Buddypress: Display pdf links users post, in pdf view?

I must not be searching using the right terms and hoping someone here can help. I run a buddypress site. On some social platforms I’ve been on, (librti.com being one of them), if I share a pdf url from anywhere, such as to a Mercola article, when I hit submit on my post, the pdf is automatically displayed to the user. I have not embedded it, used a shortcode to interpret it, nothing. The url to the pdf file was all I typed into my post and it displayed for other people to see.

I am trying to find a plugin that will do the same thing for the users of my buddypress site. When they share a url containing a pdf file, I want that file to be automatically loaded for other visitors to see. They should not need to use a shortcode or embed code. Just as wordpress can interpret other media files to view them automatically, I want this for pdf files.

I’m pretty sure there is a plugin out there that does this, but any searches bring back results telling the webmaster or blogger how to add pdfs and not telling the webmaster how to ensure front-end shared pdf urls can be automatically interpreted instead.

Help???

Here is how it looks when as a front-end user, I add a link to a post and what the post looks like after I’ve submitted it: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/od1e9egow742m2c6ubtm2/autopdfviewrfrontend.jpg?rlkey=r0bcxyrvu6uku79cp681d7whr&dl=0

• This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by songdove.