I first found your site because of your wonderful Admin dropdown menu plugin. All the clicking in the admin panel has annoyed me for years… obviously it annoyed you too. Thank you.
I then restumbled across your site because I'm searching for forum solutions. I have a SMF forum up and running and trying to figure out what to do continues to be a thorn in my side.
Anyway, I just sat down and researched all of your plugins, and this one caught my eye. I run an established web site that has a number of PDFs for download. I don't keep stats on dl for these, but I'd love to start. I immediately dl'd your plugin and read the manual, but it seems I'd need to move all my files around… which I'm a bit concerned about doing since, as mentioned, the PDFs are all already in established positions and I don't want to create 404s on my site.
It's also worth noting that my site isn't really set up like a blog at all - it's page heavy and blog lite. The downloads I'm looking to track are links from pages, not posts. I don't need any sort of 'one stop downloading' page for users.
Basically, I'm a little confused after reading the manual. At first, from reading the descriptions of both Lite and Advanced, I thought I was getting a plugin which let me tell it the URL of the PDF and gave me a new URL to put where the old one was. This is perfect, since people who bookmarked the PDF might not get counted, but at least wouldn't get 404'd. But now it looks like the advanced plug in actually creates some sort of master download page for users, with everything sorted out. I see in the manaul how to display download count, but I don't see a way to just have a download link.
Can you shed any light on these issues? (Sorry for the longwinded post… but you've got some amazing plugins)
And, just to throw one more question in the mix - I notice there is a field for 'download speed'. Are you saying that I can control the speed of users downloading a PDF? If I leave this blank will it default to the server max?
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