Simple Download Monitor
Easily manage downloadable files and monitor downloads of your digital files from your WordPress site.
4.6(151 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, Simple Download Monitor is a WordPress count plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 151 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.3M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 12% this week. Support resolution rate: 67%. Top alternative: Post View Count.
4.6/5151 reviews
20K+active installs
67%resolved
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
I developed the Simple Download Monitor plugin because I needed a nice way to manage my digital downloads and monitor the number of downloads of my files and documents.
This plugin is very useful for managing and tracking your digital file download counts.
You can password protect your downloadable files and documents too (visitors will require a password before downloading the file when you use this option).
You can configure downloadable files from your WordPress admin dashboard via an elegant user interface. Then allow your visitors to download the files and this plugin will monitor which files get downloaded how many times.
The plugin will log the IP addresses of the users who download your digital files and documents. It will also log the date and time of each download.
It has a very…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Love it
by bud8ie·4 days ago·1 reply
Been using it for years and it does the job perfectly. Plenty of features but simple enough to use.
Great Plug-in
by goerage·1 week ago
Lifesaver, if in need for a simple and reliable download app. Thanks!!!
Clean, Simple and it just works!
by Nico Visagie·1 week ago·1 reply
I have been using this plugin for a few years now on two of the websites I manage and I cannot imagine using another plugin like this. I tried to, but I always come back to this one! Setup is fairly easy and it just works! No issues, no guess work, clean and simple! If you want something simple that works out of the box, then look no further!
Great plugin, but missing taxonomy image ?!
by rrvoigt·1 week ago·1 reply
Hi there,
Great plugin – really enjoying it so far. The only thing I’m missing is the ability to add an image to a category (taxonomy) item. At the moment the category preview card shows an empty image area, which doesn’t look very polished.
Is there any way to add or enable a category image?
If this could be addressed, it would definitely be a 5‑star plugin for me.
Thanks for the good work!
Molt bon plugin
by mandigit·4 months ago·1 reply
Un plugin molt complet, amb totes les opcions que necessitava i molt senzill de configurar-usar.
Download Trends
Today: 121Yesterday: 161This week: 875Period total: 206K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.0
62.0%
v3.9
31.7%
Other
6.3%
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Changelog
4.0.6
- Added output escaping functions to the fancy display templates.
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