Embed a PDF from the Media Library or via oEmbed in a Google Doc Viewer.
Embed a PDF from the Media Library or elsewhere via oEmbed or as a block into an iframe tag. The URL only has to be world reachable link. Chrome uses Google Doc Viewer as Chrome seems to automatically rendered embedded JS in PDFs automatically. Uses Google Doc Viewer with mobile.
Inspired by Embed PDF and RV Embed PDF.
Many thanks to Alex Kirk for making Embed PDF Viewer compatible with the new block editor.
Development on GitHub. Pull requests are welcome against the develop branch.
Known Issues
Occasionally Google Doc Viewer will not correctly load the PDF. Reloading the page should correct the issue, though this may need to be done several times.
Screenshots
Embed PDF Viewer block
Select PDF
PDF block and attributes
2.4.8 / 2025-02-21
2.4.7 / 2025-02-05
- validate destination URL for oEmbed
- add
max-height: 500px; to PDF display
2.4.6 / 2024-11-01
- remove
load_plugin_textdomain()
2.4.5 / 2024-10-7
2.4.4 / 2024-08-16
- refactor
$description in dynamic_render_callback(), who knew the title attribute could be not set
- update requirements, PHP 7.4+, WP 6.0
2.4.1 – 2.4.3 / 2024-08-08
- more sanitizing of URL
- fix typos and update readme
- use media file description for title if present
- escape description in render
2.4.0 / 2024-08-06
- convert to only use
iframe
- use Google Doc Viewer for Chrome and mobile
- dynamically render
iframe in block based on browser
- mitigate Chromium issue by rendering PDF with Google Doc Viewer
- thanks to @costdev for helping with dynamic block rendering
2.3.1 / 2023-09-10
- update GA
- update tested to
2.3.0 / 2021-07-07
- add @10up GitHub Actions integration for WordPress SVN
2.2.0 / 2021-03-05
- update Toolbar to ToolbarGroup and ToolbarButton
- add limited support for block alignment toolbar
- fixes for i18n in block
- exclude
/build from make-pot in composer.json, doesn’t work with minimized JS
2.1.2 / 2020-09-15
- use same block name for oembed
- add additional dependencies to enqueue
2.1.1 / 2020-07-20
- update block for deprecated items and minor errors
- update media selector for only PDFs
2.1.0 / 2020-07-20
- update block build process
- add title and description attributes for a11y
- add PDF svg for block
2.0.5 / 2020-03-09
- minor updates to plugin structure on GitHub
- update tested to
2.0.4 / 2019-10-05
2.0.3 / 2019-04-25
- move block registration to it’s own function and hook
- WPCS updates
2.0.2 / 2019-02-03
- update WordPress requirements
2.0.1 / 2019-01-11
- added
composer.json and automatically create POT with composer update
- added check for
register_block_type() for WP 4.9.x and below
2.0.0 / 2018-12-20 🎂
- a proper PDF block was added with much help from Alex Kirk, many thanks
1.6.1 / 2018-11-25
- properly initialize
load_plugin_textdomain()
1.6.0 / 2018-07-22
- added filter
embed_pdf_viewer_pdf_attributes
- updated
readme.txt to include Requires PHP header
- added paragraph tag around link to PDF
1.5.0 / 2016-12-17
- added CSS to fallback to
iframe on iOS as object isn’t scrollable 😛
1.4.0
- switch to using
object tag, with iframe as fallback display method
1.3.0
- inserting anything other than PDF from Media Library now works as expected.
1.2.1
- fixed a couple of PHP warnings
1.2.0
- inserting a PDF from the Media Library now simply inserts the URL for oEmbed
- oEmbed a PDF from any source
1.1.2
- simplify
instance() just a little more
1.1.1
- rename instance variable to
$instance and make private
- update DocBlocks
- ensure
$atts is an array
1.1
- bugfix for not returning media item when not PDF, Bad Andy 🙁
1.0.1
1.0
- refactor to put embed code in one function
- add assets
0.1
