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by Stian Liknes 4.6 (9 reviews)

PDF Thumbnails

This plugin generates a thumbnail everytime you upload a PDF attachment. Generated thumbnail is an image of the first page in uploaded document.

PDF Thumbnails ranks #6,425 among WordPress.org plugins with 1,000+ active installations, is #630 of 6,651 in the Media category, a 4.6/5 rating from 9 reviews, and was last updated Oct 24, 2016. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.6 (Current: 7.1.4)
v2.2.0 Current Version v2.2.0
Updated 10 years ago Last Update on 24 Oct, 2016
Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on
#630 of 6,651 in Media Top 10% by installs Downloads -15.3% this week No update in over a year
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Downloads
34.4K
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Support Resolved
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Rating
92%
Review 4.6 out of 5
4.6 (9 reviews)

Next Milestone 2K

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Reviews & Ratings

4.6
9 reviews
Overall 92%
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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

No known vulnerabilities on record for PDF Thumbnails. Checked 3 months ago.

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who upload PDF attachments and want visual thumbnails for them. It generates a thumbnail image from the first page of an uploaded PDF and integrates it with WordPress's featured image system so it can be displayed via shortcode or standard thumbnail functions.

  • Generates PDF thumbnail on upload
  • Thumbnail equivalent to featured image
  • pdf_thumbnails_link shortcode
  • Configurable thumbnail size
  • Anchor title, target, download attributes
  • pdf_thumbnails_generate_image_blob filter
  • pdf_thumbnails_link_shortcode filter

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about PDF Thumbnails

PDF Thumbnails has 1,000+ active installations on the WordPress.org plugin directory.
PDF Thumbnails holds a 4.6 out of 5 star rating based on 9 user reviews on WordPress.org.
PDF Thumbnails is developed by Stian Liknes and published on the official WordPress.org plugin repository.
PDF Thumbnails is tested up to WordPress 4.6.
PDF Thumbnails has been downloaded 34,447+ times from WordPress.org.
The latest version of PDF Thumbnails is 2.2.0. It was last updated on October 24, 2016.
Yes. PDF Thumbnails is a free WordPress plugin available to download and install from the WordPress.org plugin directory.

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