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How to upload a secure/subscriber only pdf in s2member pro

Name: How to upload a secure/subscriber only pdf in s2member pro
Uploaded: 2011-11-10T17:18:56+00:00
Duration: 1 min 43 s
Channel: Pete Ericson
Description: Pete Ericson shows how to upload a protected PDF in s2Member Pro. Create a post in WordPress, click the lock-icon upload button, select your PDF, and…

10 Nov 2011 · 2 min

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Pete Ericson shows how to upload a protected PDF in s2Member Pro. Create a post in WordPress, click the lock-icon upload button, select your PDF, and insert it. The file goes into a secure directory that only logged-in members at the right level can access. Google can't index it.

Questions this video answers

The button with a little lock icon.

The file is uploaded to the protected folder/secure directory and a link (named after the PDF) is inserted into the post.

Only users who are logged in and have the required membership level.

No — the file is placed in a secure directory and is not visible to the general public or search engines.

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In this video, I'm going to show you how to upload a protected PDF or a member only PDF to a post. And here we have the website and we're already logged in. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the dashboard or you can actually just go to add new post here. So we'll create a new post and you just go about creating the post as you normally would with a title and add whatever text you need to add to the post. And now the secret to adding a protected PDF or actually you could protect any file that you upload, but PDF would be the typical use is you click this button here that has a little lock on it. Once we click that button, it brings up the file chooser and we'll go browse and find a file on the desktop. Let's choose this PDF here, hit open and then after that all you have to do is click the insert into post button. And what will happen is that will upload the file to the protected folder and it will insert the link and the link name will be the name of the PDF. And what you can do if you like is you can go in and edit the name and then you can hit save. And what I'll do here is I'll just save a draft and you're done. And if you hit preview, we'll find that the link is visible and you can download it only if you're logged in and have the right membership level requirements. The general public will not have access to this file. Google will not find this file. This is in a secure directory that's not visible to the general public.