Download After Email – Subscribe & Download Form Plugin
Download After Email is a free Subscribe & Download plugin that allows you to gain subscribers by offering free downloads.
4.4(30 reviews)
·7.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Download After Email is a WordPress Opt-in plugin with 7.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 30 reviews. It has been downloaded 131K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 45% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Convertful – Your Ultimate On-Site….
4.4/530 reviews
7.0K+active installs
0%resolved
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Download After Email is a free Subscribe & Download plugin that allows you to gain subscribers by offering free downloads.
Subscribe & Download Form
Creating a new subscribe & download form is pretty much the same as creating a new post or page, only with some extra options. If you are satisfied with the preview you can save the form and place the generated shortcode on a page, post or widget. It is possible to create multiple subscribe & download forms.
Enter Email Before Download
A visitor must enter his email address before the download link will be sent via email. For the secured download links, a limit type can be set such as one-time, unlimited or time-based and the download process is protected against unauthorized use. You can choose whether to send an email notifi…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works like a dream
by alanparker73·10 months ago
So, pretty straightforward install and configuration (unlike many of the similar products) – quick to create download links. Add the shortcode to your page – all done. Great.
Tested and works really well
by stephunique·2 years ago
This plugin works pretty well, the files are sent immediately, which is fantastic. You can also set the options so that if you have more than one file to offer as a download, you can allow the same email to be used (go to options and check the unlimited emails box). You can make more than one download link too.
Yes, the URL has the file name in it eg yourwebsite dot com /?file=PDF.pdf (followed by the rest of the URL) but if you use that link directly, it takes you to the homepage, not the file, so you can’t access the PDF file directly.
What’s great: You can customise the buttons and headings and text colours, heading content and a picture for your file eg a book cover for an ebook and you can change the size for it too.
What could be improved:
For some reason I could not change the “from” email address from the no-reply one to an actual email address in case I want to make it easy for customers to reply. I set a new email address but the file links are still sent from a no-reply email address.
It would be great if we could have a form that can collect a name.
Also you can only upload PDFs for download and not JPGs.
Also, the edited download file heading and text does not update when I edit and update it – my workaround is to delete it and make a new one. Tedious but seems to be the only option.
- This topic was modified 2 years ago by Yui.
- This topic was modified 2 years ago by stephunique. Reason: Add more detail
Good Plugin ..
by Hanu·2 years ago
Good features .. needs a bit of customization for frontend
Excellent plugin
by Maurizio·2 years ago
Helped me a lot, great support!
Content of the email
by srdjan777·3 years ago·2 replies
Hi,
First of all – this Plugin is awesome!!!
I have one more question:
I´m using your Plugin on Website with two diferent Languages translated with TranslatePress (English and German).
Is there any way to translate the content of the email that will be sent to the subscriber?
For example,
if the user is on the German website and clicks on download there, that the content of the email is written in German.
Otherwise, in English (when the user is on the English website).
thanks in advance,
Srdjan
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.1
95.8%
v2.0
4.2%
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Changelog
2.1.10
- Improved security against arbitrary file download from (dae-)uploads folder.
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