Form 7 for that. The Contact Form 7 config is just for your notification email.

I can’t quite figure out exactly what you have done in your set up, but if you are not getting a notification email (but do get other emails from wordpress to the admin), then something probably isn’t configured correctly. I suggest you go back through the installation instructions & also look closely at the screenshots — you might need to kind of look at both to get it set up right, depending on what you are doing.

If you can’t figure it out, post more info about your configuration (like your CF7 settings .. maybe some screenshots)