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

eBook Crafter turns your existing posts, pages and custom post types into PDF eBooks, right from inside WordPress. Gather your finest content, edit it in the native block editor and export into PDF format, ready to read on screen or print on paper.

Finished PDFs automatically appear in your Media Library, where you can sell them as digital products, gate behind a membership plugin or send to print.

Check out the full video walkthrough of eBook Crafter:

From published posts to a product

Every post you publish gets its traffic once and then goes into the archive. If you package that content as an eBook, the same content becomes something readers will be willing to pay for, sign up to gain access, or print and share offline. eBook Crafter handles the whole process where your content has already been created and saved.

What will you make with eBook Crafter?

• Travel bloggers – Sell travel guides built from posts you’ve published.
• Food bloggers – Collect your readers’ favorite recipes into a book people will happily pay for.
• 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 and preserve.

Three main steps to a finished PDF

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.
3. Publish – Export a PDF and it will be automatically added to your Media Library. From there, you can then sell it with WooCommerce, attach it to an opt-in form or gate it behind a membership.

Free features

• Custom eBook post type
• Page, Chapter and Table of Contents blocks
• Local PDF generation with DOMPDF
• PDF version history in the media library

Ready to take eBook creation to the next level? Meet Pro

The free version is great for getting started with a basic PDF. eBook Crafter Pro renders your book with the following benefits:
1. It includes Prince for high-fidelity rendering and print-grade typography.
2. You get pre-made book templates, and the ability to add your own templates and custom fonts.
3. Automatic page numbers are included in the table of contents
4. Advanced support for acessibility is available in PDFs through Prince – your eBook will work well with screen readers and meets common accessibility and archiving standards. Learn more.
4. Get priority support and a direct say in feature requests for the future roadmap of eBook Crafter.

Pro features are provided entirely by the separate Pro plugin. This plugin contains no locked functionality.

External services

This plugin connects to the jsDelivr CDN to fetch Twemoji emoji images during PDF generation.

• What it is and what it is used for: The bundled DOMPDF engine cannot render system emoji glyphs, so any emoji found in your book content are replaced with the open-source Twemoji PNG images, fetched from jsDelivr (cdn.jsdelivr.net) and embedded into the PDF.
• What data is sent and when: Only when you generate a PDF and only if the book content contains emoji. The request contains the Unicode codepoints of the emoji being rendered (as part of the image filename) and standard HTTP request metadata (such as your server’s IP address). No personal data, content, or account information is transmitted. No requests are made while browsing or editing.
• Service provider: jsDelivr — Terms of Service, Privacy Policy. The Twemoji artwork is licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

Source code

This plugin’s JavaScript is built with @wordpress/scripts. The complete source of every compiled file in build/ is included in the plugin’s src/ directory, with the build configuration (package.json, webpack.config.js, postcss.config.js).

To rebuild the compiled assets:

1. npm install
2. npm run build

PHP dependencies in vendor/ are managed with Composer (composer.json); the bundled libraries (such as Dompdf) each carry their own license and repository information in their headers.