Easy way to provide free sample downloads on product page
For many kinds of products a free sample download is useful (software, plugins, themes, books, etc.)
Right now there is no easy way to include this into a product page.
Would be good to have an additional option "product has free sample download", a way to upload the file directly in the product admin, a text field for the sample download teaser text, a nice button with customizable text, - voila.
Increases sales like nuts for a lot of products!
Martin from WaldWort digital publishing
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4 comments
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Winf
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14. Februar 2012 this was posted. Still nothing... A few plug-ins where made but where never updated. I hope after 8 years, woo can create one.
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Aymen Yaseen
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@Patrick Garman, yes that maybe the case if you have less than 50 products, this workaround is simply horrendous when you have 5000 books store, and want to add samples to each and every product.. Simply wooCommerce sucks at this!
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Patrick Garman
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The problem there is that system is designed where it requires an order. If you want to have samples then you would need it to go through without an order, and then your back to where it's hotlinking.
What you could do is create a folder "samples" on your server. So if you go to example.com/samples/coolfile.pdf the sample is downloaded. Then put the link in your description and upload the new file as you have new samples
This would actually be easier to maintain then an option on the product side as you don't even have to login to WordPress to do this.
To prevent hot linking you can setup some server settings where the file does not download if the referrer is not example.com
Compared to this solution would you still prefer a on product option?
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Patrick Garman
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What about using the standard WordPress media uploader, then putting a link in the description? Don't think you can get any easier than that.