Henry Holtgeerts

The simple, no-frills block to easily embed PDF files on your WordPress site. 100% free, fully responsive and built for the Gutenberg Editor.
Quickly add PDFs from your media library, or paste a URL. This PDF Block is inspired by the Image Block for Gutenberg, and maintains tremendous ease of use.
Options: 
– Change PDF URL (from Media Library, or copy/paste one manually) 
– Show or Hide PDF toolbar 
– Control PDF alignment 
– Adjust PDF height
Compatibility: 
– Fully responsive 
– Works fine on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge and IE11 
– Does not require Javascript for users to see PDFs
This PDF Block takes advantage of browser’s native support of PDFs, allowing users to view and interact with your PDFs without the need for any Javascript.

PDF Block

The simple, no-frills block to easily embed PDF files on your WordPress site.

dFactory

<a href="http://www.dfactory.co/products/download-attachments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Download Attachments</a> is a new approach to managing downloads in WordPress. Instead of bloated interface it enables simple, drag & drop and AJAX driven metabox where you can insert and manage your Media Library files and automatically or manually display them after, before or inside posts content.
For more information, check out plugin page at <a href="http://www.dfactory.co/" rel="nofollow ugc">dFactory</a> site.
<h4>Features include:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatic or manual download links display</li>
<li>Select post types where Download Attachments should be used</li>
<li>Select list, table or sortable, dynamic table display style</li>
<li>Downloads count</li>
<li>Advanced attachments sorting</li>
<li>Most Downloaded Attachments widget</li>
<li>Drag & drop files ordering</li>
<li>Based on Media Library attachments</li>
<li>Easy customisation of Frontend & Backend display</li>
<li>Pretty URLs for download links</li>
<li>Encrypt URLs by default</li>
<li>Customizable tamplates engine</li>
<li>Custom download slug</li>
<li>Custom permission for metabox display</li>
<li>Option to exclude selected attachments from display</li>
<li>Option to select from all Media Library files or only those attached to a post</li>
<li>2 shortcodes</li>
<li>5 functions and multiple filter hooks for developers</li>
<li>Option to use attachment caption and/or description for download links description</li>
<li>Compatible with WPML & Polylang</li>
<li>.pot file for translations included</li>
</ul>
<h4>Get involved</h4>
Feel free to contribute to the source code on the <a href="https://github.com/dfactoryplugins" rel="nofollow ugc">dFactory GitHub Repository</a>.

Download Attachments

Download Attachments is a new approach to managing downloads in WordPress. It allows you to easily add and display download links in any post or page.

PDF Block vs Download Attachments