dustsigns

Interesting. In a vanilla installation with the default theme, I cannot upload any PDFs at all. I was not aware that they are not allowed by default. I do not remember installing any plugins specifically for PDFs, but it seems one of them enables their upload. How can I find out which one it is? I have only a small number of plugins, none of which seems to specifically enable PDF uploads:

• Broken Link Checker 1.11.12
• Disable Comments 1.10.2
• Disable REST API 1.5
• Enable Media Replace 3.3.11
• Gallery-Buddy 0.2.9
• WPvidid Backup Plugin 0.9.38

The only one that could maybe be related to the issue and the PDF upload in general is Enable Media Replace, but I cannot find any explicit mention of it changing which types of files I can upload. How can I proceed from here to isolate to issue?

I click “Add media”, upload a PDF file and choose “Insert into page”, which creates a link to that PDF that I just uploaded.

To clarify: I am trying to insert a link to a file, not an image. I know that HTML ignores spaces in both cases, which is exactly why I find WordPress’ behavior so counter-intuitive.

If WordPress cleaned up arbitrarily many spaces, I would understand. If it did not clean them up at all, I would also understand. But always removing exactly one space (even if there is only one!) is counter-intuitive, especially in a WYSIWYG editor.

Using the new editor is currently not an option for me because I have a ton of old pages which are just classic blocks. From time to time, I need to amend them in the way I described above, where I encounter this behavior a lot.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by dustsigns.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by dustsigns.

Hi @tonyrobins,

I am not aware of any page builders (I set up the installation myself some time ago and am only adding new pages and files, nothing fancy). The theme I use is Twenty Twelve version 3.1.

Kind regards

Hi @tonyrobins,

Thanks for your reply.
Regarding 1., the PHP versions are “not much different”, I would say. The source version is 7.3.14, the target version is 7.2.28-he.0 (Host Europe is the target provider, which is what I suppose the -he suffix stands for).
Regarding 2., I am not using any cache or firewall plugins.
Regarding 3., I changed this setting, but the result is the same, unfortunately.

Here is a list of plugins that I use:

• Broken Link Checker 1.11.12
• Disable Comments 1.10.2
• Disable REST API 1.5
• Enable Media Replace 3.3.11
• Gallery-Buddy 0.2.9
• WPUpdates Notifier 1.6.0 (deactivated)
• WPvivid Backup Plugin 0.9.37