PDFG Support

Hi @cuhkrain,

I’m sorry to disappoint you but the PDF Embedder does not have any download management functionality beyond providing a download point and tracking the number of downloads/views of the document. If you want to control access to the download, you would need a download management tool to handle that functionality for you (i.e. digital downloads, download manager, etc.)

Hi @woodypad,

The Classic edit > Add Media will automatically insert the PDF as the embedded viewer. If you only want a link to the PDF, there are two options to do this:

1. Use the WP File block which will insert a text link to the PDF. You can optionally enable the download button as well, or
2. Add a bit of PHP code to disable the automatic insertion of the shortcode. This will cause your PDFs to be added to the page as a text link by default. To embed a PDF in the viewer, you would need to manually enter the shortcode [pdf-embedder url=”path-to-pdf.pdf”] to initiate the viewer. (PHP code tutorial: https://wp-pdf.com/kb/stop-the-pdf-embedder-shortcode-being-inserted-into-posts-automatically/

Hi @craftbilt,

I’m sorry to disappoint you but the plugin does not support a sidebar navigation/thumbnail navigation. It will support a hyperlinked table of contents as part of the document (usually seen at the beginning of a document) but not as an independent part of the document.

Hi @clevelus,

You can hide the zoom buttons and associated text with a bit of CSS added to your child theme’s styles.css or the Appearance » Customize » Additional CSS:

/* HIDE ZOOM BUTTONS AND TEXT */ 
.pdfemb-zoomin, 
.pdfemb-zoomout, 
.pdfemb-zoom, 
.pdfemb-toolbar div:nth-of-type(2) {
     display: none; /* may need to add !important */ 
}

Hi @mbers,

We do have other customers using the PDF Embedder plugin successfully with LMS. However, you will need to use a slightly different method of embedding the PDF if the blocks editor is not present or the PDF Embedder block is prevented from being displayed in the menu.

Using the Classic Block, you can use the Add Media option to select your PDF and embed it in the lesson content (https://wp-pdf.com/kb/gutenberg-editor-and-pdf-embedder/)

You can also manually enter the shortcode [pdf-embedder url="path-to-pdf.pdf"] where the path-to-pdf.pdf would be replaced with your own copy/paste document URL.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to send an email to contact@wp-pdf.com as we may not see messages posted here to respond in a timely fashion.

Hi @quiztoon,

This sounds like a caching issue as in you have different caching rules for logged out users than those visitors that are logged in. Make sure that the scripts are not being handled differently for the two types of users. For more information on caching with the PDF Embedder plugin, please see our FAQ.

I do want to mention that I also looked at the page you provided the link to. You may have altered the page since posting this message but in the source code, I could not find an instance of the PDF Embedder code (most easily found by searching for “pdfemb”) and the document itself threw a Not Found on server error. If the document can not be navigated to, the PDF Embedder when in place, can not load it either.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to send an email to contact@wp-pdf.com as we may not see messages posted here to respond in a timely fashion.

Hi @melmoataz,

This error is most likely due to a caching conflict. Please see https://wp-pdf.com/kb/setting-up-fake-worker-failed-error-message/

Emma

Hi @chasls123,

It isn’t possible to open the viewer in the full-screen mode by default as this behaviour does require user input to initiate.

I think what might be useful to you would be creating a custom page template within your site’s theme. Creating a custom template would allow you to eliminate any sidebars, widgets, or other content that would normally be populated to the page. There are a couple of resources I can point you to that would be helpful:

• WordPress Child Themes: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
• Page Templates: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/
• Full Width Page Templates for Any Theme: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fullwidth-templates/

If you have any other questions, please feel free to send an email to contact@wp-pdf.com as we may not see messages posted here to respond in a timely fashion.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by PDFG Support. Reason: Fixed incorrect file path