Free version and Pro version
Fileshelf comes as a Free version and a Pro version. The Free version is a complete product: everything this handbook describes without the note “(Pro)” belongs to it. The Pro version contains the whole Free version and adds plugins of its own.
What the Pro version adds
- Download statistics per day and per download, without storing IP addresses, with export.
- Versions and expiry date: earlier files stay available, downloads can expire.
- Links and download by e-mail: once and expiring links, downloads after a confirmed address.
- Download limits per user group, category or download.
- Notifications: subscriptions to new versions, reports about downloads.
- Privacy: access and erasure through Joomla's privacy requests, retention periods.
- Memberships with Membership Pro: bind downloads and categories to plans, “My downloads”, welcome mail.
- YOOtheme Pro: dynamic content and an element for download lists.
- JCE editor: downloads in the link dialog, shortcodes through a tab.
- Download all: all downloads of a category as one ZIP archive.
- Upload on the website: uploads by visitors with checking and approval.
- Import: switching from Phoca Download, jDownloads, Dropfiles and the plan documents of Membership Pro with preview, report, redirects and new shortcodes.
Each feature has a page of its own in this manual with “(Pro)” in its title. The Pro version creates three scheduled tasks during installation (retention, notifications, deletion periods).
Which version is installed?
From the Free to the Pro version
- Download the package of the Pro version.
- Install it under System → Install Extensions – simply over the existing Free version. Downloads, files and settings stay.
- Enter your download key under System → Update Sites or at the extension, so that updates of the Pro version arrive.
The Pro version has no licence switch: what is installed keeps running – also after the membership ends. The download key only controls the updates.
Back to the Free version
Install the package of the Free version over the Pro version. The plugins of the Pro version stay installed (Joomla removes no parts on a package update); uninstall them under System → Manage Extensions if you like.