Nonprofit WordPress

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A Free Manual for Nonprofits

  • About
  • Search
  • WordPress Basics
    • What is WordPress?
    • Creating Content
  • Types of Content
    • Pages
    • Posts
    • Media Items
  • Content Management Basics
    • Write for the Web
    • The Perils of Poor Formatting
    • Help People with Disabilities
    • Linking to External Sites
    • Linking Within Your Site
    • Adding Images
    • Adding Documents
    • Adding Videos
  • Content Management Mastery
    • Editor Tips and Tricks
    • Linking to Email Addresses
    • Linking Within a Page
    • Redirecting Links
  • Administering Your Site
    • The Admin Bar
    • Managing Users
    • Managing Menus
    • Backing Up the Site
    • Updating Your Software

Adding Documents

Adding documents to your site is very similar to adding images.

You can upload them directly from within the page editor, and you can manage them all together in the Media Library.

If you want to link to a PDF, Microsoft Word document, or other document, follow these steps:

  1. Place the cursor where you’d like to add a link to the document, then click the Add Media button:
    page editor - ready to add PDF hyperlink
  2. On the Insert Media form find an existing document from the Media Library tab, or upload a new one from the Upload Files tab:
    page editor - media library tab
  3. Before clicking Insert into page supply a few attachment details:
    • Title: the text you’re like for your hyperlink; in this example, “2015 Annual Report”
    • Link To: choose Media File since we want this link to open the media file (the document).
  4. All done! Click Insert into page and then save your changes by clicking Publish or Update:
    page editor - PDF hyperlink added

 

Creative Commons License
Nonprofit WordPress by Andrew Giesler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://nonprofitwordpress.info.