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I am currently using WPDM (Wordpress Download Manager) to search for and display 15000 PDFs.
See: http://superbrands2018.cloudaccess.host/brandsearch-3/

The main problem with WPDM software is that I keep all the PDFs on AWS S3 and WPDM keeps a copy locally on the server which defeats the object of storing the data on S3. If I search for say "McDonald's" - No files are found as there is an apostrophe in the filename. Support for this product is very slow and if there is a bug, then the support person logs into the wordpress admin and fixes it, but I have no idea what they did and then I cant risk an update to WPDM. I'm also on the bug mailing list and its the same for all the WPDM customers.

Do you think WP File Download would be able to do the job and could the search and results look exactly the same as the site above with CSS? I do not need to search the contents or the PDFs , just the Brand name in the title.
A
7 years ago
Hi,

Thanks for contacting us here about this extension.
I'm sorry our plugin couldn't connect to AWS S3 currently.
However, you can search files from other clouds, e.g: Google drive, Dropbox and Onedrive.

Regards,
T
Hi,

Well in the latest version we add an option to auto index PDF in full text to return instant search results. But of course it requires the files to be hosted locally.
We've planned to add Amazon as an external storage but we have several version release on the way before that.

For the layout sure, you basically need to design the search result the search field and the button, as per the file listing, you can create your own theme from the configuration.

Support for this product is very slow and if there is a bug

Sounds good to us :)


Cheers,
E
7 years ago
I cannot get the results from the search to be ascending order by the filename.
A
7 years ago
Hi eltonbean,

Thanks for your response.
I cannot get the results from the search to be ascending order by the filename.

Yes, you can order by clicking to File type / File name and the files will be arranged asc or desc.

Hope it helps!
Regards,
E
7 years ago
No, I want to set the default to asc by filename.

Simon
A
7 years ago
Hi eltonbean,

Thanks for your response.
You can see our reply in the ticket.

Thanks a lot!
Regards,
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