Trying to add a link to a file that is on my site

  • Resolved luceylin

    (@luceylin)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    I have a short “teaser’ on my blog page, and I want a link at the end for the entire article. I have done this when I am linking to another page on my site, but in this case I have just stored the article in the “WP-content” folder, and it does not show anywhere on the site. Any thoughts on why my link might not be working. He is my link URL:

    wordpress/wp-content/Law and Technology.htm

    I see the uploaded file there so I don’t understand why it is not appearing when I click the link to read the article.

    Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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  • The ‘read more’ link can only point to posts that exist in your database. If you want the link to point to what is, essentially, an external page, you’ll need to hard code the full link into the teaser content.

    Thread Starter luceylin

    (@luceylin)

    Don’t know if it makes a difference, but I was not using “read more”, just a regular link. I am not clear on what the full link address is, though. I have a folder called ‘Articles’ sitting under ‘/public_html’–so what would the full address be? Right now I have ‘https://www.paullucey.com/Articles/Suskind.pdf’. Is that not the correct link address?

    That’s fine as a link url.

    Thread Starter luceylin

    (@luceylin)

    But it does not seem to work……it does not bring me to the article–just keeps me on the same page.
    Any other thoughts?

    Are you setting the file as a “Link” or is it just listed on the page – it should be highlighted and underlined on most themes if it is a link.

    To set a link use the icon on the top row of the editor that has a picture of chain links on it – click on that after highlighting the text you want to use as a label and paste in the file address you want to link to.

    The URL above in your post opened a PDF document about some legal stuff when I put it in my browser – so the address is good.

    Thread Starter luceylin

    (@luceylin)

    Got it now. I did have it as a link but there was another issue which I resolved. Don’t understand it but it is fixed. Thanks

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