itthinx

<p><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/plugins/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> provides sound structures and tools to maintain a Documentation Management System based on WordPress.</p>
<p>Leveraging WordPress’ framework and internal structures, the system provides a completely new section to manage documents independently from normal posts or pages.</p>
<p>Documents are complemented by their dedicated document categories and document tags, which allows to keep the documentation structures separate from the more blog-oriented posts or CMS-like pages.</p>
<p>It can be used to build a dedicated documentation site, a subsite for documentation in a multisite network or other creative deployments.</p>
<p>See our <a href="https://docs.itthinx.com" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation portal</a> for an example where we use the system to maintain a considerable amount of documentation for our tools.</p>
<p>Simple to use, yet powerful to maintain even thousands of documentation pages.</p>
<p>Documents can be attached to products in WooCommerce using <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/woocommerce-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Documentation</a>.</p>
<h3>Widgets</h3>
<p>The plugin provides several widgets that are used to display document links:</p>
<ul>
<li>Document Hierarchy : facilitates navigating and viewing the document hierarchy</li>
<li>Document Children : displays links to children of documents</li>
<li>Documents : to display sets of document links</li>
<li>Document Categories : to display links to document categories</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<p>The following shortcodes are available:</p>
<ul>
<li>[documentation_documents] Lists documents, also useful to list documents in a category.</li>
<li>[documentation_categories] Renders a list of links to the document categories.</li>
<li>[documentation_hierarchy] Provides a means to navigate the documentation structure, equivalent to the Document Hierarchy widget.</li>
<li>[documentation_list_children] Lists the children of a document like the Document Children widget.</li>
<li>[documentation_search_form] Renders a dynamic search form. Use <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-live/" rel="ugc">Search Live</a> for a more flexible search form.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Recommended Useful Additions</h3>
<p>You should have a look at these tools. They will help you get the most out of this Documentation Management System.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/woocommerce-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Documentation</a> This extension for WooCommerce and the Documentation plugin for WordPress allows to link documentation pages to products and display them automatically on the product pages.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/" rel="ugc">Groups</a> Groups is designed as an efficient, powerful and flexible solution for group-oriented memberships and content access control. Use it to control who can view documents and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-restrict-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Restrict Categories</a> An extension based on Groups, provides access restrictions for categories and tags, custom post types and taxonomies. Very useful to restrict whole sets of documents based on their document categories or tags.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-live/" rel="ugc">Search Live</a> Search Live supplies effective integrated live search facilities and advanced search features. Makes it really easy to find the desired documents.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/widgets-control/" rel="ugc">Widgets Control</a> Widgets Control is a toolbox that features visibility management for all widgets, sidebars, sections of content and content blocks. This is very useful to show content and widgets in context.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/widgets-control-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widgets Control Pro</a> Widgets Control Pro is the advanced version of the Widgets Control toolbox that features visibility management for all widgets, sidebars, sections of content and content blocks. With its additional features, it is even more useful to show document-specific content and widgets, including the options to show widgets on documents and related pages only.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/decent-comments/" rel="ugc">Decent Comments</a> Decent Comments shows what people say. If you want to show comments along with their author’s avatars and an excerpt of their comment, then this is the right plugin for you. Use it to show comments posted on documents only or including them.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/open-graph-protocol-framework/" rel="ugc">Open Graph Protocol Framework</a> The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to allow any web page to have the same functionality as any other object on Facebook. This will automate the process of adding basic and optional metadata to documents.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>Please refer to the <a href="https://docs.itthinx.com/document/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> pages for details.<br />
The site uses the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/documentation/" rel="ugc">Documentation</a> plugin and is a good example of deployment, with an extensive set of documentation sections and pages.</p>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
<p>Feedback is welcome!</p>
<p>If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/plugins/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation plugin page</a>.</p>
<p>Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a <em>lot</em> of work into providing you with free quality plugins! Please appreciate that and help with your feedback. Thanks!</p>
<h4>Twitter</h4>
<p>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/itthinx" rel="nofollow ugc">@itthinx</a> on Twitter for updates on this and other plugins.</p>


Documentation

This has worked really well on my site - thank you for developing it!
Dan



Great plugin, thank you!

Syed Balkhi

Jared Atchison

Slava Abakumov

David Bisset

Nathan Singh

Chris Kelley

LionSher Technologies

<p>Upload PDF files and embed them directly into your site’s posts and pages. It works as simple as adding images! Your PDF files will be automatically sized to their natural size and shape. You can also specify a width and the correct height will be calculated automatically. Our PDF Embedder plugin is fully responsive, so the embedded PDF will also look perfect, on any device. Additionally, the pdf embedder will automatically resize whenever the browser dimensions change.</p>
<p>The plugin has a unique method for embedding PDF files with the immense flexibility over the appearance of your document.</p>
<p>The PDF viewer has Next and Previous buttons to navigate the document, and zoom buttons if some areas of a PDF file are too small for your screen.</p>
<p>Your PDF files are embedded within your existing WordPress pages so we have full control over appearance, and all Javascript and other files are served by your own server (not by Google or any other third-party who may not be able to guarantee their own reliability). This means your PDF files will load fast, without any speed penalty.</p>
<p>Other PDF embedder plugins insert the PDF into an ‘iframe’ which means they do not get the flexibility over sizing. Ours does not and that is an incredible benefit to the overall viewing experience across all devices.</p>
<p>In the free plugin, there is no button for users to download the PDF, but download options are available in the Premium versions along with other awesome features.</p>
<p>Another Premium feature are Hyperlinks in your PDF being clickable. Links in the free plugin cannot be clicked.</p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Once installed and Activated, click Add Media from any page or post, just like adding an image, but drag and drop a PDF file instead.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>In the Classic Editor when you insert into your post, it will appear in the editor as a ‘shortcode’ as follows:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>[pdf-embedder url="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Plan-Summary.pdf"]</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>You can change the default appearance – e.g. width, and toolbar position/appearance through <strong>Settings -> PDF Embedder</strong> and also shortcode or block attributes.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>To override your site-wide defaults on an individual embed, see the <a href="https://wp-pdf.com/free-instructions/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Instructions</a> for information about sizing options plus other ways to customize the shortcodes.</p>
<h4>Premium Features</h4>
<p>Features available in the PDF Embedder Premium versions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Download button in the toolbar</li>
<li>Continuous scroll between pages</li>
<li>Hyperlinks are fully functional</li>
<li>Full screen mode</li>
<li>Edit page number to jump straight to page</li>
<li>Track number of downloads and views</li>
<li>Mobile-friendly</li>
<li>Secure option – difficult to download original PDF</li>
<li>Removes wp-pdf.com branding</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>See <a href="https://wp-pdf.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-pdf.com</a> for details!</strong></p>
<h4>Mobile-friendly embedding using PDF Embedder Premium</h4>
<p>The free version will work on most mobile browsers, but cannot position the document entirely within the screen.</p>
<p>Our <strong>PDF Embedder Premium</strong> plugin solves this problem with an intelligent ‘full screen’ mode.</p>
<p>When the document is smaller than a certain width, the document displays only as a ‘thumbnail’ with a large ‘View in Full Screen’ button for the user to click when they want to study your document.</p>
<p>This opens up the document so it has the full focus of the mobile browser, and the user can move about the document without hitting other parts of the web page by mistake. Viewers can then Click Exit to return to the regular page.</p>
<p>The user can also swipe continuously between all pages of the PDF which is more natural than clicking the navigation buttons to navigate.</p>
<p>See our site <a href="https://wp-pdf.com/premium/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-pdf.com</a> for more details and purchase options.</p>
<h4>Protect your PDFs with our premium document embedder version</h4>
<p>Our <strong>PDF Embedder Premium</strong> plugin on its Pro plan provides the same simple but elegant viewer as the Basic version, with the added protection that it is difficult for users to download or print the original PDF document.</p>
<p>This means that your PDF is unlikely to be shared outside your site where you have no control over who views, prints, or shares it.</p>
<p>Optionally, add a watermark containing any text, including the logged in user’s name or email address to discourage sharing of screenshots.</p>
<p>See our site <a href="https://wp-pdf.com/secure/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-pdf.com</a> for more details and purchase options.</p>
<h4>PDF Thumbnails</h4>
<p>Our <strong>PDF Thumbnails</strong> plugin automatically generates fixed image versions of all PDF files in your Media Library, to use on your site as you wish.</p>
<p>You can use them as featured images in posts containing an embedded version of the PDF, or as a visual clickable link to download the PDF directly.<br />
It also displays the thumbnail as the “icon” for the PDF in the Media Library, making it easy for authors to locate the PDFs they need to insert in a post.</p>
<p>See our site <a href="https://wp-pdf.com/thumbnails/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteplugin" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-pdf.com/thumbnails/</a> for more details and purchase options.</p>
<p>With thanks to the Mozilla team for developing the underlying <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js" rel="nofollow ugc">pdf.js</a> technology used by this PDF documents viewer plugin.</p>


PDF Embedder

Great Plugin


Looks good but a couple pages of a perfectly valid PDF just come up blank. The same file works fine in Acrobat etc. and with the default Wordpress PDF embedder (which I think relies on the browser). So it didn't work for me. Maybe it will work for you.


Nope

Great plugin


This is one of those lovely plugins which does the job advertised, clearly and efficiently, without getting in its own way with feature creep. 


Clean, clear, and performant


Plugin caused all pages to reload and then crash.  Replaced with another plugin that does not cause this error.


Does not work on mobile


Super easy to install and use. Just works. 


Just works

Seamlessly embed PDFs into your content, with customizations and intelligent responsive resizing, and no third-party services or iframes.

Documentation vs PDF Embedder