Whitepaper plugin for Craft CMS 4.x

Let your users download whitepapers (or other files), but not before leaving their email address.

The plugin also provides a Field Type, to link a whitepaper to an entry and it provides CSV exports per whitepaper as well!

Screenshots

Frontend (example implementation)

The above is an example of an implementation of this plugin

Admin

Overview

Detail

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 4.0.0 or later

Installation

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require timvermaercke/craft-whitepaper
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Test.

Brought to you by Tim Vermaercke

How to use

Create a Whitepaper object in /admin/whitepapers first.

Then you can add the following snippet to your templates:

<form action="/actions/whitepapers/public/download-whitepaper" method="post">
    {{ csrfInput() }}
    {{ hiddenInput('whitepaperId', 1) }}

    <label for="email">Email</label>
    <input type="email" id="email" name="email" />

    <input type="submit" value="Download" />
</form>

You can also create a field in Craft and use the custom field "Whitepaper", eg. in a Globals Set:

Create a field:

Create a globals set

Fill out the globals set:

Use the value in your templates:

{# will output the selected whitepaper id #}
{{ settings.fieldWhitepaper }}