PDF Thumbnail Generator

Generates thumbnail for PDF file automatically after file is uploaded to the Media library.

You can also generate thumbnails for old PDF files that are already in the Media library – you can generate missing thumbnails or regenerate all thumbnails.

Imagick library must be installed on your server, otherwise this plugin will not work

• automated test after plugin activation to make sure it will work on your server
• works with all types of WordPress installations: domain, subdomain, subdirectory, multisite/network
• works on Apache and NGiNX
• automatically generate thumbnail for new uploaded PDFs
• (re)generate thumbnails for existing PDFs in Media library
• set maximum width of PDF thumbnail
• set maximum height of PDF thumbnail
• set image quality of PDF thumbnail
• set image file type of PDF thumbnail

Shortcodes

pdf_thumbnail

Maybe you want to display PDF thumbnail by using a shortcode

[pdf_thumbnail id="123"]

pdf_thumbnail_url

Maybe you want to display PDF thumbnail url by using a shortcode

[pdf_thumbnail_url id="123"]

pdf_clickable_thumbnail

Maybe you want to display clickable PDF thumbnail that will open PDF in new tab

[pdf_clickable_thumbnail id="123"]

Functions

get_pdf_thumbnail_url

If you want to return PDF thumbnail URL you can use

get_pdf_thumbnail_url( $pdf_id )

it works similar to wp_get_attachment_url and it will return something like

https://site.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/example.pdf.png

get_pdf_thumbnail_path

If you want to return PDF thumbnail URL you can use

get_pdf_thumbnail_path( $pdf_id )

it works similar to get_attached_file and it will return something like

/www/site.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/example.pdf.png

get_pdf_thumbnail_image_src

If you want to return PDF thumbnail url, width and height you can use

get_pdf_thumbnail_image_src( $pdf_id )

it works similar to wp_get_attachment_image_src and it will return something like

[ 0 => 'https://site.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/example.pdf.png', 1 => 600, 2 => 800 ]