PDF Poster – let visitors read PDFs without leaving the page

The Ultimate PDF Embedder Plugin for WordPress, Loved by Over 20,000+ Users PDF Poster | Documentation | Pricing | Support | Demo 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. Try the PDF Poster PRO – Unlock all premium features now! How to Use PDF Poster – Step-by-Step Guide https://youtube.com/watch?v=419cCdIRf3g 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!

Live Demo | Get PDF Poster PRO 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 - Did you like this plugin? Dislike it? Have a feature request? Please share your feedback with us Check out our other WordPress Plugins- Html5 Video Player – Display videos as single and playlist in multiple skins. Html5 Audio Player – Listen audios with awesome visuals. StreamCast – Customizable radio player with different skins. 3D Viewer – Embed 3D models and 3D products with interaction. Advanced Post Block – Show posts and custom posts in different layouts.

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working. e.g.

1. Upload plugin-directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Use shortcode on page, post, or in widgets.
4. If you want a news ticker in your theme php, Place <?php echo do_shortcode('YOUR_SHORTCODE'); ?> in your templates

2.5.6 - 31 Aug 2026

• New: Watermark & Branding — stamp a text or logo mark over any viewer, with six ready-made themes that set the angle, repeat, weight and blend for you.
• New: Watermark mark types — Text, Image (your logo) or both stacked together.
• New: Watermark Coverage — a single positioned mark, or tiled Sparse/Normal/Dense so it cannot be cropped out of a screenshot.
• New: Watermark Image Style — Original, Grayscale, White (for dark pages) or Black.
• New: Watermark Strength and Size as named steps rather than numbers, so the mark stays readable at every zoom level and on mobile.
• New: Watermark page scope (all pages, first page only, or all except the cover) and audience rules (everyone, everyone except admins, or logged-out visitors only).
• New: Watermark "Restore If Removed" option, which puts the mark back if a visitor deletes it with browser dev tools.
• New: Added a Watermark & Branding section to the Gutenberg block sidebar and the classic editor metabox, so the free build shows what the Pro watermarking tools cover.
• Update: Rewrote the Free and Pro feature lists so each one matches what that version actually ships — FlipBook, Slider, the [pdf_embed] shortcode, the classic editor metabox, the second Gutenberg block and Google Doc Viewer were all listed as Pro despite being free.
• Update: Documented every setting added since 2.5.2 (Viewer Theme, RTL Layout, Keyboard Navigation, Annotation Mode, Page Flip Sound, Fast Loading, Image Gallery flipbooks, social sharing) in the free feature list.
• Fixed: Blocks saved with PDF Poster Pro no longer lose their watermark configuration when the post is edited on a free install.
• Note: Watermarking is a deterrent, not DRM — an on-screen mark can be removed with browser dev tools, and no browser can prevent a screenshot. Marks in printouts and downloaded copies arrive in a following release.

2.5.5 - 03 Aug 2026

• New: Added Image Gallery source for the Flipbook viewer — build a page-flip book from an ordered set of images without a PDF.
• New: Added Viewer Theme option (Light/Dark/Auto) that themes the viewer toolbar and background without altering the PDF page content.
• New: Added RTL Layout option (Off/On/Auto) for right-to-left languages, applied across all viewers and the PDF toolbar.
• New: Added Keyboard Navigation option (Left/Right arrow keys to change pages) for all viewers.
• New: Added a Page Flip Sound toggle for Flipbook and Slider viewers (on by default; can now be turned off).
• New: Added Fast Loading (Progressive Rendering) option for all viewers (Default, Adobe, Flipbook, Scroll, Slider) to stream large PDFs so the first page appears sooner.
• Fixed: Full screen option smooth behaviour.

2.5.4 - 15 June 2026

• New: Added interactive PDF Chatbot assistant.
• New: Added Slider and Scroll Viewer options.
• New: Added Annotation Mode configuration for default viewer.
• New: Added Open PDF links in new tab configuration for default viewer.

2.5.3 - 10 June 2026

• Update: Admin Dashboard aligned with the latest standard and bpl-tools layout.
• Update: Update block.json version.
• Security: Enhanced request validation and sanitized AJAX inputs.
• Security: Secured public REST API endpoints with authentication checks.
• Compliance: Added full uninstall cleanup routine for custom options and database tables.
• Compliance: Standardized translation text domains to match the plugin slug.
• Fixed: Corrected general typos, updated GPL license headers, and added distribution ignore rules.

2.5.2 - 19 May 2026

• New: Added FlipBook Viewer support for a more interactive and realistic PDF reading experience.
• New: Introduced fully responsive Height & Width controls for Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile devices.
• New: Added a Device Preview Switcher in the plugin metabox for easier responsive configuration.
• Improved: Enhanced PDF viewer dimension handling across different screen sizes for better responsiveness.
• Improved: Refactored the entire plugin codebase for better maintainability and cleaner architecture.
• Improved: Removed unused and redundant code to reduce plugin bloat and improve performance.
• Improved: Optimized core functionality for faster loading and smoother user experience.
• Fixed: Resolved existing bugs and minor compatibility issues.
• Security: Strengthened overall plugin security and improved code quality following best practices.
• Update: Unlocked all previously gated Premium settings, making them fully functional in the Free version.
• Security: Enhanced request validation for API and AJAX endpoints.
• Security: Improved database query sanitization and hardening.
• Improved: Replaced PHP 8.0 specific functions to restore PHP 7.1+ support.
• Improved: Conducted a comprehensive i18n sweep for proper translation support.
• Compliance: Added explicit Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links to the readme.

2.5.1 – 25 April 2026

• Fixed: PDFs hosted on external domains or CDNs were not loading at all
• Fixed: Google Docs Viewer was sending the same request twice and canceling both
• Fixed: When Google Docs Viewer failed there was nothing to fall back on
• Fixed: PDF.js errors were invisible — users just saw a white empty box
• Fixed: No message was shown when a PDF file was missing or completely empty
• Fixed: PDF viewer was not opening on iPhone and iPad running iOS 16 and 17
• Fixed: Tapping the fullscreen button on iPhone did absolutely nothing
• Fixed: PDFs were not loading on Android Chrome and Samsung Internet browser
• Fixed: Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters were showing as random broken symbols
• Fixed: PDFs made with LaTeX or older Adobe tools were showing wrong or unreadable text
• Fixed: Changes made to an existing PDF entry were lost after hitting update
• Fixed: Shortcode was pasting fine but showing nothing at all on the live page
• Fixed: PDFs with spaces or special characters in the filename were crashing the viewer
• Fixed: An unexpected heading was appearing above the viewer on some themes
• Fixed: Embedding a PDF by URL was showing raw code instead of the actual document
• Fixed: PDF viewer was not displaying properly inside Elementor's preview panel
• Update: Removed unexpected or unnecessary conten & code from the whole plugin.

2.5.0 - 01 Mar, 2026

• New: Popup Trigger Type Image
• New : Popup Trigger Alignment
• New : Popup Trigger Image Size
• New : Popup Trigger Image PDF Icon
• Update: Help & Demo Page
• New: Added an option to move the action buttons (Print, Fullscreen, Download) to the top or bottom.
• Update: Hide sidebar on mobile devices

2.4.1 - 09 Feb, 2026

• Fixed: Warning: Attempt to read property "post_type" on null in WC Orders Add/Edit page
• Fixed: Broken Access Control
• Removed: Upgrade Section from Gutemberg Block (Premium)
• Removed: Upgrade Section from Classic Shortcode Generator (Premium)

2.4.0 - 20 Jan, 2026

• Added: Social Share feature
• Added: Icons before each PanelBody title in the Gutenberg block
• Added: Help text for control fields
• Improved: Gutenberg Block Settings UI
• Improved: Classic Shortcode Generator UI
• Improved: Overall UI consistency and clarity
• Fixed: Missing Google Drive icon
• Fixed: Google Drive integration issues
• Fixed: Dropbox integration issues
• Fixed: PDF Poster selector block not working
• Updated: PDF Poster menu icon
• Updated: Removed unexpected or unnecessary content

2.3.1 - 22 Sep, 2025

• Fixed: Fullscreen issue
• Fixed: Divi Builder Image Upload issue

2.3.0 - 13 Aug, 2025

• New Page: Dashboard
• Fixed: Fixed Preset Preview issue
• Fixed: Adobe Embedder issue
• Improved: Code

2.2.4 - 14 July, 2025

• Fixed: ACF Pro - wysiwig editor - "Add PDF" button does not work
• Fixed: quick embed options does not work

2.2.3 - 11 May, 2025

• Fixed: file upload issue

2.2.2 - 12 Feb, 2025

• Update: Visible scrollbar when selected 'show only PDF/Raw PDF'
• Fixed: _load_textdomain_just_in_time() was called incorrectly.

2.2.1 - 28 Jan, 2025

• Fixed: your site doesn’t include support for the "pdfp/pdfposter" block.
• Update: WordPress SDK

2.2.0 - 06 Oct, 2024

• Fixed: Overlapping content

2.2.0 - 06 Oct, 2024

• Fixed: Overlapping content

2.1.25 - 24 July, 2024

• Fixed: 404 Not Found - PDFPro\Helper\Pipe::checkPipe()

2.1.24 - 29 June, 2024

• Fixed: iPad/iPhone issue

2.1.23 - 27 June, 2024

• Fixed: directive error

2.1.21 - 25 March, 2024

• Fixed: Avada Builder style broken

2.1.20 - 19 Feb, 2024

• Fixed: Deprecated issue

2.1.19 - 9 Jan, 2024

• Feature: Show Download button

2.1.18 - 24 Dec, 2023

• Security: Improved

2.1.17 - 4 Dec, 2023

• Removed Ads

2.1.16 - 28 Nov, 2023

• Fixed: Can't Edit Newsletter

2.1.15 - 24 Nov, 2023

• Fixed: Removed admin ber add

2.1.14 - 24 Nov, 2023

• Fixed: Sidebar open all time

2.1.12 - 17 Sep, 2023

• Fixed SSL issue

2.0.10 - 4/5/2022

• solved - "Oops! You forgot to select a pdf file."

2.0.9 - 4/4/2022

• Fixed SSL issue

2.0.8 - 1/26/2022

• Fixed Responsive issue

2.0.7

• Forbidden issue fixed

2.0.6

• Disable Gutenberg as default shortcode generator

2.0.3

• Option to enable/disable Gutenberg Shortcode Generator

2.0.0

• Added Advanced Shortcode Generator
• Improved Security Performance
• Fixed Height issue on mobile device

1.6

• Fix isuue and make compatible with Wordpress 5.5 Version

1.5

• Fix Gutenberg block issue
• Fix toggle menu in viewer

1.4

• Add support for Gutenberg Block

1.3

• Fix an issue

1.2

• removed an ad.
• fix issue which causes centralize the content.
• Improved performance.

1.1

• fix an issue with pdf positions

1.0

• Initial Release