Block – Classic Editors more information
At the moment, January 2023, the Classic editor is turned on by default. You can set the blog to use the block editor instead or set it up to have one or other as the default with the choice to switch. More details on the blocks page.
In the future WordPress will be transitioning to the Blocks Editor, we hope to transition to defaulting to the Blocks editor but suport the classic editor while we can.
Brief instructions to using the classic editor and the blocks editor follow.
There has been a recent WordPress change. Pasting a link into the classic editor no longer produces an embed. You need to use the block editor or the Dear Flip plugin.
Blocks Editor
Use the File block this will embed a pdf as below. On smaller devices it may not show the pdf. The File bloc has some setting in the setting sidebar where you can turn off the show inline. You can also set the height it displays at.
You can also se the DearFlip plugin code in a shortcode block to display a pdf as a flipbook.
