Making QR codes for PDFs hosted on your WordPress website

By Kelly Barkhurst

June 24, 2025

4 Min read

In Web Design and UI Design

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Watch a demo of why I use Adobe Express to generate QR codes.

As a designer, I work extensively within the licensed Adobe program universe, but in recent years, Adobe has rolled out free services that anyone can use. Adobe Express’s QR Code generator is one of those free resources that I highly recommend.

Hello, as a designer,

I work extensively within Adobe’s licensed programs,

but recently, they have been rolling out free programs that do not require

licenses. One of those programs that I can highly recommend

is Adobe Express’s Generate QR Code tool.

It’s online and it’s free, and here’s why I like it.

You can put in your URL and easily change styles,

you can add. Add borders, change the center,

choose some of your colors, and what’s really nice is

you can choose, “do I want a PNG, which allows for transparency,

a JPEG which is going to have a white background or an SVG which

is vector. So you can expand that really large, for a billboard,

or maybe an exhibit, or

use it really small on a business card.

The download is free, simple,

and what’s really nice is when you click,

when you use your camera and you go to the file,

there’s no slow redirecting,

it doesn’t advertise Adobe,

it doesn’t say “this user has used a hundred QR code uses

for free.” It’s just a smooth redirect to your actual

page. So I recommend that you try this free service by Adobe

Express to generate your own QR code.

My favorite QR Code Generator

Adobe Express home page screen shot for Free QR code Generator

Alternate QR Code Generators

Alternatively, the WordPress landscape boasts thousands of plugins. There are many QR code plugins you can install and use within the WP dashboard, too.

Looking for a quick way to download a QR Code for Google Business reviews?

There’s an easy way to do this. Check it out in the video below

Good morning designers, developers, and business owners. Today’s video is a really quick one to just show you a new feature that Google My Business, so GMB is an acronym that’s used, has added for reviews. So if you search your business’s name, and it already exists in in the Google Knowledge Graph. If it doesn’t get ahold of me, we need to get you listed. Alright, but when you’re listed, you will see your business on the right side, and on the left before any organic results are kind of your, um, your links to be able to, um, update your business on Google. Alright. Great. So, you can get to reviews from the right, or read reviews. Alright. Now, when you click, read reviews. You can reply to your reviews, and when you click, get more reviews, there is a new, really great feature. So, a while back, we got this direct review link, which used to be hard to get. Um, and now, they’ve added this key. So, you can actually save this QR code, print it out, include it on, um, table stands if you’re a restaurant, um, on postcards, if you’re e-commerce, and you want customers to, um, quickly leave your review. So, this just removes an extra step of you having to get this URL, pick with- which QR code, online generator, or tool you’re going to use, and do the whole thing. There’s also quick links that you can go right to send it in an email, use the what’s up, what’s app, or, um, Facebook. And it’s the same for all businesses, right? So, again, just go right into reviews, and, um, um click, uh, let’s see. Oh, I might not be logged in right now to this company. Oh, that’s a shame. Let’s see. I thought I was. Let me go back. Here we go. So, it is easier when I’m just showing you to not click reviews here. You really want to click Share if you’re on the right side, which is actually going to just take you to your business list. It’s staying so the best way to get that QR code is for sure click Read Reviews, not just reviews. And then from Read Reviews, click Get More Reviews. And then this is where you will find Share Your Reviews QR code, which is a new feature in Google My Business. Alright, so happy QR You are coding here in enjoy sending this link quickly and easily right from Google My Business. That’s it.

Happy Designing!

About the author

Kelly Barkhurst

Designer to Fullstack is my place to geek out and share tech solutions from my day-to-day as a graphic designer, programmer, and business owner (portfolio). I also write on Arts and Bricks, a parenting blog and decal shop that embraces my family’s love of Art and LEGO bricks!

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