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

Descripción

We all have posts in the archive that deserve to turn evergreen. A series of guides from 2018 can still be the finest thing on your site, but only a handful of readers will ever scroll back far enough to find it all.

eBook Crafter gathers those posts, pages and custom post types into a PDF eBook without leaving WordPress. You pick the content, arrange and edit it in the block editor and build a PDF that reads perfectly on a screen and prints beautifully on paper.

Every finished PDF is saved to your Media Library. From there, you can sell it with WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads or FluentCart, offer it as a lead magnet in exchange for an email address or place it behind a membership plugin.

“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

If you would rather watch than read, here is the full walkthrough.

How it works

Three steps take you from scattered posts to a finished book.

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.

What will you make?

• 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.

What you get for free

• 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.

When you will want Pro

The books you create will some day outgrow the default engine, and you will recognize the moment. It might be a printed copy that needs a proper contents page, a lead magnet that should be set in your brand’s language and fonts, a course pack that has to work with a screen reader or a chapter heading stranded at the bottom of a page.

eBook Crafter Pro is a separate plugin that renders your book with the Prince engine and adds the following benefits. The free plugin has no locked features.

• 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.

Pro costs $39 a year for one site or $99 a year for five. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, a card is needed to begin and a 30-day money-back guarantee runs from the date of purchase. The Prince engine renders your book through DocRaptor in the US, and the FAQ below explains further.

Learn more about our Pro plans

External services

This plugin connects to the jsDelivr CDN to fetch Twemoji emoji images while a PDF is being built.

• What it does. The built-in PDF engine cannot draw the emoji installed on your server, so any emoji in your book content is replaced with the open-source Twemoji PNG image, fetched from jsDelivr (cdn.jsdelivr.net) and embedded in the PDF.
• What is sent, and when. A request goes out only when you build a PDF and only if the book contains emoji. It carries the Unicode codepoints of the emoji (as part of the image filename) and standard HTTP request metadata such as your server’s IP address. No personal data, book content or account information is sent, and nothing is requested while you browse or edit.
• Who provides it. jsDelivr. Read its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Twemoji artwork is licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

Source code

The JavaScript is built with @wordpress/scripts. The full source of every compiled file in build/ sits in the plugin’s src/ directory alongside the build configuration (package.json, webpack.config.js, postcss.config.js). Run npm install and then npm run build to rebuild. PHP dependencies in vendor/ are managed with Composer (composer.json), and each bundled library, including Dompdf, carries its own license and repository details in its headers.