Easy Media Download is a free download manager for WordPress. It gives your users the ability to download digital media files from your website. The plugin is lightweight and makes downloading easier. You can create beautiful download button which instantly starts the download once clicked. Features
PricingFree downloadThe WordPress.org download is free. Pro versions, add-ons or external services may cost extra.
CompatibilityRequires WordPress 3.0.
SourceWordPress plugins · Nov 3, 2026
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Easy Media Download is a free download manager for WordPress. It gives your users the ability to download digital media files from your website. The plugin is lightweight and makes downloading easier. You can create beautiful download button which instantly starts the download once clicked.
Features
Create quick downloads
Free downloads for music or audio files e.g. mp3, aac, m4a, wav
Insert download buttons into your landing page
Free downloads for video files e.g. mp4, mov, qt (QuickTime), mpg, mpeg, flv, m4v, swf, flash, avi, wma, ogg, webm
Allow users to directly download in all file formats
Free downloads for document file e.g. doc, docx (OpenOffice, Microsoft Word), odt (OpenDocument), htm, html, ps, tex, xml, txt, csv
Allow large file download (No limit on the file size)
Free downloads for Office file e.g. xlsx (Microsoft Excel), pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint)
Free downloads for script e.g. js, css, php
Free downloads for archive or compressed file e.g. tar, rar, zip, 7z, gz, z
Force the browser to open the download prompt
Free downloads for image file e.g. png, gif, jpg, jpeg, bmp
Open the download in a new tab
Free downloads for e-book e.g. pdf, epub
Easy Media Download Add-ons
User Only Download
Embedding Shortcodes for the Downloads
Create a new post/page and use the following shortcode to create a download button for your digital media file:
By default the download starts in the same window. But you can choose to modify it using the “target” parameter.
[easy_media_download url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/myfile.zip" target="_blank"] (opens the download in a new window)<h3>Force File Download</h3>
Usually when a digital file is recognised by the browser it does not prompt for download. The file just opens in the browser instead. You can choose to modify this behaviour using the force_dl parameter in the shortcode.
Easy Media Download comes with 21 different download button templates. All you need to do is specify the style and the button will look just like it. For example:
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