LeggsRobbins
Member
Posted 3 years ago #
I am patently new to this, so I apologize for the inanity of this question:
I uploaded an Excel file to my wordpress blog, assuming that it would appear somewhere on the blog page so that viewers could download the file. It did not, and I cannot find it anywhere.
I have two relevant questions:
1. Am I misunderstanding the purpose of uploading a file? What actually happens when you do that?
2. How can I achieve what I was trying to do: in other words, place a file on my blog so that others can download it?
cwolverton
Member
Posted 3 years ago #
No, you aren't misunderstanding the purpose, you just have to do one more thing to make a link to the file you upload. When you upload a file, it is placed in a new folder inside your installation of Wordpress. The path looks like BLOGHOME/wp-content/uploads/YEAR/MONTH/. After the file is uploaded, you will notice either a thumbnail image (if possible) or a link to your file in the box below the edit window, where you chose the file to upload. For an Excel file, you will see a blue hyperlink. Just click and drag that link into the editing window and that will copy the address of the file. Use that URL to make a hyperlink, like:
<a href="http://whatever_URL_was_copied_when_you_dragged">Clickable text</a>
