PDF Poster – let visitors read PDFs without leaving the page

The Ultimate PDF Embedder Plugin for WordPress, Loved by Over 20,000+ Users

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PDF Poster is a flexible plugin that allows you to embed PDF documents directly into WordPress posts, pages, widgets, or templates. Whether you’re sharing brochures, eBooks, business files, or portfolios, the plugin provides a responsive and accessible layout that works across all devices.

Embed with the Gutenberg block, the [pdf_embed] shortcode, or the classic editor — whichever fits how you already work. The free version ships three viewers (the bundled PDF.js viewer, an interactive FlipBook and a Slider), independent height and width for desktop, tablet and mobile, print, download and full-screen buttons, social sharing, light/dark theming, RTL support and progressive loading for large files. Content protection, watermarking, the Adobe and Continuous Scroll viewers, popups and cloud imports are Pro.

Key Features – Free Version

Everything below is in the free plugin. No trial, no locked toggles.

Three viewers, no configuration

• Default Viewer: The bundled Mozilla PDF.js engine — page navigation, zoom, text search and text selection, on desktop and mobile.

• FlipBook Viewer: A realistic page-turn book with a page-flip sound you can switch off.

• Slider Viewer: One page at a time, swipe or click through — ideal for brochures and menus.

• FlipBook from Images: Build a page-flip book from an ordered set of images instead of a PDF, for scanned or design-tool output.

Embed it anywhere

• Two Gutenberg Blocks: The PDF Poster block to embed a file directly, and the PDF Poster Selector block to drop in a document you already saved.

• Shortcode: Use [pdf_embed] in any post, page, widget or template — every viewer option is available as an attribute.

• Classic Editor Metabox: A full settings panel on every PDF Poster document, so you never have to touch a block to configure a viewer.

Responsive by device

• Separate Height & Width for Desktop, Tablet and Mobile: Set each breakpoint independently instead of forcing one size everywhere.

• Device Preview Switcher: Flip between desktop, tablet and mobile while you configure, in both the block and the metabox.

Reading experience

• Viewer Theme (Light / Dark / Auto): Themes the viewer toolbar and background. The PDF page content is never altered.

• RTL Layout (Off / On / Auto): Flips the viewer and toolbar for Arabic, Hebrew and other right-to-left languages, across every viewer.

• Keyboard Navigation: Left and right arrow keys change pages in all viewers.

• Annotation Mode: Shows the notes, highlights, comments and clickable links already saved inside the PDF.

• Open PDF Links in a New Tab: Links clicked inside the document open in a new tab, keeping your page open.

• Filename Display: Show the document name above the viewer.

Actions and sharing

• Print: Let visitors print straight from the viewer, or turn printing off.

• Download Button: One-click download above the viewer.

• Full-Screen Button with Your Own Label: Rename it for your language or your wording.

• Social Sharing: Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Pinterest and email buttons, placed above or below the viewer, each one individually switchable.

Styling

• Button and Title Styling: Background colour, text colour, font size and padding for the action buttons, plus the title font size — no CSS needed.

Performance and reliability

• Fast Loading (Progressive Rendering): Streams large PDFs so the first page appears while the rest is still downloading.

• Google Doc Viewer Fallback: An optional second rendering path for browsers that mishandle inline PDFs (recommended for Edge).

In the dashboard

• PDF Poster Dashboard: One place for your documents, demos, help and changelog.

• PDF Chatbot Assistant: Ask setup questions without leaving WordPress.

• Quick Embedder Defaults: Set the default height, width, filename display and download button once, and every new document starts there.

• Unlimited Documents: No cap on how many PDFs you embed.

PDF Poster Pro – Unlock Advanced Features

PDF Poster Pro adds the viewers, navigation, branding and document-protection controls that the free version deliberately leaves out.

Watermark & Branding — new in Pro

• Text, Logo, or Both: Stamp your wording, your logo, or a logo with a caption over every page.

• Six Ready-Made Themes: Confidential, Draft Stamp, Sample Wash, Brand Corner, Logo Wash and Logo + Caption — each one carries its own angle, tiling and weight. A Custom theme is there when you want to set the angle yourself.

• Coverage, Strength, Size and Angle: From a single corner mark to a dense tile that cannot be cropped out, at five opacity steps and four sizes including fit-to-page.

• Dynamic Placeholders: Drop {site_name}, {post_title}, {file_name}, {page}, {pages}, {date}, {year}, {user_name}, {user_email} or {user_ip} into the text and it resolves per page and per visitor.

• Choose Who Sees It: Everyone, everyone except administrators (so you can proof the clean original), or logged-out visitors only.

• Choose Which Pages: All pages, the first page only, or everything except the cover.

• Anti-Leak Options: A per-visitor stamp that identifies whoever opened a leaked screenshot, plus tamper restore that puts the mark back if a visitor deletes it with browser dev tools.

• Live Preview: The block sidebar draws the mark with the same builder the front end uses, so what you see is what publishes.

More viewers

• Adobe PDF Viewer: Rendering by the Adobe PDF Embed API, with Adobe’s own embed and view modes.

• Continuous Scroll Viewer: Built for long reports — every page in one uninterrupted scroll.

• Reader Mode: The document and nothing else. No toolbar, no frame, no distractions.

Navigation controls

• Thumbnail Sidebar: Show the page thumbnails panel, and choose whether it opens by default.

• Initial Page and Default Zoom: Open on page 12 at 125% if that is where the reader should start.

• Horizontal Scrollbar: Make horizontal scrolling the default for wide documents.

Document protection

• Disable Right-Click and Copying: Block the context menu and copy shortcuts on your documents.

• Disable Text Selection: Stop text being dragged out of the viewer.

• Suppress Blocked-Action Alerts: Enforce protection quietly, without warning pop-ups.

Popup viewer

• Open PDFs in a Modal: Keep the page clean and load the document on click.

• Button or Image Trigger: Trigger from a styled button or from any image, with your own alignment, image dimensions and an optional PDF icon overlay.

Full button control

• Rename the Download Button: Your label, your language.

• Show or Hide the Full-Screen Button, and optionally open full-screen in a new tab.

• Move the Action Bar: Put Print, Download and Full-Screen above or below the viewer.

Cloud and workflow

• Google Drive Picker and Dropbox Import: Pull a PDF straight from cloud storage instead of uploading it twice.

• Presets: Save a viewer configuration once and apply it site-wide, including to classic shortcodes.

• Custom CSS and Custom Classes: Global CSS plus a per-embed class, for full design control.

• Always Load the Latest Version: Replace the file and every embed updates — no re-linking.

• Quick Embedder for the Classic Editor: An embed tool and shortcode generator built into the classic editor.

• Priority One-on-One Support: Straight to the developers.

Coming soon in Pro: in-viewer Ads and per-document Analytics — both already sketched in the interface, shipping in a later release.

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How to Use PDF Poster – Step-by-Step Guide

Getting started with PDF Poster is quick and easy!

Step-by-Step Instructions

• After installing, go to the “PDF Poster” menu in your WordPress dashboard

• Upload one or more PDF documents

• Copy the Shortcode shown in the editor or PDF list

• Paste the shortcode into any post, page, or widget area

• Hit the Publish button.

Enjoy your beautifully embedded PDF!

Gutenberg Block Integration

Using the block editor? Here’s how to embed PDFs in just a few clicks:
Open a post or page in the WordPress editor

• Click the + icon or use the slash command (/pdf)

• Find PDF Poster under the Layout Elements category

• Click the icon to insert the block

• Choose your PDF from the media library

• Hit Publish and enjoy!

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Shortcode Usage

Shortcode

[pdf_embed url=”https://example.com/document.pdf” width=”100%” height=”842px” print=”true” title=”My PDF Document” download_btn=”true” fullscreen_btn_text=”View in Fullscreen”]

Attributes

• url (required): The URL of the PDF file.

  • Default: null
  • Example: url="https://example.com/document.pdf"

• width (optional): Width of the PDF viewer.

  • Default: "100%"
  • Example: width="80%"

• height (optional): Height of the PDF viewer.

  • Default: "842px"
  • Example: height="600px"

• print (optional): Display a print button.

  • Accepted values: "true", "false"
  • Default: "false"
  • Example: print="true"

• title (optional): Title displayed above the PDF viewer.

  • Default: null
  • Example: title="Document Title"

• download_btn (optional): Display a download button.

  • Accepted values: "true", "false"
  • Default: "false"
  • Example: download_btn="true"

• fullscreen_btn_text (optional): Text for the fullscreen button.

  • Default: "View Fullscreen"
  • Example: fullscreen_btn_text="Open Fullscreen"

User Feedback

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Weronika Zielinska – Empp

❛❛A great plugin that makes it easy to add the necessary posters and pdfs! It makes it very easy to quickly create a website. I definitely recommend it and we will definitely use it always.❜❜

–empp

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ good plugin

❛❛This pdf poster plugin does really solve my requirement.❜❜

–a2zdoctors

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Source Code

You can find the source code, report bugs, and contribute to the development of this plugin on our GitHub repository:
PDF Poster on GitHub

This plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript/PHP libraries.

PDF.js v3.38.1 (Legacy build)

• File: assets/pdfjs-new/generic-legacy/pdf.js
• Source: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/
• GitHub: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
• License: Apache-2.0 – https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/master/LICENSE
• Purpose: High-performance, standard-compliant PDF rendering in the browser.

Freemius SDK v2.13.1

• Source: https://freemius.com/
• GitHub: https://github.com/Freemius/wordpress-sdk
• License: GPLv3 – https://github.com/Freemius/wordpress-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
• Purpose: Provides licensing, updates, and opt-in usage tracking/analytics.

Codestar Framework v2.3.0

• File: vendor/codestar-framework/
• Source: https://codestarframework.com/
• GitHub: https://github.com/Codestar/codestar-framework
• License: GPLv2 – https://github.com/Codestar/codestar-framework/blob/master/LICENSE
• Purpose: Lightweight and modern options framework for settings and metaboxes.

bpl-tools

• Source / GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools
• License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
• Purpose: Shared utility library providing admin dashboard components and common Gutenberg editor controls.
• External Services: The library may connect to bPlugins, WordPress.org, and Freemius services for product data and checkout functionality. See full details: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools#external-requests–why-they-are-made

Montserrat Font (Google Fonts)

• Source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat
• License: SIL Open Font License (OFL) – https://scripts.sil.org/OFL
• Purpose: Primary typeface for the plugin interface.

This plugin optionally connects to the following external services for enhanced functionality.

Google Docs Viewer

• Source: https://docs.google.com/gview
• Purpose: Used as a fallback rendering engine when native PDF.js fails or in specific viewer modes.
• Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Adobe PDF Embed API

• Source: https://documentservices.adobe.com/view-sdk/main.js
• Purpose: Provides an alternative high-quality viewing experience (requires user configuration).
• Terms of Use: https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html
• Privacy Policy: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html