Problem with file attachment URLs

derekbambauer · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 5:19 pm
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Hi – my blog suddenly stopped allowing users to download files. When I create the attachment (Add Media), the HTML for the file looks fine, but clicking the link simply takes one to a static page with the file attachment title. Has anyone experienced this? Any ideas? Thanks much!

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thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 5:30 pm
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Can we have a link to where this is happening?
educativpgm · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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I have the same problem!
Maybe “thesacredpath” can help us! :)

http://www.educativpgm.wordpress.com

paula mihai
thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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Paula, can you give us a link to a place on your blog where the is happening so that we can look at it?
educativpgm · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 6:38 pm
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http://educativpgm.wordpress.com/oferte-de-formare-continua/
thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 6:41 pm
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Which link in particular. I cannot read the language.
thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 6:42 pm
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And let’s keep this discussion in one thread so that we are not bouncing back and forth.
bigpblog · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 6:58 pm
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I have the same problem; I am a teacher and ALL my links suddenly lead nowhere!
thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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We need a link to your blog and specific examples of where this is happening. We cannot even guess until we can look at it.
bigpblog · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:12 pm
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OK – try this …

http://bigpblog.wordpress.com/

Try the HOMEWORK page or the MATHS page; each has lots of links to downloadable WORD files; these links take you to another window, but the actual clickable links for the documents themselves have disappeared.
thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:16 pm
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On the “maths” pages, were these all Word files?

Mental Maths Test 1
Mental Maths Test 2
Mental Maths Test 3
Mental Maths Test 4
Mental Maths Test 5
bigpblog · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:18 pm
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Yes
bigpblog · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:19 pm
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They are still there in my library, although I cannot locate their URL address anywhere
thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:20 pm
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OK, this is beyond the volunteers here in the forums. Contact staff directly and make sure and let them know that the above links on the maths page used to link to Word documents.

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hillelstoler · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:25 pm
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Go to your media library and select a file, there are three buttons there (under “Link URL”:

None, Post URL & File URL

if you want a download link to your file you should use the File URL button.
thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:32 pm
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@hillelstoler, the math links above on bigpblog were originally linked to .doc files and working. Now they are not. Something happened in the backend of wordpress.
bigpblog · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:34 pm
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Ummm … no.
WHen I hover over a file I get EDIT/DELETE/VIEW and if I select the file I get Title, Caption and Description – none of the buttons that you suggest.
thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:36 pm
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If you go to media library from within a post, then you can click on the “show” button for the document and find what hillelstoler mentions.
thesacredpath · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:40 pm
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I should have adde if you go to the media library from within a page also.

Another thing that is important, is that when you name the files, make sure they have an extension at the end of the filename (.doc)
bigpblog · Member · Feb 5, 2009 at 7:40 pm
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HI sacredpath – yes, I know about that, but I think that’s the problem – I can’t get the blog to SHOW any docs, so I can’t see the URL details or anything like that. All I can get is what I have listed above.

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