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WordPress eBook Export

This is a very very early development release of a plugin for WordPress to export a category as an eBook, currently only ePub. Some features don’t work and many are not implemented.

Anyway, use at your own risk.
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Git repository.

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  • Bastian

    Hi, cool idea, do you still develop this plugin? Would be interesting to insert more than one categories. And PDF-Creation would be cool, too (but very difficult to develop, I think)….

  • http://blogs.sorrowfulunfounded.com/chrisclarke/ Christopher Clarke

    Hi Bastian,

    Thanks for your suggestion.

    I am still developing the plugins but my progress has been slow due to other commitments (school).

    I'm planning to add PDF output to my other plugin, WordPress eBook Export – you can find it in the sidebar and it currently only outputs ePub. I should mention its in a very early stage of development, so its not really recommended for use yet unless your adventurous. I put this plugin on hold since I was having difficulty implementing MobiPocket which is the eBook format used on the Amazon Kindle. I haven't been able to solve the issue of how to do mobipocket, so I'm planning to continue anyways.

    I mention this plugin since you should be able to use the software available at http://epub2pdf.com/ to convert the ePub book the plugin creates to a PDF. I haven't tested this though.

    As for multiple categories, I'll put it on my TO DO list and probably release something in June.

  • Bastian

    Hi Chris,

    I allready activated the plugin and will test it soon (don't have a mobile device for testing yet, but iPad is comming :-)

    Probably it's no big deal to customize the output, as ePup contains css-files, too? So users might style the book a little bit…

    Mobipocket is probably a kind of zip-format like ePup, too? I don't know.

    Thanks for the epub2pdf-link. It's a desktop-application, right? I tried to install contuttopdf-plugin for wordpress, but doesn't work with my blog. The plugin allows you to create separate templates for the pdf-output. But I think it doesn't allow pagination, so probably no use for creating real pdf-eBooks. Another solutions I know is fivefilters.org, can be hosted on your server (open code, so maybee interesting) or the web-service zinepal.com, that provides pdf, epub and mobi-format from your rss-feed.

    Well, quite interesting, but unfortunately I am not a programmer … I allways looked for a solution, that allows visitors to create personalized books out of your wordpress-content, in ePup, PDF or whatever format. As the attention for classical book-formats is rising with Kindle and iPad, this might become more interesting in future, I hope…
    Greetings

  • http://blogs.sorrowfulunfounded.com/chrisclarke/ Christopher Clarke

    Yes, ePub contains CSS files. The default CSS is located in the plugins templates/ePub folder as titlepage.css and style.css (mostly chapters).

    I was hoping MobiPocket was like that but it turns out its some proprietary Palm (think Palm Pilot/Pre) database file and unfortunately nothing exists for PHP to work with them. It's possible to use another application from PHP but I don't think most users of the plugin will be able to take advantage of this. It's not likely to work on shared hosting.

    Do you mean like the books feature Wikipedia offers? (allowing visitors to create custom ebooks of content)

    Yes, epub2pdf is a desktop app though I think its command line. It should be simple enough to use.

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