Best way for users to manage files on Wordpress

Post date: 2018-02-19 03:20:54

I'm building a Wordpress site for a local company and it will feature a PDF price list which will be updated every quarter or so. What's the best way of allowing them to upload the new file through the dashboard without sending it to me and still have the link on the Home Page work? Additional complication is I would like to directly link to the PDF so it is viewable in the browser, not have the file automatically download.

This seems like something that should be easy to sort but I'm struggling. The button on the Home Page simply says Price List and links to /uploads/price-list.pdf and I need that to link to the latest version of the PDF - and I want them to upload the file when they need to.

If I use the basic Wordpress media library then they will have to delete the existing file and upload the new one with exactly the same file name for the link on the Home Page to still work.

I've looked at download manager plugins and most seem to work in precisely the way I want as in I can create the Price List item which a user than can then edit at a later date to change the file it points at (without the source file having to have the same file name).

The problem is that when clicked on from a page, the file automatically downloads and I want it to open in the browser. Most other download managers seem to work in the same way and do not easily allow direct opening of the file itself in the browser - so if it's not a download manager I want - what is it?

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