Did you know that you can easily and quickly provide PDFs on your website for your readers to download? That’s right, you don’t have to use a third party service to upload and share PDFs. If the PDF is really big, you may need to use a service like Google Drive or Dropbox to store your file. Just keep that in mind before you proceed.
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How to Provide PDFs on Your Website through A Hyperlink
- Go to the page or post where the link to your document will be added.
- Place your cursor where you want the link to the pdf to show
- Click the “Add Media” button
- Click “Select Files” or drag your PDF file into the upload box.
- Once your PDF is uploaded you can enter the title you want to show in the “title’ box.
- Under attachment display settings choose “Link To Media File”. This will link your file to the title you entered.
- Click the “Insert into Post” button
- Your PDF will be hyperlinked to the title you created.
How to Provide PDFs on Your Website through an Image
- Create an image of your PDF. You can do this by taking a screenshot of it and cropping it.
- Click the “Add Media” button
- Click “Select Files” or drag your PDF file into the upload box.
- Now, drag the image you created to the media file
- Click on the PDF in your media library
- Locate the “URL” box and copy the URL
- Add the image you created to your post/page
- Click on the image and select the hyperlink tool
- Paste the PDF’s “URL” that you copied into the box
- Don’t forget to hit update.
How large is ” to large” for adding a PDF?
Hi Jan,
I probably wouldn’t go any larger than about a megabyte. If it’s any larger than that, you can use something like Dropbox to store the file.