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WordPress Trick: Create A Google Viewer PDF Shortcode [Update]

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Want your PDFs to view through Google Reader? Wrap it in a shortcode like this: Link to a PDF. Drop the following in your functions.php:

function pdflink($attr, $content) {
	return ''.$content.'';
}
add_shortcode('pdf', 'pdflink');

[Update]: Here’s an updated shortcode function which allows you to also embed PDFs using this syntax: Link to a PDF. Note how it’s just a tad shorter, and you don’t have to remember the “href” parameter, though you can still use it.

function pdflink($attr, $content) {
	if ($attr['href']) {
		return ''.$content.'';
	} else {
		$src = str_replace("=", "", $attr[0]);
		return ''.$content.'';
	}
}
add_shortcode('pdf', 'pdflink');

Also, here’s an example PDF link using the above code: Link to a PDF.

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