Best viewer plugins for WordPress
The most popular viewer plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. PDF.js Viewer leads with 20K+ active installs, ahead of Embed PDF Viewer (20K+) and flowpaper (10K+). All 43 plugins tagged “viewer” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 viewer plugins
- 1.
PDF.js ViewerThe most installed viewer plugin, with 20K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 53 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 2.
Embed PDF Viewer20K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 19 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
flowpaper10K+ active installs. Rated 3.4 from 38 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 4.
PDF Viewer Block for Gutenberg10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 9 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
PDF Smart Viewer for Elementor1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 6.
Easy 3D Viewer1K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 12 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.
Shutter Reloaded1K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 6 reviews, updated 6 days ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 8.
Simple Ebook Viewer400+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.
Shutter Reloaded Plus200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 10.
Scribd Doc Embedder200+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
All 43 plugins tagged “viewer”
PDF.js Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:4#1,181by Ben Lawson15 days ago
Embed a beautiful PDF viewer into pages.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.4(53)
- Downloads
- 345/day
Embed PDF Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,196by Andy Fragen3 months ago
Embed a PDF from the Media Library or elsewhere via oEmbed or as a block into an iframe tag.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.7(19)
- Downloads
- 126/day
flowpaper
#1,580by getflowpaper4 months ago
Embed your PDFs with ease. All you need : [flipbook pdf="https://flowpaper.com/example.pdf"]
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.4(38)
- Downloads
- 73/day
PDF Viewer Block for Gutenberg
Up in the last 7 days:4#1,759by Jb Audras2 months ago
A simple and 100% free Gutenberg Block to display PDF Viewers / Readers on your website.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(9)
- Downloads
- 59/day
PDF Smart Viewer for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:9#5,341by DeKnows1 year ago
A simple PDF viewer widget for Elementor that displays PDFs directly on your website.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Easy 3D Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:6#6,556by fuzzoid8 months ago
Easy to use WordPress/WooCommerce product 3D viewer.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.1(12)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Shutter Reloaded
Down in the last 7 days:37#6,746by Andrew Ozz6 days ago
This plugin is incompatible with newer versions of WordPress. Last supported version is 3.4. It darkens the current page and displays an image (like L …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Simple Ebook Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:78#9,380by Francesco Martini2 months ago
Embed and display Ebooks in your website.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 9/day
Shutter Reloaded Plus
Down in the last 7 days:228#12,091by danaila_iulian13 years ago
Darkens the current page and displays an image (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller (8KB) and faster.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Scribd Doc Embedder
Up in the last 7 days:11#12,608by ericboles12 years ago
Uses the Scribd API to embed supported Scribd documents (e.g. PDF, MS Office, ePub, and many others) into a web page using the Scribd Docs Reader.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP 3D Thingviewer Lite
Down in the last 7 days:71#14,090by Accolore1 year ago
This plugin provide a 3D model files viewer to embed your 3d models on your Wordpress pages or posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.2(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day
STL Viewer
Down in the last 7 days:154#15,559by christian.loelkes11 years ago
With a simple shortcode you can enable and embed a WebGL viewer to show 3d stl files.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Webcam Viewer free
Down in the last 7 days:73#17,138by Antonio Germani7 months ago
A plugin to display webcam images uploaded via FTP, with slideshow or carousel options.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.7(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DB Table Viewer
Down in the last 7 days:160#17,167by Vrutika Darji18 days ago
View and paginate database table data in a user-friendly format.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Website Update Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:149#17,648by Jekit Parekh1 year ago
Easily monitor and copy update details for WordPress core, plugins, and themes — streamline your website maintenance workflow.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
QTVR Viewer
#19,472by fierodeval15 years ago
This plugin inserts a panoramic player into a WordPress article to view a 360 panoramic picture in QTVR format (.mov)
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Debug log admin viewer
Up in the last 7 days:606#20,162by TWK Media1 month ago
A WordPress plugin providing a user-friendly interface to manage debug settings and view debug logs with advanced filtering capabilities.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Image Projector
Up in the last 7 days:324#23,569by wpgloe1 month ago
A unique, low-profile plug-and-play image viewer.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 4.6(10)
- Downloads
- 0/day
KindPixels PDF Gallery
Down in the last 7 days:2,767#25,476by KIND PIXELS1 month ago
Create beautiful galleries from PDFs (and other files), with customizable layouts, lightbox viewer, and drag-and-drop management.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Embed Spreadsheet Viewer
Down in the last 7 days:65#26,760by Matt Ellenburg1 year ago
Embed spreadsheet tables from public Excel URLs into your WordPress site with sorting, filtering, pagination, and custom formatting.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Strands PDF Embed
Down in the last 7 days:120#30,582by strands28 days ago
Embed PDFs from your Media Library with a responsive viewer. Works with Gutenberg, Classic Editor, Enfold ALB, Elementor, and WPBakery.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MangaFocus
Down in the last 7 days:1,867#33,775by cniworks4 days ago
Publish comics on WordPress with Focus Mode: enlarge panels in reading order, or read whole pages, spreads and fullscreen vertical layouts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
MangaVisor
Up in the last 7 days:9,518#35,143by waylayer4 months ago
Add a full-screen image reader to WordPress posts and pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pleasant Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:7,107#38,926by Gabriel Serafini19 days ago
Easily share Wednesday Readings, inspiring texts, lessons, benedictions and more on your WordPress site. Official site: PleasantViewer.org
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
API Grid Viewer
#38,985by gladwingt2 years ago
A WordPress plugin for testing complex JSON APIs directly from the admin panel. Simple, secure, and lightweight with no external libraries.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Embed-SweetHome3D
#46,446by stevecohenfr4 months ago
Embed your SweetHome3D houses as interactive HTML5/WebGL models in your posts and pages, through a Gutenberg block or the [sh3d] shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
TSViewerWidget
Down in the last 7 days:7,821#47,092tsviewerwidget19 years ago
Show your teamspeakserver as a widget in your wordpress-sidebar.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kas Viewer
Down in the last 7 days:1,064#47,712by kasbeel16 years ago
KasViewer is a image, or web content visor, base on sexlightbox script to create a popup box in the same frame to show html content.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Name
#47,924by Andries Jansen16 years ago
With the Csv Viewer plugin you can display your CSV-files on your WordPress-page. You can simply upload your CSV-file, change them settings and style, …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Freedomification Log Inspector
#52,490by Marek Jankowski2 months ago
Freedomification Log Inspector is a lightweight, admin-only log viewer for safely reading and searching selected local log files in wp-admin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Comnoira 3D Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:16,319#55,716by comnoira2 months ago
Show an interactive Comnoira 3D Showcase on any page with a Gutenberg block — no code required.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kenter2909 Embed Viewer Fixer
#57,995by kenter29091 month ago
Finds Embed Any Document shortcodes that use local uploads and adds the browser viewer attribute without changing the document URL.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
vitrine 3D Viewer
Up in the last 7 days:5,348#61,438by vitrine5 months ago
Embed interactive 3D product viewers in any page or post.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MaxtDesign PDF Viewer
#62,286by MaxtDesign1 month ago
The fastest PDF viewer for WordPress. Sub-200ms load times, zero layout shift, and a beautiful reading experience.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Jadav PDF Lens
#65,114by Sanjay Jadav28 days ago
Display PDF documents in a responsive, accessible viewer without relying on external viewer services.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Clicksmith
#65,851by Clicksmith Digital Marketing1 year ago
Embed PDFs with a simple shortcode. No ads or upsells. Set width/height and optional download link. Free.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BT SVG Viewer
Down in the last 7 days:13,992#67,665by bterp2 months ago
A shortcode-powered SVG viewer with reusable presets, zoom, and pan controls.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Selytho Page Flip Creator
Down in the last 7 days:11,675#68,806by Rob Art1 month ago
Turn any PDF into a beautiful 3D page-turning viewer — embed it anywhere with a single shortcode.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
GVSoft Photobox
Up in the last 7 days:1,533#69,902by Vladimir Giryavyy7 years ago
This plugin provides frame for viewing photos and pictures.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACS PDF Slide Viewer
Down in the last 7 days:20,472#72,205by ACS26 days ago
Embed uploaded PDF files as fitted slide viewers with previous/next controls, zoom controls, carousel playback, and optional downloads.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
zinejs Flipbook
#72,587by Dipesh Acharya17 days ago
A real page-flip reader for PDFs and images, via a block or the [zinejs] shortcode.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day