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Downloads on your website

Does your website have Downloads? Then you can put files on it that visitors can open or download, such as a brochure, a price list or a registration form. You organise them in groups and replace a file with a new version in one click. Where the downloads appear on your website is determined by your design.

Adding files

  1. Go to Collections and click Downloads.
  2. Drag one or more files from your computer onto the list, or onto the group they belong in (for example Brochures). You can also click: Upload files at the top, or Add files next to a group.
  3. Each file becomes a download. The title comes from the file name: price-list-2027.pdf becomes Price list 2027. Click a download to improve the title or add a short description.
  4. New downloads are a draft (orange). Click Publish at the top right to put them on your website.

Prefer one download with everything at once? Click Add download, drop the file on the box with the dashed line (or choose it with File manager) and fill in the title.

PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, LibreOffice, text, CSV and ZIP all work. The files go into the Downloads folder in the File manager, with the name they had on your computer. Visitors get the file under that name too, so give it a clear name.

A new version of a file

Is there a new price list or brochure? Replace the file instead of creating a new download:

  1. In the list, click the up arrow next to the download (or open the download and click New version).
  2. Choose the new file and click Replace.

The address on your website stays the same, so links in your texts, newsletters and on other websites keep working. The old version is then gone. The new version is shown right away wherever this file is used; you don't need to publish again.

Groups and order

  • With groups you organise your downloads, for example Brochures, Manuals and Forms. If you don't have any groups yet, the button Create Brochures, Manuals, Forms makes them in one go. With Groups at the top you edit, delete or drag them. If you delete a group, its downloads remain, without a group.
  • Grab a download by the dots and drag it to another place or another group. Then click Save order. With the keyboard: select a download with Tab and move it with Alt + arrow keys.
  • With tags you can also organise downloads per product or service, so your website can, for example, show only the matching manuals for a machine. See Using tags. Above the list you filter by a tag or search for a word; while filtering you can't drag.

On or off, and removing

  • Use the switch to take a download off your website for a while. It is kept; turn the switch back on and it is back on your website.
  • A star means featured: your design can highlight those downloads, for example on your homepage. Turn it on in the download's window.
  • The bin puts a download in the trash for 30 days. After that the file is removed too, if it isn't used anywhere else on your website.

Linking to a download

In a text or on a button you link to a download with Collection item → Downloads (see Creating or changing a link). The link opens the file. If you upload a new version later, the link keeps working. In a newsletter you can also place a download as an item, with a button to download the file (see Creating and sending a newsletter).

Multilingual website?

You fill in the title and description per language (or let them be translated automatically). Do you also have the document itself in another language, for example an English brochure? Open the download and under File per language choose Other file for English. The English website then shows that file. If you do nothing, every language gets the file of your main language; your website can then add (Dutch) to it.

How many downloads?

At the top of the list, Still available shows how many downloads and how much storage you have left, and how large one file can be (100 downloads, 1 GB and 100 MB per file by default). Downloads also count towards the File manager storage. Drafts count, the trash doesn't. If you drop more files than fit, the CMS uploads them one by one up to the maximum and then stops, with the message Maximum reached and which files were not uploaded. Need more? Contact Windkracht.

No Downloads in your menu?

Downloads are not included by default. Your website also needs to be able to show them. Contact Windkracht if you want to use them.