k3davis

An additional note: If you’re running 2.5.15 and still unable to embed certain documents (especially PDF), please try loading them directly in Google Viewer to see if the problem is actually on Google’s end rather than the plugin. There do seem to be some problems arising with certain otherwise common looking documents with their latest update.

You can test your document against Google Viewer directly here:
https://docs.google.com/viewer

Fix some bugs, add more! 😉

Kevin

I haven’t investigated this at all with the new Google Viewer. By the looks of the class names they may be dynamically generated, which will be a pain in the rear. But again it’s too early to tell if this functionality can be restored. I apologize for the inconvenience.

I’m sorry I can’t be much more specific than that. You’re adding a normal CSS element to your theme. Your theme author could perhaps give you more specific guidance, but I can’t really support every theme individually. There is nothing unique or special about GDE in this respect.

Please review the announcement on GDE home page or on the home page for the plugin here on wordpress.org regarding a recent Google update that significantly changed GDE functionality unexpectedly.

Please review the announcement on GDE home page or on the home page for the plugin here on wordpress.org regarding a recent Google update that significantly changed GDE functionality unexpectedly.

You can control text styles via your theme’s style sheet, or if it has some kind of control panel it will often let you add individual styles that way. You want to assign your style to .gde-text like this:

.gde-text {
   color: #000;
}

This should make the text black. Replace the value of “color” with the color of your need. By default, GDE uses the default link style with your theme.

Hi Scott,

Based on the URL of the document you’re trying to embed it looks like you may be trying to load documents from localhost. If that is the case, check out item #1 in the FAQ which explains how GDE works – specifically the need for the document to be internet accessible (even if its location is kept private) for conversion purposes.

Thanks,

Kevin

Hello,

The message you’re describing is Google-generated and can’t be directly controlled by the plugin. The best solution is to try to identify its cause – does it happen occasionally on links that some other times work correctly? Your web server’s performance may be too low to serve the document in a timely fashion, or there may be network issues between you and Google’s datacenters. In these cases you can consider new hosting arrangements, or less intrusively storing your documents from a higher-availability location like Dropbox.

If the message occurs consistently it could mean that your document doesn’t exist at the location provided, is too large or borderline too large, or there are oddities about the way your web server is set up that prevent easy access to your document by Google’s document translation service.

I’m giving all the options I can think of here because you didn’t provide much in the way of background. Does the download link inside that message work, and if so, is that the part you really want to suppress? If so you can look into the secure document feature. It won’t prevent that message from appearing but will render the document not downloadable to the vast majority of people, including those who click the link in this error message.

Hope this gives you some leads, at least.

Kevin