Linking to a File

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broadstone
#82220
Dec 4, 2015 at 1:15 am

How do I create a text link that links to a .PDF or .XLS file? I tried to do a link but I can only put in another website page to link to. Ins’t there a way to upload a PDF or .XLS file to my site through the theme panel? I tried uploading through the Media panel but this doesn’t work.

Thanks

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simchris
#82222
Dec 4, 2015 at 1:19 am

You can upload via FTP; create a directory like /assets/ in your root directory.
Put files in there. Might be able to do this via your hosting filemanager panel if you don’t want to do FTP.

Then simply create a normal anchor link with HTML. Lots of tutorials online on how to learn basic HTML.

SO, for example:

<a href="http://yoursite.vvv/assets/name-of-file.pdf">Download my Fancy PDF</a>

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