PDF Poster – Let visitors read PDF’s without leaving the page

Responsive PDF Viewer on Every Screen

• Separate height and width for desktop, tablet and mobile — Set each breakpoint independently instead of forcing one size on every device.
• Device preview switcher — Flip between desktop, tablet and mobile while you configure, in both the block and the metabox.

Reading Experience and Navigation

• Viewer theme: light, dark or auto — Themes the viewer toolbar and background. The PDF page content itself is never altered.
• RTL layout: off, on or auto — Flips the viewer and toolbar for Arabic, Hebrew and other right-to-left languages, in every viewer.
• Keyboard navigation — Left and right arrow keys turn pages in all viewers.
• Annotation mode — Shows the notes, highlights, comments and clickable links already saved inside the PDF.
• Open PDF links in a new tab — Links clicked inside the document open in a new tab, so your page stays put.
• Filename display — Show the document name above the viewer.

Print, Download, Full Screen and Social Sharing

• Print — Let visitors print straight from the viewer, or turn printing off entirely.
• Download button — One-click download above the viewer, or no download at all.
• Full-screen button — Show or hide the full-screen toggle on any embed.
• Social sharing — Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Pinterest and email buttons, placed above or below the viewer, each one individually switchable.

PDF Watermarking — Text Marks Are Free

• Text watermark on every page — Stamp your own wording across the document.
• Three ready-made themes — Confidential, Draft Stamp and Sample Wash, each with its own angle, tiling and weight, so a usable mark is one click away.
• Dynamic placeholders — Drop {site_name} , {post_title} , {file_name} , {page} , {pages} , {date} , {year} , {user_name} , {user_email} or {user_ip} into the text and it resolves per page and per visitor.
• Choose which pages — All pages, the first page only, or everything except the cover.
• Live preview while you edit — The editor draws the mark with the same builder the front end uses, so what you see is what publishes.

Popup (Lightbox) PDF Viewer — Free

• Open PDFs in a modal — Keep the page clean and load the document only when a reader asks for it.
• Button or image trigger — Trigger from a styled button or from any image, with your own alignment, image dimensions and an optional PDF icon overlay.

PDF Analytics — See Today’s Views and Downloads, Free

• Today’s views and downloads — How many times each document was opened and downloaded today, with no third-party analytics service. The figures appear on the PDF Posters list, beside each document in both editors, and on the Analytics screen.
• Accurate behind a page cache — Counting happens in the visitor’s browser, so figures stay right on sites running WP Rocket, LiteSpeed or Cloudflare instead of recording one view per cached copy.
• Every embed counted — Not only saved PDF Posters: a block placed straight onto a page and [pdf_embed url="…"] each get their own figures.
• Privacy-first by default — No IP address stored, no cookie set, nothing sent to a third party. The rows live in your own database.
• Site-wide controls — Turn counting on or off, keep your own visits out of the numbers, and optionally respect the browser’s Do Not Track header.

A view is recorded once the viewer has genuinely been on screen — not on every page load — and once per visitor per 30 minutes.

Styling and Custom CSS

• Button and title styling — Background colour, text colour, font size and padding for the action buttons, plus the title font size, with no CSS needed.
• Site-wide custom CSS — One stylesheet for every embed, in Settings.
• Per-document CSS and CSS class — Style a single poster or a single block without touching your theme.

Site-Wide Defaults

• Presets in Settings — Set the defaults every new PDF Poster starts from, so you configure once instead of on every document. (Changing a preset affects documents you create afterwards.)

Performance and Reliability

• Fast loading (progressive rendering) — Streams large PDFs so the first page appears while the rest is still downloading.
• Google Doc Viewer fallback — An optional second rendering path for browsers that mishandle inline PDFs (recommended for Edge).

In Your WordPress Dashboard

• PDF Poster dashboard — One place for your documents, demos, help and changelog.
• PDF chatbot assistant — Ask setup questions without leaving WordPress.

PDF Poster Pro Features — What Upgrading Adds

Everything above stays exactly as it is. PDF Poster Pro adds the following on top.

Two More PDF Viewers

• Adobe PDF viewer — Rendering by the Adobe PDF Embed API, with Adobe’s own embed and view modes, including its lightbox.
• Continuous Scroll viewer — Every page in one uninterrupted scroll, built for long reports.

Advanced Reading Controls

• Reader Mode — The document and nothing else: no toolbar, no frame, no distractions.
• Thumbnail sidebar — Show the page thumbnails panel, and choose whether it opens by default.
• Initial page and default zoom — Open on page 12 at 125% if that is where the reader should start.
• Horizontal scrollbar — Make horizontal scrolling the default for wide documents.
• Hide the right toolbar — Trim the viewer chrome further.

Button Labels and Placement

• Rename the download button — Your label, your language.
• Rename the full-screen button — Same, for the full-screen toggle.
• Open full screen in a new tab — Send the full-screen view to its own tab.
• Move the action bar — Put print, download and full screen above or below the viewer.

Logo Watermarking and Anti-Leak

• Logo, or logo with text — Stamp your logo over every page, on its own or beside your wording.
• Three more themes — Brand Corner, Logo Wash and Logo + Caption, each with its own angle, tiling and weight.
• Custom theme — Set coverage, position, strength, size and angle yourself: from a single corner mark to a dense tile that cannot be cropped out of a screenshot.
• Choose who sees it — Everyone, everyone except administrators (so you can proof the clean original), or logged-out visitors only.
• Anti-leak options — A per-visitor stamp that identifies whoever opened a leaked screenshot, plus tamper restore that puts the mark back if a visitor deletes it with browser dev tools.

Watermarking is a deterrent, not DRM — an on-screen mark can be removed with browser dev tools, and no browser can prevent a screenshot.

PDF Content Protection

• Disable right-click and copying — Block the context menu and copy shortcuts on your documents.
• Disable text selection — Stop text being dragged out of the viewer.
• Suppress blocked-action alerts — Enforce protection quietly, without warning pop-ups.

Full PDF Analytics History

Every day is recorded on every version, in your own database. The free plugin shows you today; Pro reads the rest back — so there is nothing to import when you upgrade, and the history your site has already built is there waiting.

• All-time totals and history — Total views and downloads for any document, over any period.
• 7, 30 and 90 day reports — Views and downloads over time as a chart, with the change against the previous period.
• Download rate, busiest day and top documents — What people actually read, ranked.
• Per-document reports — Open any single document’s own trend and totals straight from the editor, as a link you can bookmark or share.
• Sortable Views and Downloads columns — On the PDF Posters list, so your most-read documents sort to the top.
• CSV export — Take any range into a sprea