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WP-DownloadManager · Version history

WP-DownloadManager changelog and version history

Latest version
2.0.2
Oct 2, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
28
since 2007
In the last year
5
about one every 58 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 8.2 or later

Releases each year

  • 20071 release
  • 20082 releases
  • 20091 release
  • 20101 release
  • 20144 releases
  • 20153 releases
  • 20161 release
  • 20181 release
  • 20202 releases
  • 20212 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20241 release
  • 20253 releases
  • 20265 releases

20265 releases

  1. WP-DownloadManager 2.0.2Latest

    • FIXED: Updating to 2.0.1 could reset your download path to wp-content, and every file then answered “File does not exist” — the listing still showed them, the links still pointed at them, and none of them downloaded. The update re-checks your settings, and the check that keeps the download path ins…
    • FIXED: Manage Downloads lost its ID column in 2.0.0, which left the Edit link’s URL as the only place on that screen to find the number [download id="…"] needs. The column is back, and sorts

  2. WP-DownloadManager 2.0.1

    • NEW: A Settings link on the plugin’s row on the Plugins screen
    • CHANGED: A stylesheet named wp-downloadmanager.css in the parent theme now overrides the plugin’s copy too; a child theme’s copy still wins over both
    • CHANGED: The update migration runs on any request rather than only when an admin page loads, so a site updated by an automatic background update no longer serves its front end from unmigrated settings until somebody logs in
    • FIXED: A fresh install shipped one category, General, in the numbered slot that means “no category”, so the Add File dropdown offered it as category 0 and every file you added was filed there. The first time you saved the Settings tab — for any reason at all — the category list was renumbered and G…
    • FIXED: Manage Downloads read “N/A” for a file in no category, or in one you had deleted, while the Delete File confirmation for that same file left the category blank — one click apart, on the row you had just clicked

  3. WP-DownloadManager 2.0.0

    • FIXED: %FILE% and %FILE_DOWNLOAD_URL% were substituted into the templates unescaped, where %FILE_NAME% and %FILE_DESCRIPTION% are filtered. Those two are the fields a site owner is meant to put markup in; a file path and a URL are not. The stock templates put the URL in a double-quoted attribute, w…
    • FIXED: Search highlighting rewrote already-rendered markup, so a search term that happened to appear inside an attribute — example in a stored link to example.com — spliced the highlight into the middle of the attribute and ended it early. Any visitor could corrupt a listing’s markup through the se…
    • FIXED: The Browse source stored whatever file name was posted, and the download endpoint read it. A name climbing out of the downloads directory — /../../../wp-config.php — was accepted by Add File and served to anyone, because the stored name is a relative path and neither sanitize_text_field() no…
    • FIXED: A remote file URL was checked for its scheme and its port and nothing else, so http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ and http://127.0.0.1/ were both accepted — and the endpoint proxies a remote file with readfile(), which is not wp_safe_remote_get() and makes none of the checks WordPress…
    • BREAKING: Requires WordPress 6.8 and PHP 8.2.
    • BREAKING: The downloads_page filter is now wp_downloadmanager_page and the download_embedded filter is now wp_downloadmanager_embedded. The old names are gone.
    • BREAKING: The nineteen download_* option rows are consolidated into wp_downloadmanager_options, and the schema marker into wp_downloadmanager_version. Settings are migrated automatically and the old rows deleted.
    • BREAKING: Download Options and Download Templates are two tabs on one Settings page, so their admin URLs have changed.
    • BREAKING: Every class gained a WP_DownloadManager_ prefix, and DownloadManager_Templates became WP_DownloadManager_Template.
    • BREAKING: %FILE_ICON% is the complete icon element rather than a GIF file name, and the plugin ships no images at all.
    • BREAKING: The stats_display and stats_mostlimit rows shared with WP-Stats are replaced by this plugin’s own settings, and WP-Stats collects sections through the wp_stats_sections filter.
    • NEW: A wp downloadmanager WP-CLI command: list, get, stats, reset-hits and delete, the last two asking for confirmation and delete --delete-file taking the file off the server as well.
    • NEW: Two editor blocks, Download and Downloads Page, wrapping [download] and [page_download]. The shortcodes are unchanged, still registered and still supported — [download], [download=2], [page_download] and [page_downloads] all behave exactly as before, nothing needs re-saving, and the blocks ren…
    • NEW: Manage Downloads is a real WP_List_Table, with sortable columns, row actions, bulk delete, a search box and a per-user rows-per-page setting.
    • NEW: One inline SVG icon sprite, drawn in the theme’s own colour and covering modern file types the GIF set never had.
    • NEW: Restructured into includes/class-wp-downloadmanager-*.php, with nothing loose at the plugin root.
    • NEW: The wp_downloadmanager_capability filter controls who reaches each screen.
    • NEW: The widget supports selective refresh in the customizer.
    • CHANGED: Dropped jQuery entirely. The quicktag, editor button, timestamp toggle and template reset buttons are vanilla JavaScript, and inline onclick= handlers are gone.
    • CHANGED: The stylesheet sets no fonts or colours, uses CSS logical properties so one file serves both text directions, and honours prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-motion.
    • FIXED: SQL injection in get_downloads_category(), reachable by anyone able to edit a widget, which could expose files marked Hidden.
    • FIXED: SQL injection in the Manage Downloads search box.
    • FIXED: The listing and feed sort columns reached ORDER BY unvalidated.
    • FIXED: The upload subfolder was not constrained to the downloads directory.
    • FIXED: A file name or description holding markup reached the downloads page and the [download] shortcode unescaped, where the widget and the WP-Stats sections had always filtered it. All five now run it through one allow list.
    • FIXED: A search term containing regex metacharacters blanked the file name it was highlighting.
    • FIXED: wp_get_sites() was removed in WordPress 5.1, so activating or uninstalling on a network fatalled; uninstall also stopped at 100 sites and unwound switch_to_blog() one short.
    • FIXED: The widget’s “Display Link To Download Page?” setting never showed as selected and silently reverted, and widget edits made in the block widget editor or the customizer were discarded.
    • FIXED: Files in a deleted category no longer emit “Undefined array key” warnings on PHP 8.
    • FIXED: The downloads directory is actually created on activation now.

  4. WP-DownloadManager 1.69.2

  5. WP-DownloadManager 1.69.1

20253 releases

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.69

  2. WP-DownloadManager 1.68.11

  3. WP-DownloadManager 1.68.10

20241 release

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.68.9

20231 release

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.68.8

20212 releases

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.68.7

  2. WP-DownloadManager 1.68.6

20202 releases

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.68.5

  2. WP-DownloadManager 1.68.4

20181 release

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.68.2

20161 release

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.68.1

20153 releases

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.67

  2. WP-DownloadManager 1.66

  3. WP-DownloadManager 1.65

20144 releases

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.64

  2. WP-DownloadManager 1.63

  3. WP-DownloadManager 1.62

  4. WP-DownloadManager 1.61

20101 release

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.50

20091 release

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.40

20082 releases

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.31

  2. WP-DownloadManager 1.30

20071 release

  1. WP-DownloadManager 1.00

Questions about WP-DownloadManager’s releases

What is the latest version of WP-DownloadManager?

2.0.2, released on Oct 2, 2026 (1 month ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 8.2 or later.

How often is WP-DownloadManager updated?

5 releases in the last year, about one every 58 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from September 2007.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in WP-DownloadManager’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.