PDF Viewer Block for Gutenberg

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ revanslacey

   1.1y ago

   The presentation is not in the preview but shows landscape presentations just fine and scales to 100% – unlike any of the other ones I tried.

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2. ★★★★★ Senri Miura

   1.2y ago

   It works without any problems on smartphones. It’s great that it’s highly functional yet simple and easy to use.However, if I may be greedy, I would like to be able to set default values ​​for height, etc. in the plugin settings screen.Also, I would like to be able to check the media file names of blocks embedded within blocks. This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Senri Miura. This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Senri Miura.

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3. ★★★★★ Kerfred

   5.2y ago

   Very easy to install and to use. No need to configure anything. And it works out of the box.

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4. ★★★★★ whdyer

   5.4y ago

   A great block for PDF display but the block is incompatible with the current Microsoft edge browser and returns a false phishing warning page instead of PDF content. Works great in current Chrome browser. Will update to 5 stars when Edge is again supported properly.

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5. ★★★★★ claumigue

   6.4y ago

   El mejor visor de pdf con todas las opciones incorporadas, responsive , un bloque muy sencillo de usar que no defrauda. This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by claumigue.

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6. ★★★★★ leftezi

   6.4y ago

   Excellent! Avesome! Works like a charm!

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7. ★★★★★ kccafe

   6.7y ago

   This plugin does EXACTLY what I was wanting to do in terms of displaying PDF documents on my site, and I was willing to switch from the “classic” editor to Gutenberg because of it. Keep up the good work!

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8. ★★★★★ jdaviescoates

   6.9y ago

   This plugin is currently the best way to embed PDFs into posts/ pages etc. It has a simple block which just works. The only thing I’d say is that it’d be nice if it also displayed the embedded PDFs in the edit view too (like this one does https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-pdf-viewer/ but that one also has an issue, see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/uploading-from-within-block-doesnt-work/ ) (that issue now resolved so given that plugin 5 stars and downgraded this to 4 stars to reflect the fact Embed PDF viewer is not my favourite plugin for doing this) Actually, this plugin works a lot better on mobiles than Embed PDF viewer, and so this my favourite again so upped this back to 5 stars 🙂 I’d still like to see the PDF embed in edit view in this plugin too though. This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by jdaviescoates. This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by jdaviescoates. This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by jdaviescoates. This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by jdaviescoates.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.1 Performances: Enqueue admin assets only when showing the block editor screen. 1.1
2. — Version 1.0.1 Fix XSS security vulnerability. Thanks @wpscan who responsively disclosed the issue. 1.0.1
3. — Version 1.0 Enqueue scripts and styles only when the block is displayed for better performance and Google Core Web Vitals compliance. 1.0
4. — Version 0.2 Declare support for WordPress 5.5 and Block Directory. 0.2
5. — Version 0.1 Plugin initial commit. Works fine 🙂 0.1

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.4 Gutenberg PDF Viewer Block <= 1.0 - Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2021-09-20 CVE-2021-24760 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 1.0.1 Patched in 1.0.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8.1

Translated into 6 languages, 4 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2024-08-06 9K+ → 10K+ up after 196 days in tier
2. 2024-01-23 8K+ → 9K+ up after 238 days in tier
3. 2023-05-30 7K+ → 8K+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2023-05-29 8K+ → 7K+ down after 2 days in tier
5. 2023-05-27 7K+ → 8K+ up after 134 days in tier
6. 2023-01-13 6K+ → 7K+ up

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).

• S Scribd Doc Embedder 200+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D
• PDF.js Viewer 20K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• Embed PDF Viewer 20K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• PDF Smart Viewer for Elementor 1K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags C
• Simple Ebook Viewer 300+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
• KindPixels PDF Gallery – Turn Files into Clean Galleries 30+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B

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PDF Viewer Block for Gutenberg: 10K+ active installs, 4.8★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/pdf-viewer-block