Downloads (PDFs)

Delightful Downloads notes

Adding an individual download

Delightful Downloads is the download manager we are using to handle our PDF files and other downloads. (Word, Excel, graphic files, etc.)

Downloads are added using the Downloads > Add New menu item in the admin area sidebar menu.

Downloads can be added to pages in the form of a link, often used within a paragraph, or a button, used for higher-profile documents that want to be featured more prominently.

Here is an example of a document added as a link within a paragraph: Columbia River Treaty Fact Sheet

If a link to a PDF is to be used on its own line, or as part of a list of links, it is strongly recommended that the link be added to a bullet. as shown below:

Columbia River Treaty Fact Sheet

If a link is used as a button, it can be added within a column, or on its own line:

Columbia River Treaty Fact Sheet

If a link to a PDF is used on a page, but you would like to change the text of the link:

Click here.

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Adding a list of Downloads

An automatic list of downloads that are all in the same category can be generated using a shortcode like the one below:

You can look up the category ‘slugs’ for the type of document you want to show under Downloads > Categories in the admin area left hand side menu. By default these are ordered by title.

Ordering a list of downloads by date

You can order lists of documents by their date of upload by adding the orderby parameter, as shown below:

You can change from oldest to newest by adding a DESC order parameter:

or flip it around with ASC:

However, ordering by date will only work if the documents have the correct publication date set in each document record, as shown in the righthand column below:

Delightful Downloads documentation

Delightful downloads has a lot of additional capabilities, including generating automatic lists of downloads, sorting lists by date, and tracking downloads statistics. The documentation covers these advance features:

Delightful Downloads documentation.

See Resources for a look at the resource library and how it relates to Downloads.
See Tiles for use of the Document Tile, which links a thumbnail cover image to a PDF.

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