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GS Books Showcase – Book Library, Book Grid & Book Slider for Authors

GS Books Showcase – Book Library, Book Grid & Book Slider for Authors

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Grid design with hover effect.

Grid design with hover effect.

GS Books Showcase turns your WordPress site into a book library. Add each book once with its cover, description, publication date, ISBN and page count, then show your books anywhere as a grid or slider. Every book gets its own page or popup, so readers can see the details without leaving your books page.

Pick a design in the shortcode builder, see it in the live preview, and paste one shortcode or block.

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Who it’s for

  • Authors: a books page with every title you’ve written, with links to buy.
  • Publishers: your catalog, organized by category and series.
  • Libraries, schools and book clubs: reading lists and collections.
  • Book bloggers and reviewers: the books you’ve read and reviewed, with ratings.

Why site owners choose GS Books Showcase

  • Made for books: fields for ISBN-10, ISBN-13, publication date, page count, dimensions, e-book file size and download link.
  • Set up in minutes: a dedicated Books menu, a shortcode builder with live preview, and one-click demo data.
  • Looks right on every screen: set columns for desktop, tablet and mobile.
  • Works with your builder: Gutenberg block, Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, Beaver Builder, Oxygen and the Newspaper theme.

Free features

  • Grid and slider views with 3 designs.
  • Shortcode builder with live preview: create, edit, clone and delete book shortcodes.
  • Open books in a popup or on a single book page.
  • Book details: cover, description, publication date, ISBN-10, ISBN-13, pages, dimensions, e-book file size and download link.
  • Categories and tags, with labels you can rename.
  • Slider controls: speed, autoplay, delay, loop, pause on hover and items to move.
  • Slider arrow and dot styles.
  • Typography settings for titles, authors, labels and values.
  • Pagination.
  • Unlimited books.
  • Export and import books, plus one-click demo data.
  • Custom book slug, custom CSS and template overrides in your child theme.
  • Translation ready, with every front-end label editable.

Pro features

GS Books Showcase Pro adds:

  • Buy links: bookstore buttons with logos, plus formats (hardcover, paperback, e-book, audiobook) each with its own price and link.
  • Filter view with live search and filters, and a ticker view.
  • 31 more designs, including flip, 3D book, author, widget and PDF designs.
  • PDF books: upload a PDF and show it in a reader on the book page.
  • Authors, genres, series and publishers, with author pages.
  • More book details: translator, co-publisher, ASIN, DOI, LCCN, weight, price, sale price, availability, pre-order, age group, reading level, edition, awards and reading time.
  • Readers’ rating and review for each book.
  • Book gallery and cover variations.
  • Ribbons such as “New” or “Bestseller”.
  • More popup and single book page designs.
  • Import book details from Open Library by ISBN, plus CSV bulk import.
  • Drag-and-drop custom order.
  • Priority email support.

Plans start at $49 per year, with a 7-day money-back guarantee. Compare Pro plans.

How it works

  1. Go to Book Showcase > Add New. Add the title, description and cover, then fill in the publication date, ISBN and other details, and choose a category.
  2. Go to Book Showcase > Shortcode, create a shortcode and pick a view and design. The live preview updates as you change settings.
  3. Copy the shortcode, for example [gs_bookshowcase id=2], into any page or post, or use the GS Books block or widget in your page builder.

Each shortcode has three tabs:

  • General: view, design, link type (popup or single page), columns per device and which details to show.
  • Style: image effects, typography, text alignment, and slider arrows and dots.
  • Query: how many books to show, sorting, and which categories and tags to include or exclude.

Shortcode usage

[gs_bookshowcase id=2]

In a theme file:

<?php echo do_shortcode( '[gs_bookshowcase id=2]' ); ?>

See the documentation for every option.

Support

Free users get help in the WordPress.org support forum. Pro users get priority email support through our help desk. We reply as soon as we can, excluding holidays.

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