Now I need to know what HTML to use to get the post to grab the PDF article direct link and make it appear in the post, if that is possible.
Dropbox uses folders, the only one being available to the public being the “public” folder. If you place your documents in a different folder, you’ll have to change the attributes for that folder to make it available to the public.
BTW, Dropbox is great. I use it to provide up-to-date information such as rosters to other officers of my Legion post, my Kiwanis club, etc. We each have Dropbox accounts and I’ve invited them to add my appropriate folder. So, my folder with the updated files automatically appears in their Dropbox (even locally on their PC).
Put the files in the “Public” folder that Dropbox creates for you.
Click on the Dropbox icon in the lower right pane and select “Open Dropbox folder”
Double-click the Public folder
For each file you want to share, right click the file and select “Dropbox -> Copy public link” Where “->” means to traverse a menu.
The link is on your clipboard. Go to a post you’re composing for FR or to a Word file and type “CTRL-v”. That is hold down the Control key and type v at the same time.
This will put in the link to the file. Repeat for each file.