Improves WP FileTrace resilience during high-volume download campaigns and automated link scanning.
- Moves download counting behind browser confirmation instead of the initial tracked-link request.
- Prevents basic email/security link scanners and HEAD requests from being counted as downloads.
- Replaces the full WordPress frontend handoff with a lightweight standalone download page.
- Prevents unrelated theme and plugin assets from loading during the handoff.
- Sends confirmed downloads directly to the target file without the normal retry round trip.
- Keeps legacy retry behavior available for backwards compatibility.
- Ensures tracking failures do not prevent visitors from reaching their download.
- Improves handling of large bursts of simultaneous tracked-link requests.