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PDF Embedder · Version history

PDF Embedder changelog and version history

Latest version
5.0.2
Aug 14, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
47
since 2015
In the last year
4
about one every 76 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 201514 releases
  • 20166 releases
  • 20172 releases
  • 20182 releases
  • 20195 releases
  • 20202 releases
  • 20212 releases
  • 20221 release
  • 20231 release
  • 20245 releases
  • 20254 releases
  • 20263 releases

20263 releases

  1. PDF Embedder 5.0.2Latest

    • Changed: Compatibility with WordPress 7.1.
    • Fixed: The PDF Viewer could get stuck on “Loading…” after a plugin update until browser and CDN caches were cleared.

  2. PDF Embedder 5.0.1

    • Fixed: Occasional fatal errors that could be triggered during WordPress cron runs when other plugins (such as SEO indexers) parsed post content containing PDF Embedder.
    • Fixed: A “source width is 0” JavaScript error that broke the PDF Viewer in hidden containers or when caching plugins served stale assets after 5.0.0.

  3. PDF Embedder 5.0.0

    • IMPORTANT: The minimum WordPress version has been raised to WordPress 6.6.
    • IMPORTANT: The minimum PHP version has been raised to PHP 7.4.
    • Added: Live PDF preview in the Block Editor that matches the front-end Viewer, with the file picker moved to the block sidebar.
    • Changed: Compatibility with WordPress 7.0.
    • Changed: The block has been updated to API version 3 for the new iframe-based Block Editor introduced in WordPress 6.9, so embedded PDFs continue to render correctly inside the editor preview.
    • Changed: Updated the bundled PDF.js rendering library to v2.16.105, bringing years of upstream improvements, security fixes, and broader PDF compatibility, and aligning it with the Premium plugin.
    • Changed: PDFs with image-heavy or scanned content (such as JPEG2000 or JBIG2) now render noticeably faster.
    • Changed: The Block Editor PDF preview is now compatible with multilingual sites running Polylang or WPML where the admin’s home URL resolves to a language-prefixed path.
    • Fixed: When the shortcode title attribute was not provided, PDF files with Arabic, Chinese, or other non-ASCII characters in their file names had the URL-encoded form (e.g. %D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8) shown as the fallback link text before the PDF Viewer loaded.
    • Fixed: A broken or empty PDF Viewer was displayed on the front end when post content tried to embed a PDF from the /securepdfs/ folder, which is created by PDF Embedder Premium’s Pro plan. The Viewer is now hidden in this scenario.
    • Fixed: Hardened various security checks across the plugin.

20254 releases

  1. PDF Embedder 4.9.3

    • Changed: Compatibility with WordPress 6.9.
    • Changed: “Get Started” section in the plugin admin area can now be closed by clicking the same link in the plugin header again.
    • Fixed: Adjust plugin links inside our block in the Block Editor.
    • Fixed: Other minor code improvements and fixes, not visible but still valuable for plugin maintenance in the future.

  2. PDF Embedder 4.9.2

    • Changed: When just installed, the plugin was not saving its settings into the database upon activation. This caused the plugin to not work properly until the settings were saved at least once.
    • Fixed: PDF Viewer Toolbar was displayed on the front-end even when disabled using block/shortcode attributes until the plugin settings were saved at least once.

  3. PDF Embedder 4.9.1

    • Fixed: The PDF Embedder block performance was improved slightly in the Block Editor.
    • Fixed: Toolbar was not visible when configured to be displayed on hover.
    • Fixed: Make sure that PDF URL has the domain when requesting the file from the server.
    • Fixed: When the shortcode height attribute contained the value auto – the PDF Viewer wasn’t correctly displaying the PDF file content.
    • Fixed: Do not output debug information in the browser console when the PDF file has some True Type fonts incorrect data. PDF Rendering is still fine.

  4. PDF Embedder 4.9.0

    • IMPORTANT: The minimum WordPress version has been raised to WordPress 6.1.
    • IMPORTANT: The minimum PHP version has been raised to PHP 7.2.
    • Added: A new dismissible “Get Started” section was added to the plugin settings page to help you get started with the plugin.
    • Changed: Compatibility with WordPress 6.7.
    • Changed: Various plugin admin area improvements.
    • Changed: Further improvements to the PDF Embedder block in the Block Editor.
    • Fixed: Address the issue with the WordPress Interactivity API and mobile navigation when the site works in SCRIPT_DEBUG mode.
    • Fixed: Dropdown menus when opened were not able to “cover” the PDF Viewer toolbar due to the z-index value set for the toolbar.
    • Fixed: Prevent occasional fatal errors from happening when the plugin is initiated during the cron request.

20245 releases

  1. PDF Embedder 4.8.2

    • Fixed: PDF files containing the text in certain languages (like Korean or Japanese) were not rendered properly due to a bug in PDF.js library incorrectly handling passed options.

  2. PDF Embedder 4.8.1

    • Fixed: Make sure that when width and height shortcode/option values have an incorrect value, the plugin does not generate a fatal error.

  3. PDF Embedder 4.8.0

    • Changed: Compatibility with WordPress 6.5.
    • Changed: Make the PDF Embedder block extensible.
    • Changed: Improved the look and feel of the PDF Embedder block inside the Block Editor.
    • Changed: Removed some unnecessary files from the released version to decrease the zip size.
    • Fixed: Improved performance for the majority of sites by not loading an internal Action Scheduler library (which was also updated to 3.7.4) when it is not used.
    • Fixed: Hide the Toolbar Hover options in the block if the “No Toolbar” option is chosen.
    • Fixed: Security fixes in the way certain PDF files are rendered to prevent arbitrary scripts execution.

  4. PDF Embedder 4.7.1

    • Changed: The logic for displaying notices was adjusted.
    • Fixed: Improved handling of incorrect URLs supplied to the shortcode – PDF viewer won’t even try to render it.

  5. PDF Embedder 4.7.0

    • IMPORTANT: The minimum WordPress version has been raised to WordPress 5.8.
    • IMPORTANT: The minimum PHP version has been raised to PHP 7.0.
    • IMPORTANT: If you are using a caching plugin and added PDF Embedder JS files to the exclusion list, you will need to do that again due to changed file names.
    • Added: New option for the toolbar location called “No Toolbar” is now available. It allows you to hide the toolbar completely.
    • Changed: Plugin admin area interface has been refreshed.
    • Changed: The plugin has been tested with the latest version of WordPress.
    • Changed: Block was rewritten from scratch, and now it looks better in the Block Editor, and also syncs its default settings with global plugin options.
    • Fixed: A lot of strings in the plugin have been fixed to make them translatable and accurate.
    • Fixed: Several security related improvements have been introduced (data sanitization and escaping).
    • Fixed: Text in PDF files in certain languages (like, Japanese and Korean) was not rendered correctly.
    • The full changelog is located in the changelog.txt file.

20231 release

  1. PDF Embedder 4.6.4

20221 release

  1. PDF Embedder 4.6.2

20212 releases

  1. PDF Embedder 4.6.3

  2. PDF Embedder 4.6.1

20202 releases

  1. PDF Embedder 4.6

  2. PDF Embedder 4.5

20195 releases

  1. PDF Embedder 4.4

  2. PDF Embedder 4.3

  3. PDF Embedder 4.2

  4. PDF Embedder 4.1

  5. PDF Embedder 4.0

20182 releases

  1. PDF Embedder 3.2

  2. PDF Embedder 3.1.8

20172 releases

  1. PDF Embedder 3.0.1

  2. PDF Embedder 2.8

20166 releases

  1. PDF Embedder 2.7.5

  2. PDF Embedder 2.7.3

  3. PDF Embedder 2.5.5

  4. PDF Embedder 2.5.4

  5. PDF Embedder 2.5

  6. PDF Embedder 2.4.1

201514 releases

  1. PDF Embedder 2.4

  2. PDF Embedder 2.2.5

  3. PDF Embedder 2.2.4

  4. PDF Embedder 2.2.2

  5. PDF Embedder 2.2

  6. PDF Embedder 2.1.4

  7. PDF Embedder 2.1

  8. PDF Embedder 2.0

  9. PDF Embedder 1.2.1

  10. PDF Embedder 1.2

  11. PDF Embedder 1.0.4

  12. PDF Embedder 1.0.3

  13. PDF Embedder 1.0.2

  14. PDF Embedder 1.0.1

Questions about PDF Embedder’s releases

What is the latest version of PDF Embedder?

5.0.2, released on Aug 14, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is PDF Embedder updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 76 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from January 2015.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in PDF Embedder’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.