Title: button links
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# button links

 *  Resolved [canadian_srt10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/canadian_srt10/)
 * (@canadian_srt10)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-links/)
 * How can you make the button links automatically download the a file? Right now
   it just opens a new window/tab and starts to load in whatever player is your 
   default for a mp3.
 * I’d prefer when you click “download” it actually opens the file system and asks
   where you want to save the file.
 * Does that make sense?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/html5-jquery-audio-player/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/html5-jquery-audio-player/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Maeve Lander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enigmaweb/)
 * (@enigmaweb)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-links/#post-3237193)
 * If you want to force the browser to save the file rather than just display it
   in the browser you need to link to a script that initiates the download, rather
   than to the file itself.
 * You could do this using JavaScript or PHP or on the server side, depending on
   your level of coding knowledge and requirements. Run a search on Google for “
   script to initiate download” and I think you will find a good number of tutorials
   for this.
 * Alternatively you could link to a .zip (as opposed to an audio file) which browsers
   will automatically download rather than open/play.
 * Hope this answers your query.

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 * Last reply from: [Maeve Lander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enigmaweb/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-links/#post-3237193)
 * Status: resolved