LayoutGlut - PDF, Doc, Excel, Image and more File preview for WooCommerce

Selling ebooks, templates, worksheets, spreadsheets, sheet music or courses? LayoutGlut adds a preview of your files to WooCommerce products, so customers can look inside before they buy. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7MIbXhqSDo] Where previews show

• Product page: choose a Page design — the whole product page (gallery with images and files, price, buy box, file list and description) laid out as one design, then fine-tune colors, fonts and layout in the Page Builder. Block themes too: LayoutGlut replaces the theme's WooCommerce templates (product, shop, archives, search) and keeps the theme header and footer
• Shop, category, tag and search pages: a "Preview" button (button, icon or link) on each product card that opens a popup
• Anywhere: the [layoutglut_preview] shortcode
• Classic and block themes

What can be previewed

• PDF, Word (DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF), Excel (XLS, XLSX, ODS, CSV), PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX, ODP) and text files — Word (DOCX) and Excel (XLSX, CSV) in the browser; the rest through the Google Docs viewer
• Images, video and audio — with the built-in viewer

Per product A "File Preview" box on the product edit screen: pick the product's downloadable files, a file from the media library (for example a free sample) or a link; label, order and switch each one on or off; show or hide previews for one product. Admin

• Preview Files: every product with previews, file types, what is not shown and why, quick on / off switches
• Global Settings: page design, popup or inline viewer, button style and text, colors, custom CSS
• Page Builder: customize the chosen page design with a live preview
• Tools: system status, export / import, reset, delete all

Good to know The Google Docs viewer has to download the file from your site, so documents only preview on a site that is reachable from the internet, and only for files with a public URL (not files in the protected WooCommerce downloads folder — upload a sample to the media library instead). Images, video and audio work everywhere. LayoutGlut Pro renders PDF (PDF.js), Word (DOCX) and Excel (XLSX, XLS, ODS, CSV) on your own site through signed, expiring links, works on local and private sites and with protected files, and adds preview limits for non-buyers with a buy box, watermarks, copy protection, buyer and role access rules, previews in My Account › Downloads and preview analytics.

3.3.0

• Block themes: the product page, shop page, category / tag / attribute archives and product search results can use LayoutGlut templates instead of the theme's WooCommerce block templates. The theme header and footer stay; the Page designs, Page Builder and shop / archive card designs now work on block themes.
• New setting: Global Settings › Advanced › Block themes, to choose which pages use LayoutGlut templates.
• Block themes: WooCommerce product page scripts (tabs, variations, gallery zoom, slider and lightbox) are loaded on pages that use the LayoutGlut template.
• New filters: layoutglut_block_template_content and layoutglut_block_template_gallery_support.

3.2.0

• The Position setting is removed from Product Page settings: the product page is laid out by the chosen Page design (classic themes); block themes show the file gallery in place of the product image.
• Product Page settings simplified: no separate Design heading, tab title, tab order or gallery options.
• Readme and help texts updated for page designs and the Page Builder.

3.1.2

• Admin screens use the new pink accent color to match the LayoutGlut logo.

3.1.1

• New LayoutGlut logo in the admin header and menu, matching the WordPress.org plugin icon.

3.1.0

• New Page Builder with ready-made preview page designs (5 in the free plugin, 20 with Pro) and a template picker.
• Word (DOCX) and Excel files can be previewed in the browser using the bundled Mammoth and SheetJS libraries.
• Improved free-version file preview and File Preview box on products.
• Extension API refinements for LayoutGlut Pro and add-ons.

3.0.1

• New plugin icon, banner and screenshots.
• The Save settings button is easier to read in the admin header.
• Readme wording improvements.

3.0.0

• Rebuilt as a WooCommerce file preview plugin.
• Product tab / section, shop and archive buttons, popup and inline viewer, shortcode.
• File Preview box on products; Preview Files, Global Settings and Tools screens.
• Extension API for LayoutGlut Pro and add-ons (see EXTENDING.md).