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

• Travel bloggers - Sell travel guides built from posts you've published.
• Food bloggers - Collect your readers' favorite recipes into a book.
• Marketers - Create lead magnets to trade expert knowledge for email addresses.
• Educators - Turn lessons from LifterLMS, TutorLMS or LearnDash into course packs and question banks. Pull in the relevant custom post types, edit in the block editor and export your PDF in minutes.
• Photographers - Present your best work in a print-ready format clients can buy.
• Students and teachers - Build yearbooks to capture a school year in pictures and text.
• Anyone - Preserve your memories in a book you can print.

1. Gather - Search your posts, pages and custom post types and pull them into your book as chapters.
2. Craft - Arrange cover pages and chapters and a table of contents will be auto-added. Next, fine-tune content for every page in the block editor interface. Pro will let you add pre-made templates and custom fonts to your PDF eBooks.
3. Publish - Export a PDF and it will be automatically added to your Media Library. If you're using Pro, you'll get page numbers added to your table of contents. Once your eBooks are in the Media Library, you can then sell them with WooCommerce, attach them to an opt-in form or gate them behind a membership.

• Custom eBook post type
• Page, Chapter and Table of Contents blocks
• Basic PDF generation, with a default template and no page numbers in Table of Contents
• PDF eBooks saved in the Media Library
• No limits on the number of PDFs created
• No page limits
• No watermarks

1. The Prince PDF engine to create eBooks with sharper typography, accurate page numbers in the Table of Contents, cleaner breaks between pages and support for modern CSS layouts.
2. Pre-made book templates, and the ability to add your own templates and custom fonts from among 1,900+ Google Fonts.
3. Unlimited watermarked previews with Prince, plus 20 final exports every 30 days.
4. Tagged PDFs through Prince, so screen readers can navigate your eBook.
5. Priority support and a direct say in feature requests for the future roadmap of eBook Crafter.

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/ebookcrafter directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress.
3. Open eBook Crafter in the admin menu to create your first eBook.

• Change: each entry in the Table of Contents now has a faint gray line beneath it in the editor.
• Change: a Chapter page now shows a short note in the editor explaining how to add chapters from your posts using the sidebar.
• Change: the Table of Contents page is now locked - its blocks can no longer be added, moved or removed, though the heading text can still be renamed - and a note in the editor explains that its 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 - cover, table of contents, chapter, or back cover - 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. A PDF is made from the saved eBook, so a change still in the editor - a contents page you had just switched off, say - was left out of the file you got back.
• Fix: an entry in the Table of Contents could lead to the wrong chapter. They now come from one place, so every entry goes where it says it does.
• Fix: an eBook saved with an older version could lose its Table of Contents settings when reopened.
• Fix: everything following a collapsible section or a set of columns lost its Table of Contents links, and pictures in those parts were left unoptimized. Only the content above the first such block was being prepared for the PDF.
• Fix: building could fail on hosting that does not offer PHP's file-type detection. The picture's file extension is used instead.

• Fix: building a PDF could freeze when the book used a picture that is no longer on the server - one deleted from the Media Library, say, or content imported without its images. The build now leaves that picture out and keeps going, so the text closes up around it instead of the Build tab sitting at part-way and never finishing.
• Change: pictures loaded from another website are given five seconds to answer while a book is being built. A slow or unreachable site can no longer hold up your PDF.
• Fix: opening a book in the editor could freeze the page for several seconds, and longer for books with many pages. Every page loaded your posts, post types and categories as soon as the book opened, even though that list is only used for adding chapters. It now loads the first time you view the "Add Chapter from Post Types" panel on a chapter page.
• Fix: adding many chapters at once no longer locks up the editor. Book styling was applied one block at a time, so twenty chapters meant thousands of separate updates; they are now applied in a single pass. A spinner and a live count (Processing chapter 3 of 20) show progress while chapters are added.
• Change: the Post Type list for adding chapters now hides types that never hold book content, such as WordPress internals, book templates, invoice and form templates, and WooCommerce order plumbing. Products remain available. Developers can adjust the list with the ebookcrafter.chapterPostTypes filter.
• Change: the eBook Library is now open to Editors as well as Administrators, and lists every build. Deleting a PDF now requires permission to edit the book it was built from, and a PDF whose book has since been deleted can be cleared by any Editor or Administrator. Developers can change who has access with the ebookcrafter/library_capability filter.
• Fix: after a bulk delete in the eBook Library, a notice now says how many PDFs were deleted and how many were skipped for lack of permission.

• Compatibility: tested with WordPress 7.1

• Security: hardened how local image URLs are mapped to files on disk during PDF generation, so an image in your book content can no longer reference a file outside the plugin, uploads or wp-content directories
• Fix: images whose URLs carry a cache-busting query string (for example ?ver=123) now embed correctly instead of appearing as broken images
• 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 now recognized as local and read from disk rather than fetched over the network

• WordPress.org free release based on Dompdf for PDF generation.