How to Add a Downloadable PDF to Wix Blog Post

Have you ever felt guilty about giving your relative a bad advice? I have.

I spent years helping my uncle to build his WordPress site. His business grew and his site grew. WordPress is not user-friendly. He spent too much time fixing it. So I advised him to use Wix. I told him Wix had good blogging features just like WordPress.

He created his very first blog post. Immediately he proved me wrong. He wanted to add a downloadable PDF file to his post. But there was no obvious button for it. That made me feel guilty. Luckily, I was able to fix it.

I wrote my solution below. If you follow it, you will be able to add a PDF file download link to your blog post as well. The solution consists of three steps:

• 1. Upload PDF file to your Wix site
• 2. Copy the PDF file URL
• 3. Add the PDF file download link to blog post

1. Upload PDF File to Your Wix Site

There is no fire, there is no smoke. And there is no upload, there is no download. So your first step is to upload to Wix whatever file you want your visitors to download. In this case, it is the PDF file.

When you are in Wix Editor, you are working on a page. A site has multiple pages. You may wonder on which page you need to upload the file. The answer is any page. Because all files uploaded to Wix are stored in a centralized location. Any page on your site can access that centralized location. So, no worry about on which page you must perform the steps below.

Steps to upload PDF

• 1. Click Media icon
• 2. Click Upload Media icon
• 3. Select the PDF file from your computer and upload
• 4. Wait until the uploading process completes

2. Copy the PDF File URL 

I am going to tell you a secret. You can download many files on your Wix site if you know their URLs. You don’t need any downloading button for that. Wix blog post doesn’t give you such button either.

Now you exploit my secret. You get the URL of the PDF file you have just uploaded. Then you slap it on your blog post. Your visitors will click on the URL to download the file. It’s that simple!

Steps to get the URL of the PDF file

• 1. Navigate to site media
• 2. Right click on the PDF file
• 3. Click “Copy URL”

3. Add PDF File Download Link to Blog Post 

The last step is to nicely slap the PDF file download link to the blog post. 

You have three ways to do it. You can paste the link somewhere in your post. Or you hide the link behind a picture or a sentence, then tell the visitors to click on it. I think the later two options are the best.

Also please note that your visitors won’t click on the links if you don’t try to sell it. I give you two examples below to demonstrate my point. 

I don’t sell my link in this example: “click here to download the PDF note”. Now look at the second example: “I spent 3 hours to prepare this note. It has the best solutions for the 10 most common problems in web design. It will save you a lot of time. Click here to download the note”. Obviously, the second example gets more clicks.

Anyways, back to the technical instructions. The first instruction shows you how to insert the download link to the post text. The trick to add the download link to the post picture is in the second instruction.

Add a file download link to the post text

• 1. Add “Download PDF file” text to your post
• 2. Highlight the text, and click “Link” icon  
• 3. Paste the PDF file URL 

Add a file download link to the post picture

• 1. Insert a picture to your post
• 2. Click “Link” icon
• 3. Paste the PDF file URL

Conclusion

Even though Wix doesn’t provide a functionality to upload PDF file to a blog post, you can still achieve it with the workaround above. By adding the URL of the PDF file to your post. 

Let me know in the comment below if you have questions. Happy to help!