I run a small website for my bakery and want visitors to click a link and download a PDF of our menu. I’ve got the PDF saved on my computer but have no idea how to turn it into a link people can click, can anyone help?
Upload the PDF to your website’s media or file library, then copy the file URL it gives you. Edit the menu button or text link, paste that URL, and publish the page. On WordPress this is under Media, while most site builders have a similar upload option. It may open in the browser instead of downloading, but visitors can still save it from there.
Good news, this needs zero special software. If your site is WordPress, upload the PDF under Media, then link whatever text you want to that file’s URL. On plain hosting, use the file manager to upload it and link the file directly, though it’ll probaly just open in a tab. What did you build the site with?
First you’ll need to upload the menu PDF to wherever your website files live, then copy the file’s address and use that as the link behind text like “Download our menu.” Most website editors have an Add Link button for this. Before uploading, I’d open it in PDFcap and make sure it displays cleanly on phones and is small enough to download quickly.
First upload the PDF to your site, most website builders have a file or media section where you can do that, then copy the address it gives you and link to it like any other page. Worth knowing that browsers open PDFs in a tab by default instead of downloading them. If you want a proper download, add the word download inside the link tag, like .