Public link needed for pdf document stored in media library

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  helenhigginscoaching · Member · Jul 14, 2023 at 5:51 am

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  I need a URL link to a pdf document that’s stored in my media library, that I can give to subscribers. When I go into the document and hit ‘edit’, there is a URL link shown there, but if I give that link to anyone apart from me, it comes up with a message ‘access denied’.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Jul 14, 2023 at 9:12 pm

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  Hi there,

  Please make sure that your site is set to Public in the privacy settings:
  https://wordpress.com/support/settings/privacy-settings/

  Otherwise when it’s set to Coming Soon or Private it will not show content to folks who are not logged in admins or other authorized users.

  If that still doesn’t work, please share the link you’re testing with and we’ll give it a try on our end! :)

  Thanks!

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  helenhigginscoaching · Member · Jul 16, 2023 at 5:01 am

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  Thank you so much for this! Yes, that was the problem. I think I’ve fixed it, but would you mind testing the link, which is below?

  Click to access lm-the-perfect-script.pdf

  Many thanks.

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Jul 16, 2023 at 8:06 am

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  Hi there,

  It looks like the link is working perfectly :)

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  helenhigginscoaching · Member · Jul 16, 2023 at 11:36 am

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  Wonderful! Thank you so much.