Embed Any Document

Contributors: awsmin
Tags: embed documents, upload pdf, embed ppt, document viewer, pdf viewer, pdf viewer plugin, display pdf, embed pdf, embed pdf in wordpress, word, word viewer, word document, embed word, word plugin, doc, doc viewer, docx, docx viewer, excel, excel plugin, xls, xlsx, spreadsheet, embed spreadsheet, powerpoint, powerpoint viewer, ppt, ppt viewer, pptx, image viewer
Author URI: http://awsm.in
Requires at least: 3.5
Tested up to: 5.4
Stable tag: 2.5.0
License: GPLv2

Easiest way to upload and display PDF, MS Office and more documents on your WordPress website using Google Docs Viewer or Microsoft Office Online.

Summary

Seamlessly embed and display PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on your WordPress website.

Description

Embed Any Document WordPress plugin lets you upload and embed your documents easily in your WordPress website without any additional browser plugins like Flash or Acrobat reader. The plugin lets you choose between Google Docs Viewer and Microsoft Office Online to display your documents.

Live Demo

Supported file types

• Microsoft Word (docx, docm, dotm, dotx)
• Microsoft Excel (xlsx, xlsb, xls, xlsm)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (pptx, ppsx, ppt, pps, pptm, potm, ppam, potx, ppsm)
• Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)
• Text files (txt)
• TIFF Images (tif, tiff)
• Adobe Illustrator (ai)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (svg)

Key Benefits of Embed Any Document WordPress plugin

1. Easy to Upload and Embed. Embed Any Document is integrated seamlessly into the post editor. With a click of ‘Add Document’ button it lets you upload documents directly into media library and embed them.

2. No 3rd party plugin needed. The plugin uses Google Docs Viewer and Microsoft Office Online’s services to display the documents in your website. You will not require any additional browser plugins to view the documents and you can expect maximum compatibility for your documents.

3. Option to choose the viewer. You can choose between Google Docs Viewer and Microsoft Office Online to display your document. If one service is down, you can switch to another easily.

4. Cross-browser compatibility. The viewers are mobile-ready and cross-browser compatible.

5. Clean and Minimal UI. Embed Any Document comes with a clean and clutter-free UI.

Video Demo

Watch Demo on YouTube

For more information and instructions visit our website

Limitations of the plugin

As a plugin that work entirely depend on third-party cloud services (Google Docs Viewer and Microsoft Office Online), Embed Any Document has it's own limitations like not supporting video/audio playback and animations/transitions in the embedded documents. Please read our FAQs for details.

This is an AWSM Project.

Installation

1. Upload the entire embed-any-documents folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
3. Done.

Upload or link the documents to your site using the ‘Add Document’ button in the Visual editor.

Screenshots

1. Embed Any Document Gutenberg Block

2. ‘Add Document’ button integrated into WordPress visual editor

3. Add document popup

4. Add from URL

5. Inserting Document

Frequently Asked Questions

• How do I add documents?
  Once the plugin is activated you can find ‘Add Document’ button in your WordPress visual editor. Just click on that and follow your heart.

• File not found error in my localhost site!
  The viewers (Google Docs Viewer and Microsoft Office Online) do not support locally hosted files. Your document has to be available online for the viewers to access.

• I have another question that you must add in your FAQ.
  Great. Send it to ead@awsm.in. We will answer it as soon as we can.

Changelog

V 2.5.0 - 2020-05-08

• Added: Pre-load screen for Google Docs viewer with reload and open in new tab options for better user experience.
• Fixed: Conflict with other modals generated by ThickBox.
• Other minor bug fixes and style improvements.

V 2.4.1 - 2018-12-10

• Fixed: Blank screen in visual mode of the classic editor plugin

V 2.4 - 2018-12-06

• Added Gutenberg Support. New Document Block is added.
• Fixed: Disabled Microsoft viewer support for unsupported extensions
• Fixed: Localization issues

V 2.3.2 - 2018-01-24

• Focus added when modal window opens

V 2.3.1 - 2017-06-28

• Minor bug fixes and enhancements

View complete Changelog in CHANGELOG.MD