Title: Downloadable Permalinks Last modified: February 8, 2022 --- # Downloadable Permalinks * Resolved [ghostofheros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghostofheros/) * (@ghostofheros) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downloadable-permalinks/) * After uploading files to my WordPress media library there are two links showing: 1- Permalinks (which is nice and short) 2- File URL (which is tall and not nice at all!) * I used to send permalinks of PDFs/Zipped files to my customers and on clicking on the permalinks the files start downloading directly, then after a WordPress update the links now open a webpage first, many of my customers get confused how could I make the links start downloading directly as it was before that? * ex: [https://www.advancewatertreatment.com/series-2000wp-3000wp-8000wp-gas-feeders/](https://www.advancewatertreatment.com/series-2000wp-3000wp-8000wp-gas-feeders/) - This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/). Reason: moved to fixing wordpress * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdownloadable-permalinks%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [Madhu Dollu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madhudollu/) * (@madhudollu) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downloadable-permalinks/#post-15340998) * Hello [@ghostofheros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghostofheros/) * Can you help me with the previous and current versions of WordPress? * [Smit Rathod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smit08/) * (@smit08) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downloadable-permalinks/#post-15341012) * hi [@ghostofheros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghostofheros/), you need to add the download attribute in the anchor tag. I noticed there is no download attribute, so you need to add the download attribute in that anchor link by code or by “edit as HTML” option in the editor. * Thank you. - This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by [Smit Rathod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smit08/). - This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by [Smit Rathod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smit08/). * Thread Starter [ghostofheros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghostofheros/) * (@ghostofheros) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downloadable-permalinks/#post-15341168) * Thanks for your reply * WordPress Version is the latest one 5.9, before update it was the one before it * I tried to deactivate all plugins also but the permalinks still open the webpage * Thread Starter [ghostofheros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghostofheros/) * (@ghostofheros) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downloadable-permalinks/#post-15341182) * [@smit08](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smit08/) Thanks for your reply * kindly could you explain more how could I do that * unfortunately, I don’t know coding. * Note: Before that, I used to upload files to my WordPress media library and then sent the permalinks directly without doing any extra steps and the download was working fine - This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by [ghostofheros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghostofheros/). * [Smit Rathod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smit08/) * (@smit08) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downloadable-permalinks/#post-15344782) * hi [@ghostofheros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghostofheros/) * First of all sorry for the late reply. I have created one video for your explanation in which I have explained the steps to create a downloadable link. * Video link: [https://www.loom.com/share/f98acd77f10640729f14fde3b5843e3b](https://www.loom.com/share/f98acd77f10640729f14fde3b5843e3b) * As you can see on this video I have just added the download attribute in anchor tag. like eg: `Download link text` * Thank you. - This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by [Smit Rathod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smit08/). - This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by [Smit Rathod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smit08/). * Thread Starter [ghostofheros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghostofheros/) * (@ghostofheros) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downloadable-permalinks/#post-15345768) * Thanks A lot [@smit08](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smit08/) for your reply and effort * [Smit Rathod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smit08/) * (@smit08) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downloadable-permalinks/#post-15345798) * Your welcome [@ghostofheros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghostofheros/) * Now please update the status of this support ticket as solved. It is on the right side sidebar on the page. So that community people will close this support ticket. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Downloadable Permalinks’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [download links](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/download-links/) * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Smit Rathod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smit08/) * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/downloadable-permalinks/#post-15345798) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics