Comprehensive documentation on customizing the PDF viewer and how to use all the plugin features.

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  • Using PDF Embedder Watermark Settings

    Ensure the ownership of your PDFs by adding watermark text with options to adjust alignment, offset, font size, opacity, rotation, and page display.

  • Serving protected PDF files under Caddy

    Caddy users: Ensure the security of your /securepdfs/ folder for PDF Embedder Premium plugin.

  • Usage Tracking

    Usage tracking is essential for our team to continuously improve our services and provide you with the best possible experience. In this article, learn what exactly we are collecting about PDF Embedder, WordPress and your Server.

  • Drag and Drop Layout Builders

    When using a theme that has a module based layout builder such as Elementor, WPBakery, DIVI Builder, Beaver Builder, etc. the regular embed method will result in the PDF appearing as a link instead of the expected embedded viewer. Most of these drag and drop editors use their own propriety method to access the Media…

  • Display PDF Download and Views in a Page or Post

    Note: this code will only work with the Premium versions of the plugin and only with files served from the /wp-content/uploads/ directory on your server. You will need to write a bit of PHP for this feature. The code can be added to a custom or child theme’s functions.php file or by using a plugin…

  • Serving Protected Files under Nginx

    NGINX users: Ensure the security of your /securepdfs/ folder for PDF Embedder Secure plugin

  • Block Editor (Gutenberg) and PDF Embedder

    The PDF Embedder plugin v4.0 for the free and Premium versions work with WordPress v5.0 and the Block Editor (also known as Gutenberg). Open the Blocks menu and select the PDF Embedder: An element will be inserted into the page / post content. Click on the “Media Library” button to navigate to the Media Library…

  • Wrapping content around an embedded PDF

    With a little bit of HTML / CSS you can accomplish this. You will likely want to set a default max-width in the plugin settings or you can use the width attribute in the shortcode to limit the viewer width on specific embeds – I mention it just for future reference in case you want…

  • Display PDFs to paying users only

    Restrict PDF access to paying members only using PDF Embedder Pro with the help of S2Members, MemberPress or Easy Digital Downloads plugins.

  • Automatically open in full screen mode?

    There is no option to automatically open up in full screen mode. The best alternative is to create a ‘full page’ template in your theme that doesn’t have many of the features of most pages (e.g. header menu and sidebars) and allows the content to take up most of the width of the page.

  • Auto-generate Attachment Page to embed PDF

    Discover how to automatically generate unique ‘Attachment Pages’ for displaying PDF Viewer with the Premium version of a plugin.

  • Keyboard Shortcuts for full screen mode

    In full screen mode (Premium versions only), the following keyboard shortcuts can be used: Page Up / Down (Cmd + Up / Down on a Mac) – move to next/prev page Arrow keys – pan around the current page of the PDF Escape – exit full screen mode