WordPress comes with a Media Library, which is like a little file manager (without the folders) built right in. You can upload about anything to the Media Library, including PDFs. Here’s how.
Note on Max File Size: WordPress allows admins to set maximum file size restrictions, but these are superseded by PHP’s max-upload and execution time settings. More on all that web hosting stuff here. Just try to keep each file less than 5 MB.
Uploading 1 PDF to WordPress
- Login to the WordPress admin
- Go to Media >> Add New
- Drag & Drop the PDF in or click Select and browse for it on your computer
- It’ll upload the PDF for you
- Once complete, click Edit
- On the right-hand side, under Save you’ll see File URL
- Copy that URL (it’ll be something like, ”http://yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/…”)
You can link to the PDF by highlighting anything you want to link, click the link button and enter the URL you copied.
You could even just email someone that link and it’ll open the PDF.
Uploading Multiple PDFs to WordPress
Since WordPress version 3, the Media Library allows admins to upload multiple files (PDFs, images, ZIPs, whatever) at once.
The process is about the same as above. All you do differently is either drag multiple PDFs or whatever into the upload media box or click “Select” and CTRL+click to select multiple files. Each file will upload individually all on its own.