Download Manager Widgets Add-On for WordPress

There are 6 widgets included with the add-on. Download Word Cloud, Download Dynamic Cloud, Download Color Cloud, Download Bubble Chart, Download Category Widget and Download Single Random Download.

To learn more about the included widgets see this Help article.

There are shortcodes included with the add-on that allow you to insert widgets into post and page content, so you can easily specify which page on your site display the widgets as well as specifying the location within the page where the widget should be displayed.

To learn more about the shortcodes see this Help article.

They can interact with them. Clicking on an item within the widget will direct the site user to the download category.

Yes. Both when widgets are added to sidebars through Appearance → Widgets or when they’re added through the included shortcodes, the content and appearance of the widgets is highly customizable.

To learn more about customizing the widgets see this Help article.

Yes. There are a few different options on how this can be achieved. The quickest is to simply limit the number of categories that are displayed in the widget.

Alternatively you can choose to display based on tags. With this in mind you can use a more limited number of tags for your downloads and use them to display downloads within the widgets.

To learn more about controlling your widgets see this Help article.