Adding PDF link to Text Widget

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  vclra · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 8:25 pm

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  I have selected the Adacemica Theme for a WP web site. This theme offers two sidebar Text Widgets. I have uploaded a PDF to my Media Library. I cannot locate the steps to adding a PDF to the text within the Text Widget. There is no Visual/HTML panel that would allow one to add an internal link within this widget.

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  jjberg83 · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 11:23 pm

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  Hi @vclra,

  This are the instructions for how to add a link to your PDF file in you text widget.

  1 – First go to your PDF file in your media library, and copy the text that’s displayed in the url field (I had to press ctrl + a to select all of the text in this field – that would be cmd + a if you’re on a Mac. Then I pressed ctrl (or cmd) + c to copy it.)

  2 – no insert the following code into your text widget:
  Click here to get to my PDF

  Inside the tag, insert the link you just copied between the ” ” marks and save. Go back to your site, refresh, and see if it works.

  Let me know if you have any questions regarding this.

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  jjberg83 · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 11:26 pm

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  Sorry, I can see that the code got stripped out by the editor here in the forum. Let me try again. The code that you would insert in step 2 would be:

  <a href="the link that you just copied goes here">Check out my PDF</a>