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.

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This project provides a modal / popup block for the WordPress Gutenberg editor.
<ul>
<li>Multiple methods for triggering modal including button, text link, image link, external class, and page load.</li>
<li>User definable modal content using Gutenberg blocks, for example, image, paragraph etc. </li>
<li>Support for multiple modal window sizes.</li>
<li>Modal window transitions for fade, left, right, up down.</li>
<li>Manual trigger modal initialization by calling bodModal.initModal()</li>
<li>Custom events for before open, after open, before close, after close so custom code can be used.</li>
<li>Lots of customizable options including Trigger Button Label, Button Color, Trigger Text, Trigger Text Size, Trigger Image, Trigger Class, Modal Delay, Trigger Element Alignment, Overlay Background Color, Title Text Size, Title Font Color, Title Background Color, Title Padding, Border Radius.</li>
<li>Supports multiple modals on the same page.</li>
<li>ADA compliant.</li>
<li>Modal to modal links.</li>
<li>Multiple ways to close the modal.
<ul>
<li>Escape key</li>
<li>Close button ‘X’ in the top right of the screen.</li>
<li>Close button ‘X’ in the modal title.</li>
<li>Close button at the bottom on the modal content.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Uses create-guton-block for easy config.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Donations</h3>
If you like the plugin, consider a donation to support further development. <a href="https://paypal.me/SupportBodDev" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here</a>

Modal Guten Block

Practical and lightweight plugin. Well integrated. Good job. It would be nice to improve the interface for customization especially for the button. And a X button for closing at the top would be great. In general it works fine.

Simple to use, complete and lightweight


I think everything is almost perfect, it would be great if "everything was a little more clean and polished". Silly things like:




add hover color change when focusing edit fields (hard to tell how big the field is) -- for example the "block-editor-plain-text" input field should have more padding, square matching border radius and better font matching size



Missing option to "disable transition" visual effect



Beautiful Plugin


It does what it is supposed to do, easily configurable and I love that this is a separate plugin and not part of a collection of blocks. It keeps WordPress nice and lean.



It would be perfect if the color picker would use the regular Gutenberg color palette chooser :)


Love that this is a separate plugin and not part of a collection of blocks


I like this plugin. I've had zero problems. It does it's job and so far has just stayed out of the way. Thank you. I wish Wordfence wasn't so harsh to plugins like this...  I got this alert:



Medium Severity Problems:* The Plugin "Modal Guten Block" appears to be abandoned (updated October 3, 2023, tested to WP 6.3.7).



Maybe this could have a version bump just so it's "compatible" with WP 6.7 or 6.8? Then Wordfence would yell less often.  


Bump to WP 6.8 for Wordfence

This plugin provides a Gutenberg Modal / Popup Block.

PDF Gallery Viewer vs Modal Guten Block