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Upload & Link to a PDF in WordPress

August 3rd, 2015

Lots of churches still produce a print newsletter or flyers for events, and might want to create a link to download these PDF’s from their websites.

Step 1: Create a PDF

savepdfIf your original document is is Microsoft Word or Publisher, you can easily save this as a PDF.  Look directly under the box for entering the file name, and there is a drop-down that lets you change the file type; one option is PDF.

Be sure to choose the options for “Minimum Size” for publishing on the web.  Remember where you saved the document.

There are also a number of “print to PDF” applications like this one, that will let you choose to create a PDF through “printing” the document from any application.  These options may not let you choose a minimized file size, and if you have a lot of graphics or images in your document, then your PDF may be large for uploading and downloading.

Step 2: Select your link text

Highlight with your cursor the text that you will make into the link.

Step 3: Upload your PDF

On the WordPress dashboard, look for the “Add Media” button, located right above the Bold & Italics buttons.  Click this button, and then click the link “Upload Files”.  You can either drag & drop your file in the uploader or click on “Select Files”, and get your PDF uploaded.

Step 4: Select & copy the URL of the uploaded file

On the right side of the media uploader, look toward the bottom of the gray box for a URL for the uploaded file.  Depending on how you uploaded your PDF, this link may be automatically highlighted, or you may need to select the link.  If you need to select it, put your cursor in the link, and then right-click and choose “Select all” to make sure you get the whole link highlighted.  Then copy this link to your clipboard, using either a Ctrl + C, or right-click + Copy.

Then– and this is counter-intuitive — do NOT click the “Insert into Post” button, but instead, click the X in the upper right corner to close the media uploader.

Step 5: Create the link

linkiconThat URL is still on your clipboard.  Closing the media uploader will take you back to your post or page.  The text that you will be making into a link should still be highlighted, but you can always highlight it again.  Now just create a link like you normally would, looking for the chain icon in the top row.  (Click on the icon, paste in your link, click “Add Link”.)

After you publish or update the post/page, you should have a link to your PDF.  How this link behaves will depend on how the user has set up their browser to handle PDFs– it may download the file or it may open the PDF– you have no control over these options.

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Find & Fix Broken Links

June 22nd, 2015

chainYour site might get lower search engine (Google) rankings — that is, appear lower in search engine results — if your site has broken links in it.  Broken links are when a link on your site (which probably worked when you first created it) no longer works, and displays an error or “page not found” message.

This might happen if you linked to a page of another site, which subsequently took down that page of their site, or changed the URL of that page.  It frequently happens for our clients when they remove old PDFs and images from the Media Library without removing the links in posts or pages to those media files. (Remember, when you insert an image, you are creating a link to that media file.)

To find broken links on your site, use this free online Broken Link Checker.

Once you have identified the broken links, then the next step is to fix them by either updating to the new URL (if there is one) or removing the broken link.

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Create a Link in Google Calendar

November 10th, 2014

gcal iconIf you are using your blog for a news feed, you might want to put a link back to a post promoting an event in the Description field of the event in Google Calendar.  Here’s two ways to do that:

1. Use a dummy page

If anything remotely associated with website codes gives you the heebie-jeebies, then you can use your WordPress site to create the code for you.  Simply open a page for editing (I like to use pages, rather than posts, since if accidentally published, a page won’t automatically appear on your site), and create the text you need in the Visual editor tab.  Remember to use ONLY text and a link, no images.  The length is limited, so you want to get this in around 150 characters.

When you have created your link, and are ready to move to the Calendar, switch to the “Text” tab at the top right of the content editing area.  This tab will display all the code for the content you just created.  Copy all the code there, and paste into the description box in Google Calendar.

The link will not display inside Google Calendar when you are logged in (it will show the code), but it will display in the description area on the calendar embedded in your website.

OR

2. Write the link code

The code for creating a hyperlink is not difficult.  It’s just a matter of learning the pattern and syntax.  Here are the parts of a hyperlink:

<a href=”http://mysite.org”>Link Text</a>

  • The link opens and closes with an “anchor tag”: <a>… </a>
  • The text you want to appear on the page as linked text goes in between these two tags
  • The opening anchor tag has the type of link “href”
  • The href is “=” to the url where you want to send the user, and the url is put into quote marks
  • Any text outside of the anchor tags is displayed as regular text

The whole code you put in the description box might be:

For more info, see <a href=”http:churchwebsiteprogram.com/pancake-breakfast/”>Pancake Breakfast, Nov 16</a>

Which will display like this:  For more info, see Pancake Breakfast, Nov 16

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