Your approach does not provide security. I could hand-craft a cookie named “wordpress_logged_in” (containing any arbitrary value) and have access to your PDF files. You may want to rethink your solution to put a PHP script in between the files and the users. e.g. User Clicks download button PHP Script handles fetching document If authenticated … Read more
just upload it through ftp or your domain hosting panel to your public_html (www) directory. It will be there as a link to www.example.com/myfile.pdf. The case may be that if you have wordpress and installed any security plugins you’ll have to allow the exception within that plugin as well.
I recommend using the plugin Advanced Custom Fields (Very popular plugin). It lets you create fields and manage their values very easily. This way you could just create a new field for file upload and then to pull its information like this- <?php $my_file = get_field(‘my_file’); if( $my_file ) { echo $my_file[‘url’]; echo $my_file[‘alt’]; echo … Read more
This should work assuming your trying to pass the URL to the PDF short code $file= get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘teacher-resume-upload’ ); if ( $file) { foreach ( $file as $attachment_id ) { $full_size = wp_get_attachment_url( $attachment_id ); echo do_shortcode( ‘[pdf]’ . $full_size . ‘[/pdf]’ ); } }
Your website speed totally depends on your server speed. If you have a lot of visitors that are going to open/use those PDF links, then you are going to have a large number of requests, of course. This might result in a slower speed on a shared hosting. The better way is to use a … Read more
Unless you embed the watermark in the PDF itself, people will be able to save or print without the watermark. Visitors savvy enough to know where their cache folder is can just grab the original PDF from there. Adding a watermark to a PDF isn’t a WordPress-specific question, and will require some custom PHP coding … Read more
Google also pulls information from the PDF file itself. To truly fix the files, you’ll need Acrobat Pro. You can then edit the embedded title, and you then delete the original and upload a new one. If these PDFs are associated with specific Posts or Pages, it’s safest to go to that individual Post or … Read more
You can add a custom CSS via the customizer (or via code). Chrome can also show you what your site will look like in print mode (see links at the bottom). Something like the following would generate a nice page for printing: @media print{ #custom-header{ background:#fff; } #custom-header > img, a.scrollup, a.scrollup:visited, .wp-travel-related-posts, #footer-widgets{ display:none … Read more
I found a solution! I hope this helps save some time and frustration for others that might encounter this problem. It turns out that it isn’t WordPress or PHP. After a lot of digging, I came across this discussion by some members of the WordPress Core team: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/48853. It says that there is some kind … Read more
You can accomplish the first part using the Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin. Just set the Request URL to /resume and the Destination URL to /wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Resume-v4.pdf For the second part of your question, you can add a redirect rule to your .htaccess file: Redirect /wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Resume-old.pdf /resume The way you worded your question you actually would set … Read more