Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article parts. Related Articles. Article Summary. Part 1. If you have a free WordPress blog, you'll go to "yoursite. A self-hosted WordPress site will have a custom web address that you can login to.
You might need to click Site to see it. It'll be in the vertical menu on the left side of your screen. It's in the top left corner of the "Media" section next to a drop-down arrow. When you click this button, your file manager will pop up. After you've uploaded your PDF to the media library, you can share that link with anyone for them to be able to download it. Part 2. You're probably not going to want to add the link to the posts title, so you'll want to click in the space beneath the title block.
You'll see this plus symbol next to the body of the post and it will open a "Search for a block" menu. Click File. They can also be crawled and ranked by search engines. For this guide, the PDF has already been created and is on your computer. It is straightforward to upload PDF files to WordPress — read my instructions and then use the images below to follow visually. Keep in mind that you can link to a PDF on external websites or even a newsletter such as one created in MailChimp. PDFs are often quite large in file size because they are printable web documents, so creators tend to put design elements into them.
Or use an online PDF compression service like smallpdf. You can then trim it using an image editor. Save that somewhere on your computer. Now take that into an image editor and optimise it as necessary. Click to view my WordPress training course. I'm an SEO website designer who builds custom websites and assists business owners to work towards higher search engine listings. Because I've had such a long career in website design I really know the mechanics of websites and search engines.
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Hi, I would like to use it for growing email list for my website in a way like website visitors will have to provide their name and email address to download a post in pdf. Hello, thank you for this article. Is it work only for English language? Can I fix it somehow? Thank you. Great article. Do you know how this could be done or if there is a plugin that does what I need? Can you please share how to do this for blogger?
Please, please! Thanks for your support WP beginner. Then create a link in the list and paste the pdf url. Why should we have to go to all of that effort simply to have a capability that already existed. Frankly the difficulties in linking to a pdf with the new Gutenberg version of WordPress are completely unacceptable.
I would strongly discourage anyone from using WordPress given the complete insensitivity of WordPress to its users. This is absolutely unacceptable and we will be discontinuing all of their products. I am pissed!! I have an alternative method I use to add media to lists.
I simply create a classic block and do the list there, complete with an add media button. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.
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