BookPress turns your WordPress website from a blog into a powerful self publishing solution. Write your novel, biography, history or any other book and publish it on your site in a way that ‘feels’ like a book.
If you have tried to create something that feels like a book on WordPress, you’ll know it’s actually not easy. WordPress is great for blogs, magazines and ecommerce, but if you are an author, you’ll probably have already discovered it’s limitations…
With BookPress, you can:
- Add multiple book projects to your WordPress site
- Display your book with all the elements you’d expect – table of contents, index, chapters, footnotes and more.
- Track your book’s progress with word counts, weekly targets and goals.
- Display your books with a sidebar widgets, short-codes and a library page.
- Easily add front matter (cover, author biography); create chapters; add footnotes and indexes and more – ‘just like a real book’.
- Control page numbering – set Latin numerals for front matter and Arabic for your main book elements.
- Coming soon – a host of addons to help you write, display, promote and sell your masterpiece!
BookPress is designed to help authors write and display their works in a way that ‘feels like a book’ on WordPress.
Screen Captures
Two Page ‘Clean’ Display
Display your book text in WordPress in a clear, distraction free way, where it ‘looks like a book’!
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Single Page In Page/Post Display
Alternatively, display your book in a Page of Post within your normal site page.
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Text Page Display
Book text page displaying in a Post or Page
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Book ‘Library’ shortcode
Display multiple books in a page or post. Display by author, genre, title and more.
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Sidebad Widget
Single book display sidebar widget included with the free version of the plugin.
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Sidebar Widget Settings
Single book display sidebar widget settings allow you to show/hide book title, author name, cover image, promo text and read more option.
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Multi-Book Widget
Pro version adds an additional sidebar widget for to display multiple books.
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Multi-Book Widget Settings
Pro version sidebar widget settings – choose multiple books, add promotional text, show/hide elements.
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Books Management Page
Manage all your books in the WordPress back end with from a summary page showing you titles, genres, word counts, number of chapters and book shortcode.
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Book Elements Page
Format your book using the book management page. Sections allow you to add ‘front matter’ such as covers, dedications, table of contents etc; ‘body matter’ (chapters) and ‘end matter’ (eg. index, back cover)
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Targets and Progress Tracking
Tools allow you to set a total book and weekly word count goal and track your progress with statistics and graphs.
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