As of April 2026, PDF Thumbnails is a WordPress pdf plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 34K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for….
4.6/59 reviews
1.0K+active installs
34K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
This plugin hooks into the media manager and generates a thumbnail everytime a
PDF is uploaded. Generated thumbnail is an image of the first page in the
uploaded document and is named PDFNAME-thumbnail, where PDFNAME is replaced
by uploaded document filename.
Generated thumbnails are equivalent to featured
images so that common thumbnail
functions like get_post_thumbnail_id() can be used for PDF attachments. See
Post Thumbnails for information
on how you can use thumbnails efficiently.
Integration with the javascript media API is not yet implemented, therefore, you
may need to reload the page before you can see generated thumbnail after an
upload.
Shortcodes
It is possible to display a thumbnail linking to an uploaded PDF using the [pdf_thumbnails_link]
shortcode. The following attributes…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
No longer supported
by joyrowe·6 years ago·2 replies
As of June 2019, this plug-in does not seem to be functioning on our site. It has not been updated for 3 years. We are using WordPress 5.2.1.
great!
by formgiver·7 years ago
thank you so much! i just needed to enable imagik and ask my host to speed up the php libraries’ updating process, it already had pdf support.
- This topic was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by formgiver.
Excellent
by jonsisk·7 years ago
Works just like it should. Can’t believe this functionality isn’t in the WP core. Thanks!
Nice Job
by mirgcire·9 years ago·1 reply
The plugin does just what it says and the author is very helpful. My only suggestion would be to add a short code that would insert a clickable thumbnail into a webpage. Clicking on that would open the PDF in a viewer.
For example: [pdf-thumbnail id=”1234″ size=”medium”]
… naturally this functionality would require host support for imagick.
Works as expected
by winnewoerp·10 years ago
This plugin does what it’s supposed to do. No problems.
Download Trends
Today: 6Yesterday: 3This week: 24Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to 4.6.30 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.2
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
This plugin use semantic versioning, i.e. breaking changes
increase the MAJOR version.
2.2.0
- Support title, target, and download attributes in
pdf_thumbnails_linkshortcode
Contributors
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