I can upload pdf files to Media Library but can’t insert them in a page

Hi @yapjfq,

WordPress does not embed PDF files in pages like video’s and music, therefore you need to install a PDF viewer. Else it will only be a link to your PDF file which they can see outside of your website.

Once installed you can embed PDF files by adding the shortcode [pdfviewer width="" height=""]https://your-link.com[/pdfviewer]

Hope this helps ya out!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by helldog2018.

Thank you for your advice, but I don’t understand. I think you can go to my page https://tomlines.org.gridhosted.co.uk/banking-and-finance/ and see what I did last week. It contains just this line: “Ten Points for Banking Reform – for Green House, Feb 2012.” Here, “Ten Points for Banking Reform” covers a link to a pdf file in the Media Library, which you can read when you click on it. The rest of the line is text that I added. I got it to work like that last week, but I can’t now.

I don’t want to embed any pdf’s in the sense of putting their actual texts on a page, but to make them accessible from one. I did this last week by clicking on “Insert into page” on the dashboard at the Media Library. If that doesn’t mean putting a link to the file on the page, what does it mean?

It also looks as though I cannot write anything directly on these pages now either, with or without any links to other files. What can the fault be and how can I correct it?

Hi @yapjfq,

Well at first the link to https://tomlines.org.gridhosted.co.uk/category/other-papers/ is an archive where posts are being stored. There the link to https://tomlines.org.gridhosted.co.uk/banking-and-finance/ is an official page. I think the difference is in here.

For that you need to create a normale page and insert the PDF over there <a href="https://your-website.com/your-file.pdf" target="_blank">Tekst to click for PDF file</a>

If you want this on a post, you then need to make sure the post is placed in the correct category.
Hope this helps.

Sorry, I don’t understand those categories. What is the difference between an “official” page and a “normal” page? I thought there were just “pages.”

What I want to create here is in effect an archive of things I have written in the past, which I can upload to the site from my computer. As such it will be static, but I want to be able to add new items to any page as and when I get them published.

According to the navigation menu on my dashboard, the item https://tomlines.org.gridhosted.co.uk/category/other-papers/ is a “category” and all the items that drop down below it are “pages.” Have I set that up in the best way or not?

Tom

Hi @yapjfq,

There is no difference between ‘special’ and ‘normal’ pages but there is a difference between posts and pages.

Pages are single pages while posts are more or less blog messages.
These posts are stored in an archive with a category or period.

Now if you want to have a post to be displayd in your archive it should be added to the category other-papers. Else this ‘archive’ will stay empty because there are no posts connected to this category.

Hope this makes things clear.

Thank you. I know you are trying to help and I am very grateful for it. And I know the difference between posts and pages. However, when I said I wanted to create “in effect an archive” I meant “archive” in the general sense, and not WordPress’ narrow sense of the place where you can find previous posts from the website itself. Sorry if that was confusing.

Under each heading in the relevant part of my menu I want a single page, on which I will write a series of names like the “Ten Points for Banking Reform – for Green House, Feb 2012” that I quoted. Each one will contain a link to a pdf file stored on the website (and located presumably in the Media Library).

Last week I was able to set that up just as I wanted to, but I cannot do so now. That is the problem I am facing. How can I solve it?