r/Wordpress • u/bruhthrowaway001 • 11h ago

Beginner question

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Hey, I’m very new to Wordpress and not very tech savvy. I have been trying to upload a pdf to my website without having this toolbar (in the red circle) visible. Been trying to find answers online to no avail. I don’t have Adobe which a lot of guides seemed to have.

Is this possible without plugins?

Thank you

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u/terwilliger 9h ago

The toolbar is added by your browser when viewing PDFs

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u/NakanoNoNeko 8h ago

That toolbar belongs to the browser's PDF viewer, not WordPress, so WordPress cannot reliably hide it. Adding #toolbar=0 to the PDF URL works in some viewers, but browsers are free to ignore it... I think the clean choices are converting the PDF pages to images or HTML, or simply letting the browser handle the PDF. CSS cannot reach that toolbar because it is not actually inside your page.