As it happens, I was testing PDF files today and I discovered that, if you upload a PDF via WordPress into the Media Library for a Page, it will not be displayed in a [gallery].
Of course, a simpler approach would be use FTP to upload a PDF file to the root of your web site.
Either way, the PDF has a URL that you can use in your e-mail but won’t be in a menu or anywhere else (visible) within WordPress.
wow thank you! If I was to load it up into my ftp files, which folder would I put it in? (sorry newbie!!)
Depends on your host, but (if it exists) /public_html/ is usually the root, giving a url like http://www.site.com/abc.pdf
great thank you both so much. One more (dumb) question – would the link to that page be what I name it when I up load it?
Just covering all bases!
If you use your FTP client you can name it whatever you want before you upload it.
You can even put it in a sub directory if you want, you just have to create the directory if it doesn’t already exist.
Your URL might be http://www.yoursite.com/course-outline/course.pdf
Your link to it might be Your Course
This file and the link to it will only exist on your local machine where you created it, on your server in whatever directory you put it in, and the only access to it your users will have is through your email link.
Ahhh thank you so much! Will give it a go now and see what happens! Fingers and toes crossed!
Or you could create a password protected page…
thanks guys that worked perfectly!
