BrilliantMinds PDF Embed

BrilliantMinds PDF Embed turns any PDF into a clean, modern reading experience inside your content. Visitors read the document right on your page, with no plugins to install and no third-party services involved. Everything runs from your own server.

Highlights

• PDF Viewer block for the block editor: upload or choose a PDF, adjust options in the sidebar.
• Shortcode for the classic editor, page builders and widgets: [bmpdf url="https://example.com/file.pdf"]
• Continuous scroll or one page at a time, with swipe navigation on touch screens.
• Zoom, fit to width, fit to page, rotate and a page number field.
• Light, dark or automatic color scheme, plus a toggle so visitors can choose.
• Fullscreen mode, download, print and open-in-new-tab buttons. Each one can be turned off.
• Selectable, copyable text.
• Your accent color, corner radius, shadow, width, height and alignment.
• Top or bottom toolbar, as a full-width bar or a floating pill.
• Load on click option so pages with several PDFs stay fast.
• Auto-embed option: paste a PDF link on its own line and it becomes a viewer.
• Lazy rendering: only the pages near the screen are drawn, so large documents stay smooth.
• Accessible: keyboard shortcuts, labeled controls, visible focus and reduced-motion support.
• Privacy friendly: no tracking, no cookies, no external requests. The theme toggle remembers a visitor’s choice in their own browser.
• Translation ready.

Shortcode options

All options are optional and override the defaults from Settings > PDF Viewer.

• url – link to the PDF file.
• id – Media Library attachment ID (use instead of url).
• title – title shown in the toolbar.
• width, height – for example width="80%" height="600".
• align – left, center or right.
• mode – scroll or single.
• zoom – width, page or a percentage such as 125.
• page – page to open first.
• theme – auto, light or dark.
• accent – hex color, for example #0f766e.
• radius – corner radius in pixels.
• toolbar_position – top or bottom. toolbar_style – bar or floating.
• On/off options (use 1 or 0): shadow, show_title, page_input, zoom_controls, rotate, theme_toggle, fullscreen, download, print, open_new, text_select, disable_context, load_on_click.

Example: [bmpdf id="123" height="600" theme="dark" mode="single" download="0"]

Developers

Use the bmpdf_viewer_config filter to change the configuration passed to the viewer.

Third-party libraries

This plugin bundles PDF.js by Mozilla, version 4.10.38, licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (compatible with GPLv2 or later).

• Source code and project page: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
• Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdfjs-dist (version 4.10.38, legacy/build files)
• Files in assets/vendor/pdfjs/: pdf.min.js and pdf.worker.min.js are the unmodified legacy/build/pdf.min.mjs and pdf.worker.min.mjs files from that package, renamed to .js (so that every web server sends the correct content type) and with the trailing source-map comment removed. cmaps/ and standard_fonts/ are copied unchanged from the same package. The license is in assets/vendor/pdfjs/LICENSE.txt.
• To rebuild the minified files from source, follow the build instructions in the PDF.js repository at the tag v4.10.38.