Buyers of eBooks, templates, and reports want to flip a few pages before committing. Document Preview adds a preview button to your WooCommerce product pages so customers can sample PDFs, Word files, Excel sheets, and presentations right on the page, the same way you'd browse a book in a store.
Admin settings radio options no longer wrap mid-label and stack cleanly on phones (settings-bridge migration).
Dev
Added the wcdp_admin_view_path filter so a Pro or third-party screen can change which view file a settings tab renders.
Bridged the shared shell's wcdp_settings_nav_groups filter and wcdp_settings_tab_content action so extensions can register settings tabs.
Corrected the hooks reference (now covers all extension points), fixed the hook-docs generator, and removed dead scaffolding.
v1.6.2
September 11, 2026
New 3 Improve 2 Fix 3 Security 1 Dev 3
New
Local PDF previews now render through a bundled pdf.js viewer instead of Google's servers, so they work on staging, local, password-protected and firewalled sites.
Added a [document_preview] shortcode and a Document Preview block so owners can place the preview anywhere, including product tabs and the Site Editor.
Rebuilt the admin panel around an Overview screen where owners can see, filter, sort, export and query every document the store has attached.
Improve
Plugin colours now bridge to the active theme's design tokens, and per-format colours are overridable per site.
Preview button and viewer now announce themselves to assistive technology, with visible focus rings and an undo action in place of the blocking confirm dialog.
Fix
Documents attached to grouped, external, out-of-stock and catalogue-mode products now show a preview.
OneDrive, Dropbox folder and SharePoint share links that saved but never rendered now preview correctly through one shared document-source detector.
The local-environment developer notice no longer shows to logged-in shoppers and now appears only on the product edit screen for the store owner.
Security
Removed the unauthenticated document-delete AJAX endpoint that could be reached without login.
Dev
Added WCDP_Documents, WCDP_Renderer and WCDP_Document_Source as subclassable seams with documented filters (wcdp_renderer_for_document, wcdp_document_sources, wcdp_preview_hook, wcdp_render_preview) for Pro and third parties.
Added a PHPUnit test suite, WPCS coding standards, a generated hook reference and a CI workflow running PHP lint, PHPStan and WPCS.
Fixed distribution packaging to ship only runtime vendor code and exclude dev dependencies from the release zip.
v1.6.1
Improve 3 Fix 4 Compat 1
Improve
Uninstall cleanup now properly removes all plugin data (post meta, options) when deleted
Rebuilt minified CSS and RTL stylesheets
Legacy BuddyPress code reference that was a copy-paste artifact
Fix
Text domain corrected to match plugin slug for full translation compatibility
Replaced unsafe global $post usage with WooCommerce-safe product retrieval for page builder compatibility (Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder)
Hardcoded button and UI colors replaced with CSS custom properties for better theme integration
Plugin options now use autoload=false to reduce database overhead on every page load
Compat
WordPress 6.9 and WooCommerce 9.x compatibility
v1.6.0
Improve 3 Fix 1
Improve
Validation logic to allow product saving without requiring a document upload
Error handling for smoother product management workflow
Groundwork for minified asset delivery and RTL stylesheet distribution
Fix
Issue preventing product publishing when no document had been added to the Preview Documents meta box
v1.5.0
New 5 Improve 5 Fix 3 Note 1
New
Google Docs Viewer integration for PDF and Office document preview on live sites
Local development preview endpoint with native browser PDF rendering
Dropbox shared link integration with automatic URL conversion for embedding
Google Sheets and Google Slides shared link support
Default file icon for unsupported or unrecognised document formats
Improve
Document preview UI on both single product and product edit pages
Mobile view styling for the preview button and document display area
XLS file compatibility for preview and download
Admin settings screen icons and Pro tab layout
Removed debug logs, duplicate CSS, and unused files
Fix
DOCX content rendering issues via Google Docs Viewer
FAQ accordion functionality and early text domain loading
Various PHPCS coding standard issues
Note
Media Library upload integration for document files
v1.4.4
New 1 Fix 2 Compat 1
New
Tooltip on the Preview Documents meta box fields
Fix
PHP 8.0 compatibility
iframe preview layout on mobile devices
Compat
WordPress 6.5 compatibility confirmed
v1.4.3
Improve 1 Fix 3
Improve
Preview item button UI design
Fix
PHPCS coding standard issues
Plugin activation redirect when multiple plugins are activated simultaneously
Admin notice conflict with BuddyBoss admin bar
v1.4.2
Improve 1
Improve
Wbcom shared admin wrapper to current version
v1.4.1
Improve 1 Fix 3
Improve
Plugin documentation link
Fix
Backend admin UI rendering on the product edit screen
Plugin showing wp_die on activation when WooCommerce is not active; replaced with admin notice
Fatal error on plugin activation in some environments
v1.4.0
Fix 3
Fix
PHPCS compliance fixes throughout codebase
Undefined variable error
Removed install plugin button from admin wrapper
v1.3.0
New 1 Fix 3
New
Pro features preview in disabled mode in the admin settings
Fix
Blank area on product page when no document is attached
Activation redirect issue
Cannot upload supported XLS file format
v1.2.0
Fix 3
Fix
Deprecated jQuery .live() function replaced with .on()
Add button CSS class update
PHP notices and warnings
v1.1.0
Improve 1
Improve
Compatibility with WooCommerce 4.0
v1.0.4
Improve 1
Improve
Compatibility with WooCommerce 3.6.2
v1.0.3
Improve 1
Improve
WooCommerce 3.5.2 compatible
v1.0.2
Improve 1
Improve
General compatibility testing with current WooCommerce and WordPress releases
v1.0.1
Improve 1
Improve
General compatibility testing
v1.0.0
Note 1
Note
Initial release
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