If your site uses WordPress Download Manager and you’re thinking of switching to DocVault, Trilobita DocVault Migrator moves your downloads across for you. It’s a free plugin that copies your downloads into Trilobita DocVault, our free document library plugin, and it’s now available on WordPress.org.
It works with WordPress Download Manager on the same site, or on another WordPress install on the same server.
Safe to try
The migrator doesn’t change anything in your old plugin. Files and data are copied, so you can check the result before you switch the old plugin off. It works in three steps:
- Configure: choose the source and where it is installed.
- Preview: a dry run that checks every item and file and explains what will be imported or skipped, and why. Nothing is written.
- Migrate: your downloads are copied in batches, with a progress bar. Afterwards you can download a CSV log.
To start small, the test run option migrates only the first few files first. If you change your mind, one button rolls the migration back: it deletes the documents and files the migration created and tidies up the categories it added. Running the migration twice creates duplicates, so roll back first if you want to run it again.
As with any change like this, back up your site before you migrate.
What moves across
- Title, description and excerpt.
- Files, each registered as the first version of its document in DocVault.
- Categories, recreated with their direct parent category; deeper levels are flattened. Your existing blog categories are never mixed with documents: if a category with the same name already holds blog posts, a separate “(documents)” category is created.
- Tags.
- Download counts.
- Expiry dates.
- Access settings: public, logged-in users only, or specific roles. Role restrictions are migrated and enforced in free DocVault; DocVault Pro is only needed to view or change the roles in the document editor.
Packages with several files can become one document per file, or you can migrate the first file only.
Old links keep working
With DocVault 1.6.0 or later, download links, shortcodes and URLs from WordPress Download Manager point to the migrated documents, without editing any pages.
On an older version of DocVault, the migration still works, and the old links start working once you update DocVault. There’s no need to migrate again.
When you’ve finished, you can delete the migrator. Your documents and the working old links stay.
What isn’t migrated
- Email, password, social and form locks.
- Payment settings, and quota or limit settings.
- Per-download history. The total download count is kept.
Items that use email, password, social or form locks are noted in the log.
File types
DocVault Free accepts PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, ODT, ODS, ODP, RTF, CSV and TXT files. The dry run lists any other file types it finds and says which ones DocVault Pro can add: images, ZIP, AI and EPS. Pro is optional.
Get started
- Install and activate Trilobita DocVault from WordPress.org.
- Install and activate Trilobita DocVault Migrator.
- Go to Documents → Migrate to DocVault and follow the three steps.
The migrator needs WordPress 6.5 or later, PHP 7.4 or later and Trilobita DocVault 1.4.4 or later. Only administrators can use it, and it sends no data to external services.
WordPress Download Manager is a third-party plugin. Trilobita DocVault Migrator is not affiliated with or endorsed by its developers.