k3davis

Thanks, I understand what you mean better now. Something like this could certainly be done, but it isn’t the way the plugin is designed to work at this point. Profiles are just collections of viewer settings, intended to make every aspect of the viewer configurable while keeping the shortcodes actually short. There’s no sense of user management in the plugin.

There may be another plugin that does uploads in a similar manner (you mentioned Nextgen, as an example). The code to both plugins is open source and freely available, so with a little work you could roll your own. I probably wouldn’t do this with GDE as that’s not really its purpose, unless there was a real demand for it.

Sorry to disappoint, but thanks for helping me understand what you’re looking for.

Kevin

I’m not 100% sure I understand what you’re asking for, but it sounds like maybe you want to be able to insert a shortcode from the media library and select a specific profile? This is supported in WP 3.4.x but not in 3.5, which will only insert the basic shortcode from the media library (because of the extensive and so far rather undocumented changes going on in media management in 3.5).

The shortcode does let you choose a profile, but it won’t be inserted automatically based on the type of file or where/how you upload it. You have to upload it and either insert the shortcode from the media library or use the visual editor button to select it.

Hi yair,

You can do #2 by specifying your own CSS file. Find the div where the toolbar is located and set it in CSS to float to the right. If you need specific help with this, please send me a message via email or the support form.

#1 is still not possible at this time. I am “cheating” by loading the full Google Drive version of the viewer in the full screen view, and stripping out other parts of the page. If I do this on the embedded view, the document sizing is badly messed up. The print feature is experimental until I can come up with a better solution.

Thanks,

Kevin

Hi there,

I’ve tried that page on Firefox, Chrome, and IE9 (I’m on a PC…) and it works normally in all of them. Thanks for emptying cache; that’s the right place to start. Be sure that you’re also clearing cache for sessions and apps. These settings vary depending on the browser and I don’t have a comprehensive list. Clearing cache is unfortunately not as straightforward as it once was, with all the options now available.

You may also want to make sure you’ve completely logged in or completely logged out of any Google account in the browser. A Google account isn’t necessary, but a “stale” login may interfere.

Hope that helps.

Kevin

Thanks for your kind comments. 😉

The document conversion is handled by Google Docs Viewer (hence the plugin’s name). If you’re not satisfied with the quality, your only recourse at present is to use something else.

Great, glad it worked out.

Here’s a suggestion, dcraggs, if you are OK using the plugin editor in WordPress (or manually editing one of the plugin files via FTP, etc.):

Open the functions.php file in the root directory of the plugin, usually at wp-content/plugins/google-document-embedder.

Find this line of code in the gde_validate_file function (on line 128 of the current release version):

if ( isset( $result['code'] ) && $result['code'] !== 200 ) {

and change it to read

if ( isset( $result['code'] ) && $result['code'] != 200 ) {

Notice only the comparison operator changed. It seems some servers return an integer and some a string for the HTTP status code, so my check there may be too precise.

If you don’t want to do this, you can always just do what the message suggests… turn off error checking (“check for errors before loading viewer” on the Advanced tab).

Thanks.