Lorangeo

Hi again,

Just a quick follow-up on the suggestion I posted a while back.

Extending support to use the WooCommerce external product URL (_product_url) would really improve the plugin’s flexibility. Likely a light addition, since it would just require checking one extra meta field as a fallback.

Thanks again for the great plugin, and for considering this enhancement!

• This reply was modified 10 months ago by Lorangeo.

Hi Pete,

Thank you very much for your reply. I’ll wait a bit and hope you’ll be able to consider this feature in the future. 🙂

Best regards,
Laurent

Hi,

In WooCommerce > Free Downloads > Settings > PDF Settings, I have the “Enable PDF Viewer” option ❌ unchecked.

In WooCommerce > Products > Downloadable Products > Open in browser, I’ve tested enabling and disabling the following option:

“Open downloadable files in the browser, instead of saving them to the device.”

When this option is ✅ enabled, the PDF opens correctly in the browser (tested with Chrome and Edge). However, when I try to download the file using the native browser viewer’s Download button, a “Save As” dialog appears with the filename set to “download” and the file type as “All files (.)”. The download fails and returns an error (see my first post for details).

When the option is ❌ disabled, the PDF is downloaded directly to the computer without being previewed in the browser, which is not the desired behavior.

What I would like is the following: when users click on a PDF link served via Free Downloads, the file should open in their browser for preview, and they should then be able to download it properly—this is not currently working as intended.

Note: Just for your information, I also tried enabling the “Enable PDF Viewer” option in the Free Downloads settings, but it has never had any effect for me, regardless of my WooCommerce configuration (I tested all possible combinations). This option simply doesn’t seem to work.

Do you think the reference I made to HTTP headers for PDF files in my first post might be something worth checking in your plugin?

I really need the download to work, but only after the PDF has been opened in the browser first. This is essential for the user experience.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I am referring to the Shop Page. You can see an example here:

https://hepicerie.com/ressources

Since I don’t sell any products on the site (all of them are available as free downloads thanks to this plugin), there are no sales recorded by WooCommerce, and therefore no way for WooCommerce to sort them by popularity.

However, since Free Downloads tracks the number of downloads for each resource, I assumed the popularity sorting would be based on that number (number of downloads). At least, that seemed logical to me.

Apparently, that’s not the case. Would it be possible to add this option to the plugin? It would be a fantastic improvement.

Thank you very much for considering this suggestion.

Hi, thank you for the update! I’ve just installed it and it works perfectly!

Would it be possible to add the following property, which is very important?

 "educationalAlignment": {
    "@type": "AlignmentObject",
    "alignmentType": "educationalSubject",
    "targetName": "Mathematics" (<-- just an example)
  }

It might be interesting to also add the two following properties:

• audience (ex: learners, teachers, school directors…)
• author (very important for user rights) (! not necessarily the same as the post author who is only describing the resource)

Hi!

Thank you taking the time to answer my question!

Interestingly it works for the filters options (on the side), but not for the active filters (that show on the top).

I edited both the wcapf_rename_product_types_in_filter_options and wcapf_rename_product_types_in_active_filters to add the new names. But it only works for the filter options.

However: Don’t you think you should verify and maybe change how your plugin is displaying these “product type” terms? Because (sorry if I’m wrong), it looks like the plugin displays the raw slug version of the product types (“simple”, “external”…) instead of their display name (“Simple, “External”) for this particular filter (product type). Because for the other filters, it shows the correct name (and not the slug).

Hi!

After some troubleshooting, I decided to adjust the display settings in the Customizer. I set the “Shop page display” and “Category display” to “Show products” only. With these settings and my original code, the categories were no longer appearing either before or inside the shop loop.

But I made these modifications to the code:

add_action( 'woocommerce_before_shop_loop', 'cg_show_product_categories', 10 );

function cg_show_product_categories() {
    // Check if we're on a category page
    if ( is_product_category() ) {
        // Output subcategories for the current category
        woocommerce_output_product_categories( array(
            'parent_id' => get_queried_object_id(),
            'before'    => '<ul class="products subcategories">',
            'after'     => '</ul>',
        ) );
    } else {
        // Output root categories for the shop page
        woocommerce_output_product_categories( array(
            'before' => '<ul class="products subcategories">',
            'after'  => '</ul>',
        ) );
    }
}

It now works as expected. With these changes, the categories (or subcategories) are displayed correctly – before the shop loop only!

I will mark the topic as resolved. Thank you for the help!