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bryanvillarin on "I'm just starting. How do I upload existing documents to my site?"

bryanvillarin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 04:21:10 +0000

In your dashboard while viewing the Edit Post/Page screen, you can click the Add Media button located above the editor.

Alternatively, you can upload supported filetypes by going to Media -> Add New in the left hand menu.

Since you're just starting, I'd also recommend going through Learn WordPress.com to get up to speed with using WordPress.

I hope this helps!

countyhhsplanner on "I'm just starting. How do I upload existing documents to my site?"

countyhhsplanner — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:02:33 +0000

In addition to keeping a web log, I want to provide my readers with technical information. This information is prepared in brief documents I keep on my hard drive. So, how do I upload these documents to my site?

boboloui

timethief on "Adding Documents?"

timethief — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:27:06 +0000

From the support documentation:
You can upload the documents to your WordPress.com blog using the Add Media icon (for images, use the Add an Image icon). For a list of filetypes we support, see Accepted Filetypes. See > http://en.support.wordpress.com/uploading-documents/

Note the Related links on that page as well:
Excel Web App
Google Calendar
Google Docs
Google Maps
Images
LaTeX
Media Library
Memolane Embed
Scribd

auxclass on "Adding Documents?"

auxclass — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:24:16 +0000

"Media" also includes Word & PDF documents:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/media-icons/

Both can be uploaded and then you student can download them once you set a link up in a Post or Page.

colbywolford on "Adding Documents?"

colbywolford — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:21:29 +0000

Hello -

I'm the administrator for englishclubatku.wordpress.com. I would like to post an application that students can download and fill out for membership in a national English honors society. Is this possible? I've only seen links for posting media. If it is possible, how would I do it?

Thank you,

Colby Wolford
Secondary Education: English
Kutztown University

thesacredpath on "Best way to add stories in non-chronological order?"

thesacredpath — Tue, 10 May 2011 08:51:50 +0000

You might want to take a look at this support document which may give you some ideas since what you are doing is going to be similar to writing a book.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/write-a-book/

thesociopathswife on "Best way to add stories in non-chronological order?"

thesociopathswife — Tue, 10 May 2011 07:37:45 +0000

I am writing a blog with stories from my past, but don't know whether to upload stories as Word documents and place them on one page (forcing the reader to open a new document) or to add various new stories as 'pages' (will be hundreds eventually). If I did each one as a blog post, I couldn't re-order them in chronological order. I write them in non-chronological order. Should I put each story on a static page, or maybe I could create a table and place each story in there as they are written? I'm new to blogging, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

thesacredpath on "download documents"

thesacredpath — Thu, 05 May 2011 09:20:42 +0000

No, but you can modify the link so that it opens in a new window. Edit the link and there is a checkbox below the link to have it open in a new window or tab. After checking that, click the save or update button, or whatever it is called. See the image under #3 in the following support document.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/

randyvdp on "download documents"

randyvdp — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:44:38 +0000

Hello

I have a link on my website and when you click it a document will open in the same window as the website.
Is there a tool that starts a pop up, so you can choose to open it in another window or to save it onto your pc?

Thanks in advance

panaghiotisadam on "Problem Opening Documents"

panaghiotisadam — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:37:07 +0000

a) The links you get when you click that category aren't the PDFs, they are the posts in which you have inserted the PDFs.
b) After uploading and before inserting those PDFs, you clicked the "Post URL" option, which is designed for images and produces a so-called attachment page. You should have clicked "File URL".

For one-click access to your PDFs, you can copy their URLs from Media > Library and create links (as well as a link category) for them in Links > Add New. Or you can create links for them in a text widget.

olliuci on "Problem Opening Documents"

olliuci — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:24:11 +0000

I have a Category named 'University Club Forum'. When one clicks this category link, it displays a list of links - two to be exact. Each link is a PDF document that I uploaded. The problem is that it takes three additional clicks before the PDF document actually opens. Is this working as designed, or is this the limitation of the Vigilence theme that I'm using? I administer another blog using the Twenty Ten theme (http://ceclab.wordpress.com) and I don't have this problem. Documents loaded onto the Twenty Ten theme open on the first click. Help.....

Thank You.

Barb Barone, Site Administrator

amrutmanthan on "Uploaded PDF file gets downloaded instead of opening when clicked on the link"

amrutmanthan — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:26:20 +0000

Hello,
As suggested by the Happiness/Support Engineer, I am giving below the old and new file names. Both the names are in Unicode (Script = Devnagari Marathi, Language = Marathi, an Indian language spoken by about 110 million people).
1. OLD FILE NAME = अमृतमंथन_हिंदुस्थानी संगीताची आणि संस्कृतीची लाहोरी शोधकथा_ले० अंजली कीर्तने_101212
2. NEW FILE NAME = अमृतमंथन_लाहोरी शोधकथा_ले० अंजली कीर्तने_101212
Whenever I tried to upload the pdf file with the old name, in the upload dialogue box also it showed file name as just 'pdf'. Thereafter whenever one tried to open the file in the article by clicking on the link in the article, it just downloaded the file without opening it. Later when I noticed the short name 'pdf' in place of the complete name, I suspected that it had to do something with the name. So I tried giving a shorter name, which worked.
You may check out the article at the following link.
http://wp.me/pzBjo-zF
I hope this information would enable you to detect the bug and rectify it. If you need any more information, please do let me know.
Thank you very much.
Warm regards,

amrutmanthan on "Uploaded PDF file gets downloaded instead of opening when clicked on the link"

amrutmanthan — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:43:35 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I have posted the issue with the Support. Let's see what they come back with.

auxclass on "Uploaded PDF file gets downloaded instead of opening when clicked on the link"

auxclass — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:28:47 +0000

If you would please contact Staff with how long long is and the unicode thing it might help the next person and let Staff take a look at the software and address the problem.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

amrutmanthan on "Uploaded PDF file gets downloaded instead of opening when clicked on the link"

amrutmanthan — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:13:47 +0000

Finally I got it !! It worked OK with the same file when I reduced the length of the name of the pdf file. The name was in a unicode based non-English language. So it generally takes more characters of memory storage than English. And when the name itself was long in that language, it must be exceeding the internal character limit set by the wordpress software specs. It worked only when I cut the length of the name short. This can be a bug. You may please experiment and confirm. Thanks to all of you, who spent precious time trying to help me. May God bless you !!

airodyssey on "Uploaded PDF file gets downloaded instead of opening when clicked on the link"

airodyssey — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:35:44 +0000

Understood. But, as thesacredpath said, we cannot help you without the link to the blog and to the page/post in question.

amrutmanthan on "Uploaded PDF file gets downloaded instead of opening when clicked on the link"

amrutmanthan — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:26:56 +0000

But all was well till yesterday when I posted my last article. The pdf linked to it is still getting downloaded properly. However, it is only when I posted a new article today that the problem started. What and how could the settings have changed? I never faced this problem during the last 18 months that I have been working on wordpress.
What is the setting on Adobe that I need to change? And how to change it?

auxclass on "Uploaded PDF file gets downloaded instead of opening when clicked on the link"

auxclass — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:57:12 +0000

There is a setting on Adobe - I have mine set to ask me what I want to do with the file - save to disk or open

thesacredpath on "Uploaded PDF file gets downloaded instead of opening when clicked on the link"

thesacredpath — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:46:06 +0000

We cannot help without a link to the blog and to the page or post where this is happening.

Generally though this is a browser setting. Do you have the adobe reader plugin installed in your browser? Usually if you do, then when you click on the file it will open within the browser using the plugin. They always do for me.

amrutmanthan on "Uploaded PDF file gets downloaded instead of opening when clicked on the link"

amrutmanthan — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:14:40 +0000

I was able to upload the documents properly till yesterday. But today after I upload the pdf document file, save the post and when I open the post and click on the link, the pdf file gets downloaded instead of being opened for reading. What is the problem?
Thanks. Warm regards,

raincoaster on "Can I add downloadable files to my blog?"

raincoaster — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:23:50 +0000

You're welcome. Good luck with the uploading.

tigeress66 on "Can I add downloadable files to my blog?"

tigeress66 — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:37:22 +0000

Thank you so much for your help!

raincoaster on "Can I add downloadable files to my blog?"

raincoaster — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:45:47 +0000

Yes, it's easy. You upload the .doc or .pdf file using your media uploader, just as if it were a picture. Then you copy the link to the file you've just uploaded, highlight some text in your post, like

"Click here to download this file"

hit the link icon, and when the box pops up asking for the URL, you put in the URL of the file. It sounds more complicated than it is.

You can anchor it on text (as above) or add a picture and add the link to the picture. Just remember; the picture has to be uploaded separately, because .doc and .pdf files won't show as images on a WP.com blog.

tigeress66 on "Can I add downloadable files to my blog?"

tigeress66 — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:01:35 +0000

I would like to start a blog for our company and was wondering if it possible to add downloadable pdf files and documents to the page with a link. If so, how do I do that?

thesacredpath on "how to make blog private and let users login with passwd"

thesacredpath — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:00:19 +0000

1) If the blog is set to private, then you are the one to add users. Users will have to sign up for a wordpress.com account (they don't need to get a blog).

2) A forum cannot be added directly, but what a lot of people do is to get a free forum from one of the online services and then link to it from within the blog.

3) You can create links in posts, pages, or in a text widget in the sidebar and then link to those documents at Google.

4) In general, all pages are going to reflect the same theme, but there are a couple themes that have a "no-sidebar" page template (which makes them look different), and with the new twenty ten theme, you can actually have a different header image for each page if you wish.

mcealumninet on "how to make blog private and let users login with passwd"

mcealumninet — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:15:47 +0000

Hi, This is a Non profit blog being run by a few volunteers.

1) Only specific University students must be able to register and have access to the entire blog. This is non-profit so we are trying to do this with wordpress.com. Can we do this (for free) and how?

2) Want to add a forum for discussion. Any pointers on how to include this

3) Want to list documents (Google docs) as links. How to do this.

4) Want to list multiple pages (click on link in main blog page, that should direct you to another fresh page, potentially different theme) - how to do this..

I am a newbie, thanks for your support.

thenovellibrarian on "hot link to pdf file"

thenovellibrarian — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:50:48 +0000

I've been trying to look around more and it seems that what I need to try to do is create an inline hyperlink that will take the click to a pdf file. I just need help with how to do this...

thenovellibrarian on "hot link to pdf file"

thenovellibrarian — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:33:46 +0000

Hello,

I want to be able to click on a word or phrase in my post and have a .pdf or .doc file come up on the computer. I have uploaded the files to the media library, but am unsure how to connect the specific file to a specific word or phrase in my post. Help please?

designsimply on "How can I bulk upload multiple documents??"

designsimply — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:41:48 +0000

So, you can upload them all at once into the Media Library. It's just that when you insert them into a post or page so that people can access them, you will need to insert links to them one at a time. You cannot upload and insert them to different posts all in one step.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/uploading-documents/#from-media-library

vvad on "How can I bulk upload multiple documents??"

vvad — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:29:08 +0000

Thanks for the replies.

Yeh i dont want them all in the same post; i want each file to be in its own post. Are you saying that that is not possible??