A blogger often finds the need to attach a Microsoft Office document file or PDF to a blog post. Embedding is the perfect solution to this but Blogger, being a free platform doesn’t provide its user with a lot of direct options here as opposed to the several other platforms that come with a price tag. Blogger wouldn’t let you directly embed a PDF, DOC, XLS or PPT file and so we’ll be looking at an indirect way that can get the job done really nicely and yes, it’d still technically be called embedding. A simple blogging trick would even let you embed music players to your blogger blog.
How to Embed Pdf in Blogger
- Go to the HTML section of your post.
- Locate the point in your post where you want your file to be embedded.
- Add the following iframe code
<iframe src=”https://mozpk.com/” width=”570″ height=”400″ ></iframe>
Replace https://mozpk.com/ with the web address of the file you want to embed in your post. You can set the height and width of the frame as required.
How to get Embed Code from Google Drive
What if your file isn’t available online?
You can make it available online by using Google Drive by uploading that required file from your computer to Google Drive and then use the above mentioned method to embed it to your post. Here’s what you’ll need to do:
- Go to drive.google.com and Sign-in with your Google account
- Upload your file to Google drive
- Set the permissions
The permissions here refer to the file access which is by-default private on Google Drive i.e. only the up loader has the access to a file. You’ll be needing to change that for sure.
- Right click on the uploaded file and select Share
- A dialogue box will appear with the file URL and a list of users who have access to the file. Click on Change in the Who has access panel
- Select ‘Anyone with the link’ from the dialogue box and hit Save
Now use that URL of the file and embed it to your blogger post anywhere you desire. Below is a DOC embedded onto the blog post directly from Google Drive.
So how did it go? We’re sure you were easily able to embed the several types of files to your Blogger blog using the steps mentioned. However, if you’ve got any question or confusion in mind, drop it below in the comments section.
