{"id":20938,"date":"2021-03-01T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qodeinteractive.com\/magazine\/?p=20938"},"modified":"2022-02-17T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:46:25","slug":"best-wordpress-pdf-viewer-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qodeinteractive.com\/magazine\/best-wordpress-pdf-viewer-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Best PDF Viewer Plugins for WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PDFs have long been the preferred way of formatting documents, especially those containing multiple images combined with text. Especially, but not exclusively, PDFs are common in the corporate world, and for good reason: PDF readers have a clean interface, the documents themselves are digital-friendly, and they are not easy to edit. PDFs also see much use by the media, education professionals, e-book publishers, and many other businesses and service providers.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”28px”][vc_column_text]You can host any kind of file, PDF included, on your WordPress website, but you can\u2019t show them to your visitors by default, the way you could with an image or a video. To do that, you\u2019d need a plugin, and we have a whole list of those to choose from.
\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”28px”][vc_column_text]But would your website really benefit from a WordPress PDF viewer? Before we get into the list, let us discuss some of the instances that warrant the use of a PDF viewing plugin.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=”new-top-picks-banner”][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Why Use a WordPress PDF Viewer?<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]First of all, you may have an already formatted document, possibly a very large document<\/strong>. Why would you go through the trouble of reformatting it for your website, if you can just display it on a page<\/strong> so your visitors can view it there? An overlong document may also look bad as a blog post, but work just fine if embedded.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”28px”][vc_column_text]Also, PDF is a secure format<\/strong>. It is much more difficult to edit, and it can be made even more secure using passwords and other protections. So, if you don\u2019t want your visitors to be able to edit a document<\/strong> you\u2019d like to share with them, PDF is the way to go, and a plugin is how you deliver it to them for easy viewing.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”28px”][vc_column_text]PDF is not just difficult to tamper with \u2013 its contents are typically invisible to search engines<\/strong>. So, if you are running a WordPress website and if you want more control over how you distribute your content and prevent it from being crawled and indexed<\/strong>, while still making it accessible to normal website users, you can scarcely do better than use a WordPress PDF viewer plugin.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”28px”][vc_column_text]With that in mind, here are the plugins we will be discussing:
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