Quick Download Button

Quick Download Button lets you add professional download buttons anywhere on your WordPress site with minimal effort. Whether you are sharing PDFs, music, software, videos, or archives, every aspect of the button — style, colour, icon, countdown, and access rules — is controlled from a clean settings panel or a single shortcode.

Seven button styles

• Large — full-width panel with prominent icon area
• Mid — compact horizontal layout
• Small — minimal inline style
• Basic — clean, no-frills button
• Pill — modern rounded pill shape
• Card — elevated card with a panel background
• Ghost — outlined transparent style

Countdown timer and popup modal

Set a wait time in seconds before the download starts. During the countdown an animated spinner and optional message keep the visitor informed.

Add a popup modal to display any content while the countdown runs — AdSense, banner ads, custom HTML, shortcodes, or any other embed code. You control whether the visitor can dismiss the popup early or whether it stays until the download fires automatically.

Full feature list

• Works with both the Gutenberg block editor and the Classic Editor via shortcode
• Button Row block and [quick_download_button_group] shortcode — place multiple buttons side by side with gap, alignment, and stack-on-mobile controls
• Countdown timer — configurable wait time in seconds with a custom message
• Popup modal during countdown — show ads or custom HTML/shortcodes while the timer runs; optionally prevent dismissal until the download starts
• File size display — auto-calculated from the WordPress uploads folder, or enter any text manually (works with external URLs too)
• File type icon — automatically detected for common extensions
• Custom download icons — choose from 10 built-in icons or supply your own SVG
• Custom file size icons — same built-in set or custom SVG
• Icon position — left or right of the button label
• Access control — restrict downloads to logged-in users or specific roles
• External URL support — link to files hosted anywhere
• Hidden download links — the real file URL is never exposed in the page source
• Force download — bypasses the browser’s open-in-tab behaviour for supported file types
• Open in new tab or same window
• Custom button colour, font colour, border, border-radius, padding, and alignment
• Panel colour for Card, Pill, and Ghost styles
• Multisite compatible
• Optimised loading — CSS and JS only enqueue on pages that contain a download button

Supported file types for automatic icon display:

pdf, `mp3`, `mov`, `zip`, `txt`, `doc`, `xml`, `mp4`, `ppt`, `htm`, `html`, `ps`, `tex`, `csv`, `xlsx`, `pptx`, `js`, `css`, `php`, and common images (`png`, `gif`, `jpg`, `jpeg`, `bmp`).

Developer-friendly

The plugin exposes several action and filter hooks so add-on plugins can extend it without editing core files:

• qdb_editor_localize_data — add data to the Gutenberg editor script
• qdb_localize_script_data — add data to the frontend script
• qdb_shortcode_atts — modify parsed shortcode attributes
• qdb_user_can_access — override or extend the access check
• qdb_button_data_atts — inject extra data-* attributes onto the button element
• qdb_shortcode_output — filter the final button HTML before output

Basic Usage

Gutenberg Block

1. Open the post or page editor and click the Add Block (+) icon.
2. Search for Download Button (listed under the Media category).
3. Click the block to set the button title, then click the upload icon to select or upload your file.
4. Configure colours, countdown, file size, access control, and popup in the block settings sidebar.

Read the full description on the official page →