If you want to embed a PDF file in WordPress Post or page but not want to add any other plugin. Then, here is the solution. Adding more and more plugins makes your website slow, however, we often required to embed or add the PDF file in our WordPress post, then why should, we compromise the speed.
By default, when you upload and add the PDF files from the Media section to WordPress post; it only embeds a PDF in your blog post and shows only the PDF file name along with a link. In case, if you just want to give a user the PDF file download capabilities then it is good but not if you want to show the PDF file in the post so that user can view and read it directly on your website without leaving it; that also decrease the bounce rate.
In this article, we will show you how to add a PDF viewer in WordPress without using any PDF embedder WordPress plugin.
Directly adding WordPress PDF Viewer is just like embedding the audio or video files, for example, YouTube.
Steps to Embed PDF files in WordPress post:
- Go to WordPress post where you want to add the PDF file to view.
- Now click on the Add Media button.
- Click on the Upload files Tab.
- Now again click on the Select file button to upload the PDF file.
- Select and upload your PDF file to WordPress media gallery.
- Once it uploads, come back to your blog post.
- Where you want to add the PDF file viewer click there and after that just click on the TEXT tab given on the right top side of your text editor.
- Inside the text editor just place the following code.
<embed src="https://ww.example.com/demo.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="774" height="774"></embed>
- Now click on the Add media, select the PDF file and copy its URL given on the right side.
- After copying the URL, just replace the https://ww.example.com/demo.pdf with your own pdf file.
- You can also increase or decrease the size of embedded pdf file by altering the value of Width and height attributes given in the code.
- Once you replaced the URL you will see you have successfully added the embedded PDF file viewer on WordPress post without any external plugin.
Screenshot for the above tutorial to get a clear idea, how to add PDF file viewer without a plugin
Step 1: Go to Media and Upload the PDF file.
Step 2: After uploading, just copy the URL of the PDF file and replace the: https://ww.example.com/demo.pdf in above give code with your own PDF file URL and that’s it; you are done!!
Embed PDF Viewer on WordPress Demo:
The above method may not work in the Microsoft edge browsers. In such a case, you can use the iframe code:
<iframe src=”https://www.how2shout.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/pdf-sample.pdf” width=”688″ height=”688″> </iframe>
Note: Change the pdf link with yours and in the Text tab of the editor same as mentioned above in this article…
I hope this article would help you in somehow if you get any problem while adding PDF file and viewing in WordPress post then please let us know, the comment box is all yours!!
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I was able to follow each step, but when I preview or upload the code with my custom pdf url, it continues to display as a link, not an embedded pdf. Any insignt?
It might be possible some security plugin on your WordPress preventing the code from showing the PDF at frontend. If you have implemented the above correctly then please disable the installed plugins for a moment and then again test the above code.
Thank you so much! I spent an hour searching for this answer. I love the way my PDF looks in WordPress
Thanks but if use tag “embed” don’t show on IE.
Best upload file PDF to Google Drive and embed it use tag “iframe”
Thank you BUT you have the old look of wordpress
and it does not work the way you describe
I click on the upload file and there is no select file to follow
just opens my file where i keep the pdf files
After uploading the file just search it with its name in media, it will appear and then copy the URL. Or just upload the PDF file to google drive and copy the link from there…
Thank you for this tutorial – very helpful!
Is there a way to change the dark grey background color to something else?
Thanks how2shout team, it worked perfectly for me.
Hmm. I followed your instructions and double checked each step. I’m using Gutenberg, but added your embed code in a Classic editor block using “edit as HTML”. Nothing shows, however, in Preview or after Publishing. It’s just a blank space on the page under the title. Any idea how I can make this work? I love the idea of getting my PDF on the page without a plugin.
Rajkumar, it’s me again with an update: your code works perfectly. For some reason, it doesn’t in my Firefox. When I tried Chrome, it’s there! Not sure why this has happened, but it has nothing to do with your code!
Thanks for giving us a way to do this without a plugin!
Linda