• I have a hosted WordPress site that I have uploaded an mp3 file to using FTP and it doesnt show up in manage>uploads from WordPress. All I see are some PDF’s uploaded earlier. I want to create a link to the mp3 from a post but not sure how to do this. I even tried creating a hyperlink directly to the folder/mp3 and it doesnt work.

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  • > I have uploaded an mp3 file to using FTP and it doesnt show up in manage>uploads

    That’s correct. It wouldn’t, since you didn’t use the WordPress internal uploader. Just figure out where you uploaded it via FTP, and link to it there.

    > I even tried creating a hyperlink directly to the folder/mp3 and it doesnt work.

    For something like this, you need to link to a file, not a folder.

    Hm. I may have misunderstood what you wrote.

    If your mp3 is here: site.com/folder/somesong.mp3
    then link to it there:
    [audio src="http://site.com/folder/somesong.mp3" /]

    Thread Starter foundryx

    (@foundryx)

    Thanks DianeV!
    I had tried that a couple of times but it wouldnt work. Of course after I posted and you replied I tried your suggestion and of course it worked 1st time. DoH! I am curious is it faster to use the upload to add files for that or use the FTP and link from there? This was about a 13Mb MP3

    hi there. i have I think may be the same problem with linking to files.

    The files fail to download and you get 404 error if you click on them. But if I right click and save file as it works fine.

    I am assuming it is a wordpress thing because joomla works fine when we try the same thing.

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