For PDF downloads, we're using a tool called download monitor, and you can control that from the left hand side of your WordPress installation. Look for the downloads tab right here. And when you click into that, you'll see this all downloads area. One of the best features of the download monitor tool is when you We can go in here to a specific download and it will generate for you both a URL that you can use to deep link directly into this download, or you can use a short code to link to it from within your WordPress install, or you can use a collection of automatically built.
Lists based on taxonomy in here, but in this example, what I want to do is show you how we can swap out the version of a file for a new file without creating a whole new link. And this means you don't have to change any of the direct links that you've pasted anywhere else on the site. Um, Or via short codes or via QR codes.
All we're going to do here is go down to where it says downloadable files and versions, and we'll add a file. And just to test this, you can see the version that we've got now. If I were to copy the direct link URL and paste it into my. Browser. It's going to pop a download and you can see the test page as the download right here.
So we're going to replace that and to do that. I'll just add a file and we'll upload this and I'll go ahead and upload our test page to. Okay. So now you see, this is the raw URL. This is the URL. We don't want to give out because this is where it's stored on our CVN. Uh, what we'll do is click update. And now the URL that we do want to give out over here is the same exact URL as before.
So if we see it right here, we can see that this is exactly the same URL as before. I can even paste it in right here. And now I'm getting This version of the page, which is our new PDF. So this is a great way to make sure that you send out links once to a, uh, either a target URL or a trusted URL, but you never have to reveal the actual file locations and you can update these files at any time and you can keep the old versions intact if you want over time.
The system will give you analytics on how many of each version were downloaded, and it will keep track of the overall number of downloads for the entire series under this particular link. And some folks find that very useful as well.