Author Archives: feedfabrik
System Upgrade
We’re performing some scheduled maintenance work today as we upgrade our systems. Unfortunately, this will involve some downtime of our bookfabrik blogbook service. Everything should be back to normal on Thursday – and with the new machines, the blogbook layout process should be much faster as well As a little bonus, we’ll also release our [...]
Add an index to your blogbook
Some blogs make heavy use of tags or categories. So we thought: wouldn’t it be nice to take this information and create something meaningful in a printed book? Well, here is our suggestion: add an index to your book! Our new feature allows you to have all tags collected and compiled to a special appendix [...]
Review on Stockpress
German blogger Wolfgang Stock has written a nice review about our blogbook service on his blog Stockpress.de. If you would like to practice your German language skills, please head over and take a look. Thanks for the kind words!
Start chapters on a fresh page
We had quite a few requests to introduce a new layout feature for our books. Until recently, all book chapters were laid out one after the other regardless of page breaks. This is quite normal for a typical book. But now you have an alternative option. If you like, you can now opt to start [...]
New WordPress shortcode support for video
In a recent post we wrote about our video support when you create your blogbooks. Supported platforms are Youtube, Vimeo and Xtranormal. However, things are a bit more tricky when you’re on WordPress.com or WordPress.org. The WordPress platform uses shortcodes to include videos in the blog posts. That means, it is not enough for us [...]
Announcing WordPress.com Partnership
We’re very happy to announce a new partnership with WordPress.com. The team at WordPress.com has developed a new authentication mechanism to help third-party developers like ourselves to securely connect with WordPress.com blogs. The technology is based on the popular OAuth standard. In essence, it means that you no longer need to enter your username and [...]
Twitter Updates for 2011-09-07
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Select post authors for your blogbook
In our last post, we wrote about the new feature of selecting the tags (or labels, categories, however your blog platform names it) of the posts that you would like to see in your blog. That’s very helpful when you cover a wide range of content and would like to print a subset like a [...]
Select posts by tag / category
Many of you asked for it, finally we got it! It is now possible to select the blogposts for the book by tag. Before, the only option was to use the datepicker to define a range of posts for the blogbook. Now, you can also hand-pick the tags to be included. The logic is that [...]
Video Support
This is great news for us (and many of you). We’ve just released one of our most exciting updates of our blogbook software. The new version now comes with video support. Video support was one of the most requested features and we have to admit it took us a bit too long to get it [...]
