I have at last put my ‘advanced’ version of my Download Counter plugin up for download. At the same time I have retained the simpler version and renamed it ‘Lite’ - a horrible word but you get used to it!

For all those people who wanted to track the downloads of videos, music files and just about anything else that the ‘Lite’ version didnt handle too well, well now you can.

I have also added much organisation to this version. You can organise your downloads into sub-folders which equate to ‘categories’. Much easier to deal with when you have a large number of them. I should know as am up to over 50 items myself and this new version keeps it much tidier and quicker to find the one you want in the completely re-designed admin panel.

Just beware that if you upgrade to this new version from a previous ‘Lite’ version there ARE some data changes you need to make. it couldn’t be helped. They are fully explained in the Guide that is part of the zip package.

For more information, a list of supported file types and the download visit the plugin page.

Many users of my Download Counter plugin have, in the past, requested that it support video, music and other media type files. Well the good news is that I now have a pre-release ‘advanced’ version up and working - in use here on my site as it happens - that now supports a long list of file types. It also supports categories with parallel sub-folders and paging of the download file list as well as list filtering.

The downside of this is that the current data anyone has built up wont work with this new version without some editing. A pain I know but that was the price. It took me about 8 minutes to convert my list although that’s only about 38 download entries. I could have done it much quicker editing the database directly however!

I am looking for anyone interested in helping test this new version. I have not found any problems yet on my own site but it could do with a more complex set of test data including some media file types. If anyone is interested then please use the Contact link on the About tab on the sidebar and let me know and I can send it along to them.

I had two reasons for outting out a quick update to this plugin. The first were a couple of people telling me that the admin buttons didn’t all work in Internet Explorer 7. The other was my own realisation that if you had very long download url’s, the admin page was too wide to fit on the screen!

So both of these have been corrected in 1.2, with the Admin screen taking on a new look.

For full details: Download Counter plugin page.