[Enhancement] Ability to add 'download links'

[DeeEmm]

I'm using this plugin as a customer support portal, part of which includes downloadable content. At the moment I'm adding the content inline within the document. Clicking on the document link and then clicking on the download link within the document to download the content (for example PDF documntation)

It would be good to link directly to a URL instead of a document. So that when the link is clicked on it serves the downloadable content.

For example - in the admin interface, when adding a section or an article, we can instead add a link, like this...

Where the there is some kind of shortcode with the URL contained in brackets, for example...

My Link Title [mysite.com/mycontent]

Then on the front end it is displayed like this....

And when the links are clicked on, it takes you to the saved URL.

Simples

I think that this is a simple change but will add great power to your extension as it allows it to be used to serve downloadable documentation and files along side the regular documentation.

Of course it is possible to also make a more complex version that utilises the wordpress media library or even seperate additional file downloads manager, but I think that this is not necessary. There are already many download plugins out there that are full of bloat. What is missing is a simply way to serve files alongside documents.

If required (and to be more W3C compliant) additional meta info can also easily be included, for example...

My Doc Title [url="mysite.com/mycontent" alt="my content download" class="myCustomCssClass"]

All of this is easily translatable into standard HTML / CSS which allows it to easily adopt the standard theme / template style being used.

/DM