EDD Hide Download for WordPress Plugin Directory
EDD Hide Download is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 7 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
EDD Hide Download is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Andrew Munro / AffiliateWP. With a rating of 5.0★ from 7 reviews.
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EDD Hide Download is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 7 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Andrew Munro / AffiliateWP — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (7) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How EDD Hide Download works
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This plugin requires Easy Digital Downloads.
If you’ve created a custom landing page or purchase funnel, hide the default product page of an Easy Digital Downloads product from users, and redirect them to your funnel. This allows you to optimize your purchase funnel and increase revenue.
EDD Hide Download allows you to:
1. Hide a download so it doesn’t appear on the custom post type archive page, anywhere where the [downloads] shortcode is being used, or any custom query on a page template
1. Prevent direct access to the download product page. The browser will redirect the user to the site’s homepage.
1. Do a combination of hiding the download and preventing direct access to it
This plugin is extremely useful in the following situations:
You’ve created a product landing page and inserted a buy now button to your product. Since the landing page contains all the required product information, you can hide the product on the rest of your site and even prevent direct access to it.
You’ve added a product (eg support package) that shouldn’t sit with your other products you have listed. In this case we can simply hide it from appearing with the other products and insert it where we’d like it to appear using the shortcode.
Filter example
Example filter of how you can change the redirect based on the download ID. Copy this function to your child theme’s functions.php or custom plugin
function sumobi_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect( $url ) { // download has ID of 17 if ( '17' == get_the_ID() ) { $url = 'http://easydigitaldownloads.com'; // redirect user to another external URL }
// download has ID of 15 if( '15' == get_the_ID() ) { $url = get_permalink( '8' ); // redirect to another download which has an ID of 8 }
// return our new URL return $url; } add_filter( 'edd_hide_download_redirect', 'sumobi_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect' );
Example filter of how you can globally change the redirect. Copy this function to your child theme’s functions.php or custom plugin
function sumobi_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect_url( $url ) { $url = get_permalink( '8' ); // redirect to another download, post or page
return $url; } add_filter( 'edd_hide_download_redirect', 'sumobi_custom_edd_hide_download_redirect' );
Get more with Easy Digital Downloads Pro
https://easydigitaldownloads.com/pricing/
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Frequently asked questions
What is EDD Hide Download?
EDD Hide Download is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 7 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Andrew Munro / AffiliateWP.