Your PDF deserves better than a download link
Upload a PDF to WordPress and your visitors get a link that opens a new tab, takes ten seconds to load, and tells you nothing about whether anyone read past the cover.
Flipbooker turns that PDF into a hosted, page-turning flipbook and drops it into any post or page with a block or a shortcode. Readers stay on your site. The flipbook loads from Flipbooker's servers, so your WordPress install carries none of the weight.
Start on the free plan, or take a 14-day trial of any paid plan for $0 today.
Turn your posts into a flipbook
Pick published posts or pages from a selector in wp-admin and Flipbooker builds a flipbook from them — a quarterly magazine from your blog, a client-ready case study collection, a printable-feeling annual roundup — without exporting a PDF first.
No other flipbook plugin does this. The content is sent to Flipbooker as structured data; the page-turn, the layout and the hosting happen there.
A truly three-dimensional page curl
Most "3D" flipbook effects are a shadow gradient. Flipbooker's viewer bends the page along a true cylindrical curve, with lighting and specular highlights that roll across the paper as it turns and type that curves with it. The result is a more professional, polished look.
See which pages actually get read
A view count tells you someone saw your flipbook. It does not tell you that no reader ever gets past page four.
On Professional plans and above, Flipbooker reports which pages were read and for how long, per flipbook. On the Company plan that analysis shows the individual reader: who opened it, which pages they read, whether they came back, and when.
For a catalog, that lets you know what draws the most interest.
For a digital magazine or newsletter, that tells you the stories readers are most interested in.
For a lookbook, you can tell what your most captivating looks are, or even embed videos within the flipbook to capture more emotion.
How it works in WordPress
- Create a Flipbooker account and connect it once with an API key that's easy to find (stored securely using bank-level encryption).
- Add the Flipbooker block in the editor, or use the shortcode [flipbooker id="…"] anywhere a shortcode works — Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, widgets, or the classic editor. Width and height are attributes. There is no separate Elementor (or other page builder) widget needed.
- To build a flipbook from your posts, open Flipbooker → Dashboard, select the posts or pages, and create. Simple as that!
Update the flipbook in Flipbooker to have every embed auto-update with it. No re-configuration needed.
Why hosted with Flipbooker?
Self-hosted flipbook plugins keep the PDF on your server. That may sound simpler until your PDF is 80 MB, your host won't let you upload anything that size, and once you finally figure THAT out, the page takes 30 seconds to load.
Flipbooker converts and serves the flipbook from its own pro-grade infrastructure: no size limit on your WordPress host, mobile-optimized delivery from a CDN, rendering that won't peg your hosting plan's PHP memory limits. The plugin itself is a light embed, easy to use, and made to keep your Wordpress install feeling snappy.
Made for
Product catalogs, brochures, magazines and newsletters, restaurant menus, annual reports, proposals, training manuals, portfolios, ebooks and lead magnets. If it's anything that you wish you could send more easily, or wish that PDFs could be more dynamic, this
Plans and what you need
This plugin is free. It requires a Flipbooker account to operate.
- Free: Try out the platform and make sure you like it. And the below features on your free trial, if you decide to go forward:
- Starter: PDF download control and basic flipbook settings.
- Professional: page-level analytics, your own branding, embed and QR codes and more.
- Company: per-reader analytics, lead forms, white-label, API access.
Paid plans come with a 14-day free trial. The trial takes a card and charges nothing today. Free cancelation for 14 days once signed up.
Third-party service
This plugin connects to the Flipbooker service to validate your API key, list your flipbooks, create flipbooks from selected content, and embed the viewer from
flipbooker.com. Reading activity for flipbooks on plans that include analytics is recorded by Flipbooker. Terms:
https://flipbooker.com/terms · Privacy:
https://flipbooker.com/privacy
Privacy and reader data
Reading activity is recorded by Flipbooker's servers inside the flipbook, no site scripts needed, and only records flipbook activity, not anything else on your Wordpress install. The viewer sets no cookies. The one thing it keeps in the reader's browser (if used) is a cart for shoppable catalogs, in localStorage, so a selection survives a page turn. No Google Analytics or other service required or included. Per-reader data on the Company plan identifies readers by email only where you have gated the flipbook behind a magic link or they have filled out a lead form on that flipbook. Reading data is not sold or shared.