In a nutshell:
- Upload the PDF to the Media Library
- Attach the PDF
- Edit the page and, when inserting the link, copy in the PDF’s ‘File URL’ not the Permalink or the File Name.
Detailed steps
- Media
- Add New
- Media Library – check that your uploaded PDF is there. It will be Unattached.
- Attach (the Attach step does not always seem to be necessary)
- Search for the page to which you wish to attach the PDF, tick, Select
- You will be returned to the Media Library, with the PDF now ‘attached’
- Mouse over the name of the PDF, hit Edit
- Copy (Ctrl c) the File URL. Not the Permalink or the File Name. The File URL should contain the text ‘uploads’ somewhere in its name.
- Find the page to which you wish to attach the PDF (e.g. via Canberra Bushwalking Club > Visit Site)
- Edit Page
- Find the words on the page that will form the link e.g. ‘Risk form’; highlight the words and insert the link (link icon or Ctrl-K)
- Copy in (Ctrl-V) the file URL
- Hit the arrow to ‘apply’
- Save and Exit
- Update
- View Page to check that the link works
