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Document Viewer – let visitors view files right in the browser

Document Viewer – let visitors view files right in the browser

Description

If you have Office documents on your website or blog that you want your readers to view even if they don’t have Office installed? Would you rather view a document before downloading it? To give your audience a better experience, try the Office Web Viewer.

Document Viewer embeds Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and HTML files directly into your posts and pages. Visitors read the file where it sits — no download, no Microsoft Office, no browser plugin.

The free version gives you a native Gutenberg block and a shortcode generator, two rendering engines (Google Doc Viewer and Microsoft Online Viewer) that you can switch per document, and full control over width and height in px or %.

The pro version adds cloud sources — pick a file straight out of Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive — a self-hosted Custom PDF Viewer built on PDF.js so your PDFs never leave your server, and a full content protection layer: block right-click, copy, save and print shortcuts, hide the download and full-screen buttons, and stop the document being popped out into a new tab.

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Some Benefits

  • Works perfectly in computers, tablets, and mobile phones.
  • You don’t need to convert Office files for the web (e.g., PDF, HTML).
  • Anyone can view Office files from your website or blog, even if they don’t have Office.

Document Viewer Free Features

Build & embed

  • Native Document Viewer Gutenberg block, with wide and full-width alignment support
  • Shortcode generator — build a document once under Office Viewer › Add New and paste [office_doc id="128"] into the Classic Editor, widgets, page builders or a theme template with do_shortcode()
  • Embed any file from the WordPress Media Library
  • Supported formats: Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx), PDF (.pdf) and HTML (.html)

Viewer engines

  • Google Doc Viewer — the best all-rounder, strong with PDFs
  • Microsoft Online Viewer — pixel-true Word, Excel and PowerPoint rendering
  • Choose the engine per document; no global lock-in and no re-uploading

Layout

  • Custom width and height in px or %
  • Responsive on desktop, tablet and mobile
  • Four grouped block settings panels: Document Source, Viewer Engine, Display & Dimensions, Security & Restrictions

Admin experience

  • Help & Demos dashboard with a quick-start guide, live demos and the changelog
  • Built-in help assistant on every plugin screen — works offline, no account required
  • Legacy documents and shortcodes from older versions are migrated automatically
  • Translation ready (.pot file included)

Document Viewer Pro Features

Cloud document sources

  • Choose a document from Google Drive with the native Drive picker
  • Choose a document from Dropbox with the Dropbox chooser
  • Choose a document from OneDrive
  • Cloud API Settings page to store your Dropbox App Key and Google API key, Client ID and Project Number once for the whole site

Custom PDF Viewer

  • Self-hosted PDF.js viewer — your PDF is rendered on your own server and never sent to a third-party service
  • Full PDF toolbar: zoom, page navigation, thumbnails and search inside the document

Content protection

  • Protect Content — disable right-click and block the Ctrl/Cmd + C, A, S and P shortcuts
  • Disable Pop-out — stop the document being opened in a new tab
  • Disable Full Screen — remove the full-screen expand control
  • Hide the download button inside the Microsoft viewer toolbar
  • Hide the full-screen button inside the Microsoft viewer toolbar

Viewer chrome

  • Show or hide the file name at the top of the viewer
  • Show or hide a download button at the top of the viewer

Support

  • Priority email support and a 7-day free trial on every Pro plan

User Feedback

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Impressively Stable

❛❛Nice wp plugin ever. I’ve use it for 4 years.❜❜

aircess

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Does the job well.

❛❛This plugin works fine❜❜

muhammadarooj

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Exactly What I Need

❛❛***I am a theatre director and I use my website to communicate with my performers and technical crews.

I wanted to SHOW them documents in situ as well as enable them to easily download them and, after looking at other solutions, this plugin is PERFECT for this.

I am delighted with it and cannot recommend it highly enough.***❜❜

jfortune

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How It Works

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Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

  • Document Viewer You can Embed Microsoft Word, Excel And Powerpodint File in wordpress Using 'Document Viewer for Office' Plugin.

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

  1. Upload plugin-directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Use shortcode in page, post or in widgets.
  4. ` in your templates

FAQ

Which type of document can I embed using that plugin?

Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, plus PDF and HTML files.

What should be the file extension to work perfectly with that plugin?

‘.doc’, ‘.docx’, ‘.xls’, ‘.xlsx’, ‘.ppt’, ‘.pptx’, ‘.pdf’ and ‘.html’

Which viewer engine should I choose?

Use Microsoft Online Viewer for Word, Excel and PowerPoint — it keeps the original fonts, tables and slide layouts. Use Google Doc Viewer for PDFs and mixed libraries. The pro-only Custom PDF Viewer is for PDFs you do not want sent to any third-party service; it renders on your own server with PDF.js.

Do I need an API key?

Not for the free version — the Media Library, Google Doc Viewer and Microsoft Online Viewer all work out of the box. API keys are only needed for the pro cloud sources (Dropbox App Key for Dropbox, and a Google API key, Client ID and Project Number for Google Drive). You enter them once under Office Viewer › Cloud API Settings.

Can I stop visitors downloading or copying the document?

Yes, in the pro version. Turn on Protect Content to disable right-click and the Ctrl/Cmd + C, A, S and P shortcuts, Disable Pop-out to stop the file opening in a new tab, Disable Full Screen to remove the expand control, and hide the download and full-screen buttons inside the Microsoft viewer toolbar.

I Would like to support Your Project what is the best way to support?

Thanks for your interest. You can donate any amount by visiting Here

Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin?

Please report security bugs found in the source code of the Document Viewer for Office plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.

Reviews

March 9, 2026 1 reply
Beware, this pluging uses a very common marketing methode for WordPress plugins. The paiid version loses all the Premium feature at the moment you are not having an active subscription. I.e, you are not just stopped from receiving updates, you just thrown back to the basic version. Additionally, there are many non constant display issues related to scrolling the document inside the infrare, tool bar changes it’s look spontaneously, and there is no document preview ahown on mobile, but just a button to open the file in new window.
October 9, 2022
I am a theatre director and I use my website to communicate with my performers and technical crews. I wanted to SHOW them documents in situ as well as enable them to easily download them and, after looking at other solutions, this plugin is PERFECT for this. I am delighted with it and cannot recommend it highly enough.
August 26, 2022
I needed to be able to embed externally hosted PDF documents into my wordpress posts and pages while preserving the embedded clickable links in those documents. This plugin does what I need, including offering viewers the ability to download the document. five stars
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Contributors & Developers

“Document Viewer – let visitors view files right in the browser” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

2.4.2 – 11 August, 2026

  • Security: Updated Freemius SDK dependency to the latest version to patch identified vulnerabilities and ensure robust plugin security.

2.4.1 – 15 June, 2026

  • Update: Redesigned and integrated the new standardized help & demos admin dashboard.

2.4.0 – 3 June, 2026

  • New: Added 4 dedicated, modular settings panels (DocumentSource, ViewerEngine, DisplayDimensions, SecurityRestrictions) to group Gutenberg settings.
  • New: Added custom SVG icons inside the titles of the block settings panels.
  • Update: Redesigned Gutenberg block settings field titles to use friendly, concise terms for non-technical users.
  • Update: Consolidated admin assets enqueuing into a single class loader.
  • Update: Standardized core classes under includes/core/ and helper files under lowercase includes/helper/ to ensure namespace consistency.
  • Improvement: Integrated Composer autoloading to boot and resolve PHP dependencies dynamically.
  • Improvement: Unified the legacy shortcode rendering pipeline to run through the Gutenberg block rendering engine via the native render_block() API.
  • Improvement: Replaced the block settings TabPanel with separate, sequential settings panels.
  • Improvement: Applied a premium aesthetic theme color (#f1fdfe) for settings panel backgrounds and matching blue (#226df5) for panel header icons.
  • Improvement: Added detailed file format descriptions to simplify the document selector experience.
  • Improvement: Added a fixed height and smooth fade-in transition for the Upload Documents editor UI to prevent layout jumping on tab change.
  • Improvement: Reorganized metabox fields into two clean tabbed sections: “Document Settings” and “Security & Restrictions”.
  • Fix: Resolved fatal error during plugins_loaded hook by replacing query loops with safe get_posts() in ImportMeta class.
  • Fix: Resolved cross-origin iframe console errors in block editor under content protection mode.
  • Fix: Resolved pop-out overlay alignment and responsiveness by using CSS container queries.
  • Fix: Resolved “Protect Content” text selection and keyboard shortcuts bypasses (Ctrl/Cmd + C, A, S, P).
  • Fix: Resolved “Disable Full Screen” and pop-out overlay styles targeting mismatches.
  • Fix: Resolved missing i18n translation wrappers on “Protect Content” toggle labels.

2.3.3 – 8 November, 2025

  • Updated Block – Editor upload options

2.3.2 – 10 October, 2025

  • Add Modern Dashboard and improved.

2.3.1 – 12 July, 2025

  • Fixed issues

2.3.0 – 10 May, 2025

  • Fixed textdomain issue & add powerfull Gutenberg block

2.2.10 – 29 Jan, 2025

  • Update: WordPress SDK

2.2.9 – 04/07/2024

  • Update: WordPress SDK

2.2.7

  • Update Freemius WordPress SDK

2.2.5

  • Update Freemius WordPress SDK

2.2.4

  • Fixed Height issue

2.2.3

  • Fixed Security issue
  • Imporved Performance

2.0.9

  • PDF viewer support
  • Improved performance

1.1

  • Added doc management screen
  • Improved performance.
  • Gutenberg block support

1.0

  • Initial Release