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I have around 200 20-page PDF docs that I want to include on my site. I’m a very new wordpress user.
Needless to say, when embedding these it throttles the speed or crashes the browser at around 50 documents. I know I can break it up into multiple pages.
What other techniques can I employ to me this smoother?
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Currently working on the best way to structure a lot of PDF manuals and parts lists and hitting a wall on the “best way” for the application. Do you need any filtering, sorting, or organization to it or is it simply like a file repository?
Ilovepdf.com does a good job of compressing PDFs if that helps, usually cuts at least 60-80% of the file size.
Compress them first with [shrinkpdf.com](http://shrinkpdf.com) and then organize them with Document Library Pro (unfortunately, no free version of this plugin exists). I’m using it across 100+ sites and am storing nearly 10,000 PDFs.
Check out ACF Pro. With their custom post types and custom fields, you can get something set up pretty quickly.
What do you mean by “embedding”? How are you doing that exactly? PDF’s are terrible UX, esp on mobile, as they aren’t responsive, so I’d recommend you implement them as HTML-based content on the site.
Are you embedding all of them on the same page? I wouldn’t do that. I would compress them as others have said. Then I would probably just make them links to the PDF file instead of embedding them. It will still open in the browser, usually in a new tab. WordPress might even make a separate page for each that you upload to the media library so you could always point the links there.
But yeah I wouldn’t embed all of them on one page.