BookPress – For Book Authors free WordPress plugin

Writing a book? Promoting a book? This is the plugin for you. Easily write and display your books on WordPress. Add covers, pages, table of contents, chapters, track progress with word counts and more. It’s currently difficult to recreate the feel of a book on WordPress – you either need to make your whole site into the ‘book’ or figure out complex work-arounds like creating your own taxonomies. WordPress’s own support section says “There are ways to use a blog to post long-form pieces in chapters, however, though it will require a bit of work.” BookPress solves all this for you! If your dream is to self-publish your novel, or to create a site where you can mix your blog, books and other features, BookPress is for you. This plugin includes – BookPress Features Write your book in WordPress and easily display it ‘like a book’ Add book elements such as covers, table of contents, dedication, copyright page, chapters, etc. Drop and drag book elements to reorder your book content ‘Book like’ page numbering – use Roman numerals for front matter and Arabic for body and end matter Automatic creation of Table of Contents with live links to jump to relevant page Sidebar widget to display your book and link to it Progress tracking – word counts for each element (eg chapter) and the whole book to help keep you motivated! Assign genres to books Translation ready Clean, easy to read front end book design that ‘feels like a book’ Front end display of book with sections, content, page numbering, etc. correctly formatted and sequenced BookPress Premium Create and display multiple books on your WordPress site (free version limited to a single book) Index tags to create a book index with live links to jump to page Additional sidebar widget enabling display of multiple books Front End ‘Library’ page shortcode to display and sort all your books by genre, author name, Book ID, and more. Footnotes – ability to add notes to the end of a page with a reference (a super text numeral) linking to a note Enhanced Progress Tracking – set targets for writing (e.g. words per week) and track your progress with graphs and statistics Translations (full or partial) Chinese (China) / 简体中文 Chinese (Hong Kong) / 香港中文版 German / Deutsch Polish / Polski Russian / Русский Links Documentation Project Site Premium Version Premium Version Trial/Demo to Play With! Donate to support plugin development