GS Only PDF Preview

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1. ★★★★★ Marty

   3.2y ago

   Helpful for getting around some modern configuration issues with imagick, php, and some server setups.

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2. ★★★★★ seseschneider

   3.7y ago

   Works perfectly on v6

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3. ★★★★★ Clare Parkinson

   5.3y ago

   Sometime in March 2021 my site stopped generating PDF thumbnails automatically. It seems like a bug in WP. I installed this plugin on WP 5.7.1 and now the PDF thumbnails are automatically generated on newly uploaded PDFs. There’s also an option to generate thumbnails of the PDFs that didn’t have them. This seems to be a little glitchy – my site is hosted on Pantheon, and sometimes I saw an error “unable to generate PDF preview”, but after clearing the caches and clicking a few times, I got all my old PDF images regenerated. Great workaround, completely solves my problem. This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Clare Parkinson.

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4. ★★★★★ Exo

   5.7y ago

   AWESOME PLUGIN! FYI: WP has a bug with PDFs, if you upload a PDF to WordPress that does not have a background (transparent), WP reverts to black. Crazy. There’s a whole discussion about it elsewhere can I could not find a fix for hundreds of PDF’s on a site I had. This plugin not only fixes that but with 1-click and replaces the dodgy original WP thumbnails! For those that uploaded PDF’s to older versions of WP before it made thumbnails, annoyingly this plugin shows an error, but ignore it as it still creates new thumbs. 5-star plugin.

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5. ★★★★★ Jordy Meow

   6.1y ago

   There is a server on which I can’t install ImageMagick but where there is Ghostscript. Thanks to this plugin, it was possible to generate thumbnails for the PDFs in the Media Library. The plugin probably needs to be checked, as I got the error “Failed to generate the PDF preview”, even though… it worked 🙂

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6. ★★★★★ denn1947

   6.5y ago

   This plugin finally solved my PDF thumbnail issue. Ty so much.

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7. ★★★★★ o2xav

   7.8y ago

   Thank you, your plugin fixed my PDF preview issue, although imagick, imagemagick and GS are installed and enabled on the host (php 7.2 @ plesk 17.8.11 @ ubuntu 14.04), PDF preview generation stopped working on all WP instances for some reason, and i had no idea where to start looking. Now it is working !

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8. ★★★★★ Benjamin Pick

   9.4y ago

   With this plugin, 1&1 is able to generate the PDF thumbnails. Thank you!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-06-05 2K+ → 1K+ down after 2 days in tier
2. 2026-06-03 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-06-02 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2026-06-01 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-05-31 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2026-05-30 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2026-05-29 2K+ → 1K+ down after 2 days in tier
8. 2026-05-27 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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• PDF Embedder – PDF Viewer & Embed PDF Files for WordPress 300K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• Gravity PDF 20K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag B
• PDF Poster – let visitors read PDFs without leaving the page 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• PDF.js Viewer 20K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A
• Embed PDF Viewer 20K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A

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GS Only PDF Preview: 1K+ active installs, 5.0★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/gs-only-pdf-preview