Yes, if you purchased the PDF Embedder Secure version in the past or the PDF Embedder Premium and its Pro license then you can switch between ‘secure’ and normal modes. You do not need purchasing separately an additional Basic version just for that.
In Settings -> PDF Embedder / Secure tab, there is an option “Secure PDFs”.
- If this is checked, subsequent PDF uploads will be uploaded as “secure”, and embedded as such when selected for inclusion in a page.
- If unchecked, uploads will go to the normal media uploads area (outside the special
/securepdfs/folder), and will be embedded as normal without the “secure” protection.
You can find out more by reading the Secure Instructions.
It is also possible to ensure your ‘normal’ PDFs have a download button available to your viewer, but your ‘secure’ PDFs do not. To do this, set the main Download Button checkbox to on or off depending on whether the bulk of your PDFs are likely to be secure or normal – do this in the ‘Main Settings’ tab of Settings -> PDF Embedder.
Then for individual embedded PDFs you can add a download attribute to the shortcode if you wish to override the global setting. This is described under shortcode attributes – you would insert download="on" or "off" before the end of the shortcode:
[pdf-embedder url="..." download="on"]Code language: JSON / JSON with Comments (json)The “PDF Embedder” block in the Block Editor has a dedicate switch to toggle this option inside the Actions panel.