Mike Olaski

Hi,

Can you help me clarify your problem.

I understand you simply need help with the process of uploading a file to your WordPress site so that it can be added as a clickable download link in the body of a page or post?

It would seem you’ve found a way, but it’s not working well, and maybe it’s too complicated for your authors to follow.

Is this correct?

Mike

Hi there,

Obviously I can’t say how your old code became your new code, but I assume you’re wanting to simply link to a file that you uploaded to your Media?

If that’s the case, you’re on the right track.

Here’s a basic overview of how Links (anchor tags) work and how to “markup” your content to insert a link.

Your new code is missing the attribute “href” which uses the url to the file you want to link to.

The old code, while working is rather awkward as it has some extra Javascript code that I am sure is unnessary, aas well as the “Anchor Text” (the words you want your link placed on) is currently “here,fcb”, which would seem to be not intentional. There’s also some random <fcb> tag in there.

To simplify your code you’d want something like this:

<a href="http://gowd.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NH-Basic-2CRev.docx">Click here for the file</a>

That’s if you’re editing in the Text editor of WordPress.

Using the visual editor, you can select any words you want to place the link onto, and
paste in the URL of the file you want to link to.

http://gowd.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NH-Basic-2CRev.docx

If you don’t know the URL of the file, go to your media manager directly or by clicking the Add Media button on the post edit screen, find the file you want to link to, select it, and look for the field labeled “URL”. Select the entire string in that field box because that’s the direct URL to your file. You can now use that to paste into the URL field when adding a link, or within the href attribute when editing code.

Cheers,

Mike

Hi Dan,

When evaluating solutions for a problem I need to solve, I always turn to trusty Google:

Try searching:

“Best WordPress Membership Plugins”
“Best WordPress Membership Plugins 2015”
“Best Free WordPress Membership Plugins”
“Best Premium WordPress Membership Plugins”

Look for several of the top results that list these solutions in a list article.

Try to find those that help you understand your specific requirements when making a choice, especially for a problem with as many variables as yours presents.

Make a list of the top 3-5 choices that are present on 3-5 of these lists, and then just try one or two that you feel comfortable with.

There are many, many solutions to Membership on WordPress.

That said, I usually turn to:

• OptimizePress Membership: Because I use OptimizePress to build landing pages and the Membership plugin comes with it free. This is a premium plugin around $100
• Wishlist Member: The first one I used, and oldy but still good.
• WooCommerce Membership: A great option because it incorporates Woo Commerce for taking payments for your membership, which you would otherwise have to setup separately on other Membership plugins (disclosure, Woo is now part of Automattic, developers of WordPress)

Here’s some questions you should ask yourself from this good article:

• How easy is the plugin to use on a day-to-day basis?
• How good are the support and training materials?
• How easy is it to learn and use?
• How is its payment gateway diversity?
• Does it have good e-commerce support?
• Does it allow sequential delivery/drip content?
• Does it provide multiple/concurrent accounts (e.g. for an office with 3 to 20 users)?
• What are its options for upselling and down-selling?
• Does it allow for prorating charges?

Here’s another good resource I found from Googling:

https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/six-of-the-best-wordpress-membership-plugins-for-2015

NOTE: You will also want to consider how your Membership site fits into your CRM or Email / Marketing Automation software. I use InfusionSoft for CRM/Email/Marketing and therefore Membership tools such as Memberium and iMember360 are great choices since they fully integrate with those services making your work communicating with your Customers more powerful.

Cheers,

Mike

Hi lailashi,

Do you mean H3?

H1 is your site title, and you probably want that in your header wouldn’t you?

If you’re meaning your page titles (which is why you have an empty space in your menu), then those are H3, not H1.

In either case, you can remove those in two ways:

#1 – Use CSS to declare the headline’s display property to none:

h3 {display: none;}

You can put this into your stylesheet, in your templates style tag, or directly in the headline element, however in your stylesheet is best practice.

You can also be more specific to target certain pages h3 tags by using id’s and classes like h3.entry-title (which would target h3’s only with the class “entry-title”, or #page-id-39 h3 (which would target h3’s only on the page with id “39”

#2 – Remove the element from the template markup:

Edit your templates php files, likely index.php or single.php and remove the line of code that prints your headline to the page.

If you want to have only certain types of pages with no headline, you should refer to the template hierarchy on how to create specific templates for customization.

https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/

Cheers,

Mike