Reporting problem with website

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  sianrichards55 · Member · Oct 8, 2020 at 12:25 am

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  I’m trying to embed a pdf file and get an error ‘Sorry, this content could not be embedded’

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Oct 8, 2020 at 2:50 am

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  Hi there,
  Which site is this for? I see you have a few on your account

  Happy to see if we are able to replicate your issue by uploading a test PDF, thanks!

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  sianrichards55 · Member · Oct 8, 2020 at 7:36 am

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  Hi, thanks for reply.
  I’m embarrassed to say I got in a muddle last night, and it was a wordpress.org site where I was trying to embed a pdf into a post.
  However I have just tried to replicate embedding the same pdf into a post on https://test3661565177.wordpress.com/ and although I don’t get the error message the attempted embed did appear to have been turned into a link. But when I published the post and viewed the post, the pdf was indeed embedded!
  SO everything is fine with the wordpress.com site, it’s just the wordpress.org site which is iffy!
  Thanks for your help, and sorry for wasting your time!
  Sian

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Oct 8, 2020 at 8:21 am

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  Hi Sian,

  I’m glad you got this working. Embedding a PDF file without the use of a plugin is a WordPress.com feature, that’s why you couldn’t do it on a self-hosted site.

  Here’s also more information about embedding PDFs onto your WordPress.com site:

  https://wordpress.com/support/embedding-a-pdf-file/