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Distribute Digital Downloads with Joomla!

Sell or share files, templates, music, art, or any downloadable content with ease.
Project Objectives
Project Kit

Project Objective

This blueprint gives you complete control over distributing digital content. Whether it's free resources or paid digital products, you'll protect your work, customize access, and manage transactions on your terms. A beautiful front-end with powerful categorization tools means your audience finds what they need—fast.

Earn From Creative Work

Monetize templates, music, art, and more. Whether you're selling once or on repeat, you maintain control and earn on your terms.

Control the User Experience

Customize every step—from product presentation to checkout—to match your brand and guide visitors to action.

Organize With Ease

Built-in tools help prevent unauthorized downloads, giving you peace of mind as you distribute your work.

Organize With Ease

Use structured categories and tags to help users quickly find what they’re looking for, even with a large product library.

Connect With Your Audience

Pair downloads with discussion and support tools to build community and loyalty around your digital content.

What You’ll Build

  1. Launch a Content Distribution Site
  2. Create a Digital Product Catalog
  3. Customize Display with DocMan and YOOtheme
  4. Accept Secure Payments
  5. Add Support for Digital Product Buyers
  6. Back Up Files and Product Data Regularly

Project Kit

The Project Kit gives you a complete list of the open-source apps, essential plugins, and helpful services required to build your chosen project. No guesswork—just the tools you need, curated and ready to go.

Setup

Use SiteGround to host a fast, secure Joomla-based store that supports downloads of all sizes.

Core

YOOtheme ensures a sleek, responsive design. DocMan provides the core file management system your download platform needs, giving you total control over how documents are organized, displayed, and accessed.

Utilities

YOOtheme Pro Essentials enhances layout flexibility and design capabilities inside the YOOtheme builder. Akeeba Backup ensures your product and order data are safely stored and easily restorable. JP CS DocMan and JP CS DocMan Lists give you full visual control to feature individual documents and create dynamic, filterable download lists directly within your YOOtheme layouts.

Add-Ons

Add Stripe and PayPal for secure payments. EasyDiscuss gives buyers a way to ask questions or get help after purchase.

Training

Short Course

Short Courses are focused lessons designed to help you master a single tool, skill, or concept fast. This Blueprint links to Short Courses that teach individual tools or steps quickly and clearly—so you can keep building with confidence.