Sergio Comella

PDF Gallery Viewer allows you to easily embed PDF galleries with live previews. It uses PDF.js to render the first page of each PDF directly in the browser, without relying on server-side libraries like Imagick. Each item includes a customizable title and a “View” button that opens the PDF in a modal viewer.
The layout is responsive and adapts from a multi-column grid to a single-column stack on smaller screens.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Live thumbnail of first PDF page (via PDF.js)</li>
<li>Responsive layouts (Grid, List, or Slider)</li>
<li>Modal viewer with zoom, navigation, and download</li>
<li>Gutenberg block with layout selector and drag-and-drop file integration</li>
<li>Tooltip + truncation for long titles</li>
<li>Dynamic shortcode generation by category, tag, or post</li>
<li>Sorting UI (Title / Filename / Manual drag & drop)</li>
<li>Manual ordering with FIFO/LIFO behavior for newly added items</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
Basic usage:
[pdf_gallery url=”https://example.com/doc.pdf” title=”Document Title”]
Multiple items in a container:
[pdf_gallery_container layout=”grid”] 
[pdf_gallery url=”…” title=”…”] 
[pdf_gallery url=”…” title=”…”] 
[/pdf_gallery_container]
Sorting / ordering:
[pdf_gallery_container layout=”grid” order_by=”title” order=”asc” ui=”1″] 
… 
[/pdf_gallery_container]
Manual ordering (UI drag & drop) with FIFO/LIFO for newly added items:
[pdf_gallery_container id=”my-gallery” layout=”grid” order_by=”manual” manual_mode=”fifo” ui=”1″] 
… 
[/pdf_gallery_container]
IMPORTANT: Manual ordering is managed by admins and saved server-side (post meta) so the order is the same for all visitors. 
For reliable persistence, always set a stable id=”…” on each container (the Gutenberg block does this automatically).
Dynamic by category:
[pdf_gallery_container category=”brochures” layout=”slider”]

PDF Gallery Viewer

A simple plugin that creates a responsive PDF gallery with live thumbnail previews and a modal PDF viewer.

Rolf Allard van Hagen

Erick Danzer

Firelight

NEWS: Easy Fancybox is now Firelight Lightbox. <a href="https://firelightwp.com/big-news-easy-fancybox-is-now-firelight-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read about it here.</a>
Firelight Lightbox is the most popular lighbox plugin for WordPress, active on over 200,000 WordPress installations. It adds a lightweight and flexible lightbox for viewing images, video, and other media on your website.
After activation, links to images, galleries, videos, pdfs, maps, modals, etc, will open in a lightbox. Settings will be under ‘Lightbox’ on your main admin menu.
QUICK LIGHTBOX DEMOS
Demos for images, videos, PDFs, maps, and modals/popups:
<a href="https://firelightwp.com/free-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Free Lightbox Demo</a> 
<a href="https://firelightwp.com/pro-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Lightbox Demo – Light Theme</a> 
<a href="https://firelightwp.com/pro-lightbox-dark/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Lightbox Demo – Dark Theme</a>
FREE LIGHTBOX FEATURES 
– Automatic detection of images 
– Automatic detection of galleries 
– Customize options for Lightbox appearance, style, and behavior 
– Opens all common image formats including webp and svg 
– Opens WordPress core galleries 
– Opens videos from Youtube, Vimeo, and Dailmotion 
– Opens PDF files (embed with object tag, iframe, external Google Docs Viewer) 
– Opens NextGEN galleries (<a href="https://firelightwp.com/wordpress-lightbox-docs/nextgen-gallery-and-easy-fancybox/" rel="nofollow ugc">instructions</a>) 
– Opens content from external web pages (<a href="https://firelightwp.com/wordpress-lightbox-docs/#web-pages" rel="nofollow ugc">instructions</a>) 
– Create easy modals and popup boxes (<a href="https://firelightwp.com/wordpress-lightbox-docs/#modal-window" rel="nofollow ugc">instructions</a>) 
– Open image maps (<a href="https://firelightwp.com/wordpress-lightbox-docs/image-maps-and-easy-fancybox/" rel="nofollow ugc">instructions</a>) 
– Open lightbox from WordPress menu items (<a href="https://firelightwp.com/wordpress-lightbox-docs/#menu-item-open" rel="nofollow ugc">instructions</a>) 
– Support for Jetpack Infinite Scroll 
– Support for WordPress Multsite (see Installation instructions)
Links: 
-> <a href="https://firelightwp.com/free-lightbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demos</a> 
-> <a href="https://firelightwp.com/wordpress-lightbox-docs" rel="nofollow ugc">Docs</a> 
-> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-fancybox" rel="ugc">Free Support</a>
PRO LIGHTBOX FEATURES
Firelight Lightbox Pro is an extension for this lightbox plugin that offers: 
– Dozens of Pro features for free lightboxes (Fancybox Legacy, Classic, V2) 
– Priority support direct from developers 
– New and Powerful Pro Lighbox based on Fancybox 5, including: 
– Beautiful, modern full-browser and full-screen ligthbox 
– 100+ customizations options 
– Thumbnails within the lightbox 
– Social sharing for images 
– Link direct to images in the lightbox 
– “Download image” button 
– Toolbar with controls for thumbnails, social sharing, zoom, slideshow, etc 
– Open videos 
– Open PDFs 
– Open popups 
– Open inline content and iframes 
– Open Google maps 
– NextGEN Gallery integration 
– Elementor integration 
– Perfect on mobile devices 
– Optimized lightbox speed
-> <a href="https://firelightwp.com/pro-lightbox" rel="nofollow ugc">VIEW PRO LIGHTBOX DEMOS</a> 
-> <a href="https://firelightwp.com/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">GET PRO SUPPORT</a>
GDPR / EU Privacy
This plugin does not collect any data or set any browser cookies. The PRO version offers an option to disable the automatic popup after the first visit, which needs a browser cookie. This cookie stores the visitors first website visit timestamp and path on the client side. It is not shared nor is any data stored server side or elsewhere.
<h4>Contribute</h4>
If you’re happy with this plugin, please consider writing a quick <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-fancybox/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">rating</a>, helping others in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-fancybox" rel="ugc">forum</a>, or <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/easy-fancybox/" rel="nofollow ugc">translating</a>.
<h4>Known conflicts & issues</h4>
See <a href="https://firelightwp.com/wordpress-lightbox-docs/troubleshooting-easy-fancybox/" rel="nofollow ugc">Firelight Lightbox Troubleshooting</a>.

Firelight Lightbox


This plugin has been revived by an excellent developer, with regular updates, new features and active support!


Excellent new developer


The title says it all really. Thanks for the plugin !


Simple, easy, it just works

Nice plugin!


Nice way to add a little pop for folks who click on website photos to enlarge them.


Easy and works

Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups.

PDF Gallery Viewer vs Firelight Lightbox