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title: Allowing users to upload media library content on the live site
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can use the **Media file uploader** web part to allow users to upload content to a specific media library.

> **Info:** Note that the **Media gallery** web part provides the same functionality as the **Media file uploader** web part but allows users to view the media library content as well. The use of the **Media gallery** web part is described in [Displaying media library content on the live site](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/configuring-kentico/configuring-the-environment-for-content-editors/configuring-media-libraries/displaying-media-library-content-on-the-live-site.md).

## Putting the Media file uploader web part on your web page

1. Open the **Pages** application.
2. Choose the page on which you want to place the web part.
3. Switch to the **Design** tab.
4. [Place](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/developing-websites-using-portal-engine/using-and-configuring-web-parts.md#adding-web-parts) the **Media file uploader** web part to a **content area** of your choice. The **Web part properties** dialog box opens.
5. Under **General**, specify the following properties:
   1. **Library name** - Media library to which you want to be able to upload files.
   2. **Destination path** - relative path to the folder into which you want to upload the files.
   3. **Allow upload thumbnail** - turn on to enable on-site upload of file thumbnails.
6. **Save & Close**.

> **Info:** Note that users can only upload a thumbnail if they are uploading a media library file together with it. The thumbnail is attached to the file it is uploaded with.