eBook Crafter – Convert Posts to PDF eBooks, Ready to Print

"I've used eBook Crafter on my site, and was surprised at the quality of it. It worked very well with no bugs at all. It worked natively in the block editor too no problems!" — Blake Whittle, owner of Infinite Uploads

1. Gather. Search your posts, pages and custom post types from the sidebar and add them to your book as chapters. Lessons, recipes and products all count, as long as they are published in a post type.
2. Craft. Arrange your cover, chapters and back cover. A table of contents builds itself from your chapters, and you can fine-tune the content on every page in the block editor. eBook Crafter Pro adds ready-made book templates and your choice of fonts at this step.
3. Publish. Build the PDF and it is saved to your Media Library. With eBook Crafter Pro, the table of contents comes with accurate page numbers and the book is rendered ready for print.

• Travel bloggers. A city guide built from the posts you wrote during your voyages.
• Food bloggers. Your readers' favorite recipes, collected into a cookbook.
• Marketers. A lead magnet that trades what you know for an email address.
• Educators. Course packs and question banks from lessons in LearnDash, LifterLMS or TutorLMS.
• Photographers. A print-ready portfolio that clients can buy.
• Schools. A yearbook that holds a whole year in pictures and words.
• Company teams. A quarterly report compiled from the updates and case studies published on your site.
• Anyone. A book of memories you can hold in your hands and share with family and friends.

• An eBook post type of its own, kept apart from your posts and hidden from visitors.
• Page, Chapter and Table of Contents blocks for the block editor.
• A table of contents generated from your chapters, without page numbers.
• PDFs built on your own server, with no account or API key to set up.
• As many books as you like, of any length, with no watermark.
• An eBook Library where Editors and Administrators can find every build.
• Every PDF saved to the Media Library, where it stays even if you remove the plugin.

• Page numbers in the table of contents, so a reader holding a printed copy can find chapter four.
• Cleaner page breaks and sharper typography, with support for modern CSS layouts.
• Ready-made book templates, plus your own templates if you have a design in mind.
• Your choice of fonts. Literata, Source Sans 3 and Playfair Display come bundled, and 1,900+ Google Fonts are a search away.
• Tagged PDFs that screen readers can navigate.
• Unlimited watermarked previews, so you see exactly what Prince will produce before you commit, and 20 final exports a month per site, resetting on the 1st.
• Priority support and a direct say in what gets built next.

1. Install eBook Crafter from the Plugins screen in WordPress, or upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/ebookcrafter.
2. Activate it from the Plugins screen.
3. Open eBook Crafter in the admin menu, start a new eBook and add your first chapters.

• Security: updated the bundled Dompdf library to 3.1.6, which fixes six published vulnerabilities.
• Change: refreshed the WordPress.org banners and readme.

• Fix: a new eBook's cover subtitle was a third-level heading directly under the title, so screen readers reported a missing level. It is now second-level and looks the same.
• Change: an "Upgrade to Pro" button at the end of the eBook Crafter menu opens the pricing page in a new tab. It is hidden once Pro is active.

• Change: each Table of Contents entry now has a faint gray line beneath it in the editor.
• Change: a Chapter page now shows a short note on adding chapters from your posts using the sidebar.
• Change: the Table of Contents page is now locked. Its blocks cannot be added, moved or removed, the heading can still be renamed, and a note explains that the list is generated from your Chapter blocks.
• Change: the Page block's "Page Type" field is now a plain label instead of a dropdown. A page's role is decided by its position in the book and the Table of Contents toggle.
• Change: the Build tab now asks you to save before building, because the PDF is made from the saved eBook and unsaved edits were left out of the file.
• Fix: a Table of Contents entry could lead to the wrong chapter. Entries now come from one place, so each goes where it says.
• Fix: an eBook saved with an older version could lose its Table of Contents settings when reopened.
• Fix: content after a collapsible section or a set of columns lost its Table of Contents links and its pictures were left unoptimized. Only content above the first such block was being prepared for the PDF.
• Fix: building could fail on hosting without PHP's file-type detection. The picture's file extension is used instead.

• Fix: building no longer freezes when the book uses a picture that is missing from the server. The build leaves it out and the text closes up around it.
• Change: pictures loaded from another website get five seconds to answer, so a slow or unreachable site cannot hold up your PDF.
• Fix: opening a book no longer freezes the editor. The list of posts, post types and categories now loads the first time you open the "Add Chapter from Post Types" panel.
• Fix: adding many chapters at once no longer locks up the editor. Book styling is applied in a single pass, and a spinner with a live count shows progress.
• Change: the Post Type list for adding chapters hides types that never hold book content, such as WordPress internals, templates and WooCommerce order plumbing. Products remain. Developers can adjust the list with the ebookcrafter.chapterPostTypes filter.
• Change: the eBook Library is open to Editors as well as Administrators and lists every build. Deleting a PDF requires permission to edit its book, and a PDF whose book was deleted can be cleared by any Editor or Administrator. Developers can change access with the ebookcrafter/library_capability filter.
• Fix: after a bulk delete in the eBook Library, a notice says how many PDFs were deleted and how many were skipped for lack of permission.

• Compatibility: tested with WordPress 7.1

• Security: local image URLs are mapped to files on disk more strictly during PDF generation, so book content can no longer reference a file outside the plugin, uploads or wp-content directories.
• Fix: images with a cache-busting query string (for example ?ver=123) now embed correctly.
• Fix: images with percent-encoded characters in the filename, such as spaces, now embed correctly.
• Fix: images referenced over http:// on an https:// site are recognized as local and read from disk rather than fetched over the network.

• First free release on WordPress.org, with PDFs built by Dompdf.