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Changing button icons

​If you want to change the icons for the buttons, you would need to upload new images and point the CSS to those images. The icons are located in the /img/ directory of the plugin and the CSS to call

How to include attachment pages in search results

To include the attachment page of your embedded PDFs in the search results, add a small PHP snippet to your theme's functions.php file (if using a child theme or theme that has option to add custom functions without altering the

Translating the viewer toolbar and buttons

The PDF Embedder plugin has a translation template file located in the /lang/ folder within the plugin directory. You can use the pdf-embedder.pot to translate the plugin to another language. You will want to use a program such as POEdit (free) to

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

Display PDF Download and Views in a Page or Post

Note: this code will only work with the Premium and Secure 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

Gutenberg Editor and PDF Embedder

The PDF Embedder plugin v.4.0 for the free, Premium, and Secure versions work with WordPress v.5.0 and Gutenberg Editor plugin v.4.6.1. Open the Common Blocks menu and select the PDF Embedder: An element will be inserted into the page /

How best to add multiple PDFs to a single page or post

The Thumbnails plugin generates images of the PDF for you. You can display the thumbnails as a grid on a page or post; however, this is something you would do as part of editing your content rather than a plugin

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 to the shortcode to limit the viewer width

Display PDFs to paying users only

PDF Embedder doesn't provide a way to accept payment from users before they are allowed to view a PDF, but PDF Embedder Secure can be used in conjunction with other plugins to ensure PDFs are not available until users have

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)

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