Overlapping Pages When Adding Media

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  nomorespanglish · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 9:41 pm

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  Hi,

  I have used the ‘Add Media’ icon to allow a viewer of my blog to click on the name of that document in a post and either Open, Save or Cancel it (the usual ‘Download Files’ dialogue box). Sometimes it works fine and other times a new pages opens with the title of the document and a link to document overlapping the widget column on the left hand side.

  What am I doing wrong?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 9:59 pm

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  You need to make sure you choose “Link to file” when you’re putting it in your blog, rather than “Link to attachment page”.

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  nomorespanglish · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 10:44 pm

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  Where should I see the “Link to file” option?

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  nomorespanglish · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 10:50 pm

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  After I click ‘Add Media’ on the Edit Page, I have to find the file and then click ‘Upload’. Then, when the file is uploaded, I’m promted to ‘Insert into post’.

  I don’t see “Link to file” or “Link to attachment page”.

  ??

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  nomorespanglish · Member · Apr 9, 2012 at 3:03 pm

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  Hello fellow Bloggers,

  This issue is still unresolved – can anyone help me out with this?

  If you follow this link, you will see the problem: http://nomorespanglish.wordpress.com/free-stuff/confusing-words/fun-v-funny-explained-and-exercise-4/

  Many thanks.

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Apr 9, 2012 at 3:18 pm

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  The problem you’ve got there (from how it displays on my monitor anyway) is probably more to do with how you’re posting. Try this: go to your dashboard, scroll down to Settings. Click on ‘Writing’ and where you see “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” check the box then scroll down and click the ‘Save changes’ button.

  If that doesn’t help, try looking in the Support documents area for what Raincoaster was talking about. It’s usually a setting in the edit media page, but it’s a bit longwinded for me to explain here. This page might help:

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

  alternatively, this page (for images, but it’ll probably work similarly for documents) will explain what Raincoaster meant about attachments versus links:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/

  Other than that – you’ll have to wait til someone else comes by who can help more. Nearly everyone here on the forums is a volunteer.

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  nomorespanglish · Member · Apr 9, 2012 at 8:21 pm

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  Hi,

  I tried your first suggestion – no joy, I’m afraid.

  I’m exploring the others now.

  Many thanks:)

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  justpi · Member · Apr 10, 2012 at 1:09 am

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  The easiest way to correct this is delete the content of the page and re-do it.
  For each file, click the Add Media button, click Media Library, click Show, click “File URL“, click “Insert into Post”.

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  nomorespanglish · Member · Apr 10, 2012 at 9:02 am

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  Thank you very much – that works great!