Easy Digital Downloads Featured Downloads

Featured Downloads is now part of EDD Core

As of Easy Digital Downloads 3.5.1, the Featured Downloads addon is included in Easy Digital Downloads. You no longer need this addon to use the Featured Downloads feature.

About this Addon

This plugin requires Easy Digital Downloads. It’s aimed at developers/clients who need to show a list of featured downloads.

1. Provides a template tag so finely-tuned placement of featured downloads in your theme is possible.
2. Provides a shortcode which will simply list all the featured downloads, without the need to enter any IDs.
3. Provides a simple interface for managing featured downloads in the WordPress admin. A “feature download” checkbox will be added to each download edit/publish screen as well as the quick edit boxes. At a glance you’ll also be able to see which downloads have been featured on your website from the main download listing.

Shortcode Usage

Add the “featured” attribute to the existing [downloads] shortcode provided by Easy Digital Downloads:

[downloads featured="yes"]

Template Tag Usage

The following code can be used to show the featured downloads anywhere in your theme:

echo do_shortcode( '[downloads featured="yes"]' );

You can include any other attributes supported by the [downloads] shortcode.

Building your own Query

To build your own query using WP_Query you can use the meta_key parameter with a value of edd_feature_download. The following example builds a simple unordered list with all the featured downloads.

<?php

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'download',
    'meta_key'  => 'edd_feature_download',
);

$featured_downloads = new WP_Query( $args );

if( $featured_downloads->have_posts() ) : ?>

    <ul>
        <?php while( $featured_downloads->have_posts() ) : $featured_downloads->the_post(); ?>
        <li>
           <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">
                <?php the_title(); ?>
           </a>
        </li>
        <?php endwhile; ?>
    </ul>

<?php endif; wp_reset_postdata(); ?>