Title: Media uploads
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Media uploads

 *  [rwhalls](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rwhalls/)
 * (@rwhalls)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-uploads-7/)
 * Below is the code in a post: This first one is what is now showing up which does
   not work. The file is is uploads. The second one was how it used to call up a
   file which works.
 *     ```
       <a>Chrome L Adj</a>
   
       <a href="http://gowd.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NH-Basic-2CRev.docx"
       onClick="ga('send', 'event', 'button', 'click', 'Check List');"><fcb>here,fcb></fcb>
       ```
   

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 *  [Mike Olaski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emjayoh/)
 * (@emjayoh)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-uploads-7/#post-7023389)
 * Hi there,
 * Obviously I can’t say how your old code became your new code, but I assume you’re
   wanting to simply link to a file that you uploaded to your Media?
 * If that’s the case, you’re on the right track.
 * Here’s a basic overview of how Links (anchor tags) work and [how to “markup” your content to insert a link](http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp).
 * Your new code is missing the attribute “href” which uses the url to the file 
   you want to link to.
 * The old code, while working is rather awkward as it has some extra Javascript
   code that I am sure is unnessary, aas well as the “Anchor Text” (the words you
   want your link placed on) is currently “here,fcb”, which would seem to be not
   intentional. There’s also some random <fcb> tag in there.
 * To simplify your code you’d want something like this:
 * `<a href="http://gowd.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NH-Basic-2CRev.docx">Click
   here for the file</a>`
 * That’s if you’re editing in the Text editor of WordPress.
 * Using the visual editor, you can select any words you want to place the link 
   onto, and
    paste in the URL of the file you want to link to.
 * [http://gowd.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NH-Basic-2CRev.docx](http://gowd.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NH-Basic-2CRev.docx)
 * If you don’t know the URL of the file, go to your media manager directly or by
   clicking the Add Media button on the post edit screen, find the file you want
   to link to, select it, and look for the field labeled “URL”. Select the entire
   string in that field box because that’s the direct URL to your file. You can 
   now use that to paste into the URL field when adding a link, or within the href
   attribute when editing code.
 * Cheers,
 * Mike
 *  Thread Starter [rwhalls](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rwhalls/)
 * (@rwhalls)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-uploads-7/#post-7023404)
 * Could you go to my site gowd.us and look at a post “Upload New Code” in the Recent
   Articles right hand column and upload the doc. You will see that in order to 
   get the file one has to click on CheckList5, then Save and then click the tab
   at the bottom of the page. You can see the code for this in [264].
 * Then go to the center pane and click on here which gets the same doc without 
   having to click on CheckList5. In [260] you can see the code I had to use to 
   make it work this way.
 * I can’t have authors who include docs in their posts have to go an change code.
 *  [Mike Olaski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emjayoh/)
 * (@emjayoh)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-uploads-7/#post-7023411)
 * Hi,
 * Can you help me clarify your problem.
 * I understand you simply need help with the process of uploading a file to your
   WordPress site so that it can be added as a clickable download link in the body
   of a page or post?
 * It would seem you’ve found a way, but it’s not working well, and maybe it’s too
   complicated for your authors to follow.
 * Is this correct?
 * Mike

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mike Olaski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emjayoh/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-uploads-7/#post-7023411)
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