how to force a pdf download automatically?

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    deltatrada · Member ·

    is there any way to force the user’s download-manager to start a download for .PDF instead of showing the .PDF in a new window/tab?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    That is not possible, no.

    There is a html attribute, download that one can add to the a tag for a link that normally forces this, but that doesn’t work on WordPress.com because of the difference between your site’s URL (example.wordpress.com) and the file’s URL in the media library (example.files.wordpress.com).

    When such a difference exists, browsers block forced downloads as a security precaution, and currently we’re not able to get around that.

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