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MPL-Publisher – Self-publish your book & ebook

By Ferran Figueredo

Description

MPL – Publisher 📚 helps you self-publishing an ebook, print-ready PDF book, HTML for Kindle Direct Publishing, or audiobook from your WordPress posts. If you are an author ✍️, it will solve the “how to publish my digital book” problem, doing it the simplest possible way 👌, easing the process of converting your book or ebook to ePub, print-ready PDF, mp3, Kindle, Mobi… etc.

Writing a book successfully is a challenge by itself and publishing an ebook can be pretty painful without the right tools. But with Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon publishing, and other forms of self-publishing, publishing an ebook or audiobook can even be easy.

It is free to self-publish on the most popular ebook platforms. You just need a formatted ebook file to load to the publishing platforms. This is your completed, edited manuscript in specific formats: .mobi for Amazon, .ePub for the other stores, or PDF for print-ready books.

With our plugin, you can download in a matter of seconds your eBook from your WordPress blog in these formats. If you already have a WordPress site, you are ready to start selling online your self-published book.

The plugin is full of features (check the features section and roadmap to future releases) and open to any comments, bugs, or issues you may have. Use the MPL-Publisher Support Forum.

Features

For now, these are the current features:

  • Unlimited books per site with unlimited exports per book.
  • Advanced cover editor included (only available for premium).
  • Select indivicual chapters (posts, pages, and “secret chapters”) to include in your eBook.
  • Set basic information about your book: Title, Description, Authors, ISBN, Publisher, Book Cover.
  • Download your eBook as EPUB2.0, EPUB3.0, Markdown, Microsoft Word (Docx), Mobi, print-ready PDF, HTML for Kindle Direct Publishing, and Audiobook (mp3).
  • Add a widget to your sidebar to promote your book with your readers.
  • Promote your book using the shortcode [mpl] and their available options.
  • Basic filter and sort your chapters individually.
  • Add additional book chapters and edit current content.
  • Include your custom CSS styles into your books.

Roadmap

Future releases will include, at least, the next functionalities:

  • Multiple professional designs available.
  • Sell directly your ebook to your audience.

Requirements

  • PHP 7.1.8 or higher
  • WordPress 5.0 or higher

For further information, visit the MPL-Publisher plugin’s homepage

Alternatives to MPL-Publisher

There is a fantastic community of plugins available if MPL-Publisher doesn’t meet your criteria:

  • Print My Blog – Make printing your blog easy and impressive. For you & your visitors. One post or thousands.
  • BookPress – Books on WordPress made easy. Write and display your books: Add chapters, pages, table of contents, track word counts and more.
  • Anthologize – Use the power of WordPress to transform your content into a book.

Screenshots

  • Default screen
  • Sidebar widget and shortcode
  • iPad iBooks
  • iPad Amazon Kindle
  • Android Amazon Kindle

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

  1. Upload the uncompressed folder mpl-publisher to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Navigate to MPL-Publisher in your admin menu

To include a shortcode in your pages or posts

  1. Add the [mpl] shortcode into
  2. Available options are [mpl download=true] to include a download button and [mpl external=true] to include your book’s external links
  3. Modify your shortcode’s title using [mpl]Download my book[/mpl]

FAQ

I’m getting an error!

If you see something like:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in ../wp-content/plugins/mpl-publisher/vendor/illuminate/support/helpers.php on line 365

This error is related to the installed PHP version on your server. Please, make sure you follow the recommended WordPress requirements

If you have any other error, please use the MPL – Publisher support forum

Which output formats are supported?

Currently, we support EPUB2.0, EPUB3.0, Mobi, Microsoft Word (docx), Markdown, print-ready PDF, HTML for Kindle Direct Publishing, and Audiobook (mp3). You can choose it from the Output format’s select menu.

What about other formats?

In future releases, we will add further improvements to our current formats. Keep updated.

Reviews

Very easy interface and helpful developer

August 21, 2021
To be honest, I make a competing plugin, and I'm envious of MPL Publisher's slick user interface and how straightforward it is to use. And it produces some very nice-looking books. To top it off, its developer, Ferran, is a very friendly, helpful, and smart guy. 👍👍!

Frustrating

April 17, 2017
It attempts some nice features, but at the end of the day it is unusable because of frustrating limitations or poor implementation: All your posts are shown in what appears to be an arbitrary order while you can add custom "chapters", if you filter by category the chapters don't show up in the list and thus can't be added to your ebook changing the filters to limit the number of posts resets everything so you can't build your book a piece at a time: only the current filtered list of posts goes into the book only post titles are shown, so if you have two posts with the same or similar name you don't know which is which
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Contributors & Developers

“MPL-Publisher – Self-publish your book & ebook” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.30.0

  • Selected chapters will be kept and ordered on filtered results
  • Security risks avoided using Transient API to show admin notices
  • Updated Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Mobi generation library
  • Fix: Detect premium users on additional resources

1.29.2

  • Fix cover image not being saved appropriately
  • Added order option (ASC/DESC) on chapters list

1.29.0

  • Added new cover editor (only for MPL-Publisher premium)
  • Fix Word cover alignment and image size
  • Change tabs literals and modified content (Links are now part of Metadata)
  • Responsive improvements (buttons on XS and text-size)

1.28.0

  • Added Plain Text (txt) as new output format
  • Added tutorial/help section explaining main plugin features
  • Warning message before leaving the page without saving changes
  • Include TOC at the beginning of the document on Microsoft Word export
  • Support for WordPress 5.8

1.27.0

  • Fix error related with filter button not filtering results
  • Downgrade min WordPress version to 5.0
  • Allow br tags in book content
  • List chapters even if there are over max results

1.26.0

  • Added 2 new premium themes: Future and Romance ⭐
  • Enable Gutenberg editor for book chapter post type

1.25.0

  • From now on, you can manage multiples books for the same site
  • Added action to clear book information and start from scratch
  • Fix error loading remote placeholder image
  • Update PHP version requirements

1.24.0

  • Introducing Marketplace: resources and ideas to help you boost your book sales
  • Add image styles to keep alignment with WordPress editor
  • Remove custom styles on the “Download my eBook” widget
  • Fix parsing date error on Word file generation
  • Fix loading plugin translations and update them

1.23.0

  • Added experimental feature to embed images into book contents
  • Use rem instead of px on book styles
  • Fix error on saving premium license key

1.22.0

  • Tested up to WordPress 5.7 and PHP 8.0 (and bugfixing)
  • Optimize database query when loading chapters

1.21.0

  • Added new book theme! Check it out at our “🎨 Appeareance” tab
  • Premium ⭐ version doesn’t require a direct FTP upload anymore
  • Better usability messages on saving and error ✅
  • Improvements on our print-ready PDF premium formatting 📘

1.20.2

  • Hotfix changes using emoji library

1.20.1

  • Fix MOBI file generation
  • Update emojis with open-sourced Tweemojis

1.20.0

  • Updated search filters (filter posts and chapters by month)
  • Added Spanish, French, and Catalan translations
  • Premium publishers (print-ready PDF and Audiobook) generation improvements

1.19.0

  • Fix EPUB 2.0 and EPUB 3.0 validation errors
  • Clean HTML tags from content to prevent design errors
  • Change default content sorting to OLDER chapters first
  • Premium publishers (print-ready PDF and Audiobook) generation improvements

1.18.0

  • Move menu position outside the “Tools” section
  • Limit query results to avoid more than 150 results
  • Minor usability improvements on publishing actions

1.17.1

  • Fix annoying count error. Thanks lholfve!

1.17.0

  • Added print-ready PDF as output format

1.16.0

  • MPL-Publisher Premium ⭐ it’s available!
  • Added Audiobook (mp3) as output format
  • Pages can now be attached as book chapters
  • UX improvements and lots of emojis

1.15.1

  • Fixed error related with PHP min version

1.15.0

  • Update to WordPress 5.5

1.14.0

  • Allow filter posts by year (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-posts-by-yearmonth/)
  • Allow multiple themes loading and selection
  • Added hooks for plugin extensions (pending documentation)
  • Fix Markdown generation to include CSS files and fonts

1.13.0

  • Added MOBI as output format (Basic field, not ready for production)
  • Fix Draft Book Posts? issue
  • Fix “Read More” issue (Posts where printing only excerpts on the generated eBook)
  • Fix plugin page navbar and table styles
  • Update plugin dependencies

1.12.0

  • Added Microsoft Word (Docx) as output format
  • Custom CSS text area under the Appearance tab

1.11.0

  • Add MPL-Download eBook widget to promote your book with your readers
  • Shortcode to include your MPL-Download eBook using [mpl]
  • Added a “Links” tab to include related pages with your book, like Amazon or iBooks links
  • Improved tab navigation on responsive mobile
  • Fix language load_plugin_textdomain path

1.10.0

  • Added Serbian translation. Thanks to Andrijana from Web Hosting Geeks
  • Added Appearance’s tab to preview and choose your book design
  • New filter with content type selection
  • Download the book as a zip file with chapters in markdown format
  • Fix automatic line breaks into HTML paragraphs

1.9.0

  • Added French translation. Thanks to zebulong
  • You can add specific content as a chapter to your book without needing to be an existing published post
  • Added Copyright information field about your book
  • Added default CSS classes to book.css to ensure styles on images once the book is published
  • Added multiple tooltips to increase information about how the plugin works
  • Fix CSS mpl-pubisher.css namespace
  • Fix local timestamp on save information
  • Fix saved image source

1.8.0

  • Now you can save your changes for future publications
  • The chapter’s list shows also your private posts
  • Review plugin’s description and tags to improve visibility
  • Fix mobile/responsive button display

1.7.0

  • Improved admin’s page navigation using tabs
  • Add helping blocks to a better understanding
  • Add book publication’s date field and editable language field
  • Bug printing post’s edit link

1.6.0

  • Added authors filtering to chapter’s selection
  • Added tag filtering to chapter’s selection
  • Improve readme.txt description to provide server requirements information
  • Pending 1.5.0 Spanish and Catalan translations

1.5.0

  • Add Book Description
  • Sets Blog Language as Book Language

1.4.4

  • Fix “Class not found” error

1.4.0

  • Chapter’s selection filtered by posts categories
  • Fix HTTPS image request

1.3.0

  • Added EPUB3.0 as output format
  • Upload a Book Cover
  • Added meta-information about the generator
  • Corrected Spanish and Catalan translations

1.2.0

  • New default book style
  • Added Spanish and Catalan translation
  • Replace Twig with illuminate/view as the view engine
  • Fix duplicate ID chapter

1.1.0

  • Sort individual chapters manually

1.0.0

  • Initial release.

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  • Version: 1.30.0
  • Last updated: 1 week ago
  • Active installations: 100+
  • WordPress Version: 5.0 or higher
  • Tested up to: 5.8.1
  • PHP Version: 7.1.8 or higher
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