Easy Digital Downloads – Variable Pricing Descriptions

November 02, 2022

Easy Digital Downloads – Variable Pricing Descriptions Plugin

Provide detailed descriptions to customers for your variations when using variable prices with Easy Digital Downloads.

Easy Digital Downloads – Variable Pricing Descriptions adds an “Option Description” field for each variable-priced download. This allows you to add a longer description to the option name if needed.

Where do descriptions show?

By default descriptions will show on the purchase button, where users can add items to their cart.

Additionally, you can choose to show the descriptions on the checkout and receipt pages.

Styling

Variable Pricing Descriptions does not include any custom CSS, so it doesn’t impact your page speed and should work with any theme! If you wish to cusotmize the look and feel of the descriptions, you can use the included edd-variable-pricing-desc class to target the descriptions.

Why sell product variations?

Selling digital product variations is a powerful tool for any digial e-commerce store. Control what files are delivered depending on what variation is purchased, and reward your high paying customers. Some variation examples are:
* Selling photos at multiple resolutions.
* Distributing single music files or a full album
* Limit your WordPress Plugin activations with Software Licensing
* Sell font packages

Requirements

This plugin requires Easy Digital Downloads version 2.8 or greater.

Screenshot Theme

All screenshots were taken using the Vendd theme, our own theme custom built to work with Easy Digital Downloads.

Installation

  1. Upload entire edd-variable-pricing-descriptions to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or just upload the ZIP package via ‘Plugins > Add New > Upload’ in your WP Admin
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Add optional descriptions to your variable priced downloads

Screenshots

  1. The "Option Description" input fields

    The "Option Description" input fields

  2. The pricing descriptions shown to the user

    The pricing descriptions shown to the user

  3. Showing the pricing descriptions on the checkout

    Showing the pricing descriptions on the checkout

  4. Showing the pricing descriptions on the purchase receipt

    Showing the pricing descriptions on the purchase receipt

Changelog

1.1

  • New: Optionally display price option description on checkout and receipts.
  • Fix: If a description was empty, an empty paragraph was output anyway.
  • Fix: The extension has been updated to work with EDD 3.1.
  • Dev: The minimum WordPress version is now 4.9; the minimum EDD version is 2.8.

1.0.3

  • Tweak: Update plugin information

1.0.2

  • Fix: Undefined Index PHP Notice
  • New: Modified the way descriptions are outputted to better future-proof them

1.0.1

  • Fix: Undefined Index PHP Notice

1.0

  • Initial release

Details

  • Version: 1.1
  • Active installations: 300
  • WordPress Version: 4.9
  • Tested up to: 6.1.7

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