Offering File Downloads With Wordpress

Writen By Tyler Ingram on Apr 10, 2008

I have added a new page to my blog – Downloads, which currently serves two purposes. The first is that it will allow me to showcase various WordPress plugins I have created. The second will be a test bed for a WordPress plugin for which people would be able to download and install onto their blog to offer files to their visitors.

My Current Downloads.

Currently the only download available is the MyTechnorati WordPress plugin. The MyTechnorati plugin is an easy to use dynamically generated image badge that displays your ranking with Technorati. Using your API key from Technorati, it will retrieve your current rank and store it in your WordPress database for display anywhere on your blog with the call of a simple function.

Due to the limitations of the Technorati API, the code periodically checks with Technorati so that you do not go over their daily API call limit. Every hour when MyTechnoarti function is executed it will check with Technorati to see if you’re ranking has changed and update accordingly.

Coming Soon

With my previous incantation of my blog before I was using WordPress, I had a PHP script that would allow me to display the titles of my 5 most recent blog posts and insert them into a nice graphic so that I could display them in a signature on various forums.

I will be looking at creating something similar for WordPress. The plan is to allow people to change the font, background image and how many topics they wish to show so that it will dynamically create a graphic file with your post titles that could be used in a signature. You would be able to use this signature wherever you can utilize hyperlinked images, such as emails and forum.

Another project I will be working on will be the converting of the Downloads page into an easy to use WordPress plugin. The theory behind the plugin will be:

Drop in the downloads.php template file into your theme directory
Drop in the MyDownloads plugin into the plugin directory
Upload files to the database/blog via the MyDownloads plugin and customize the look of the download page to suit your needs
Do some basic stat tracking of your offered files etc.

The reason for this WordPress plugin is simiple; allow people to showcase and display whatever files it is they wish to offer to their visitors. In my case it will be WordPress plugins.

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