The plugin helps printing your blog as PDF or real book via feedfabrik.com
To download the plugin, go to the WordPress.org plugin directory.
Description
The plugin provides an easy and direct interface with feedfabrik.com to help you convert your blog into a book or ebook. The creation of a blogbook is automatic and takes only a few seconds. You can choose a cover, select the range of posts and choose some other options.
Printproof PDF files of your blogbooks including cropmarks for professional printing can be downloaded for free. If you would like to have a real printed book in soft- or hardcover, you will have to pay for the manufacturing and shipping. These books start below USD/EUR 10.
There is nothing to configure in the plugin itself. After activation of the plugin, a new menu entry called “Print” will appear in the Tools section of the admin interface. If you click on “Print” you will see a simple page with a button called “Print My Blog”. Clicking the button will transfer you over to http://www.feedfabrik.com where your blogbook is created automatically.
The result is almost but not fully the same compared to going over to http://www.feedfabrik.com/bookfabrik and logging in with your user credentials to produce a blogbook. The plugin can take advantage of your individual WordPress setup when the layout of your book is produced. The key advantages using the plugin are:
- You have direct access to your blogbook preview from the blog admin interface without login to feedfabrik.com
- You do not need to share your password with feedfabrik.com for the data access
- You only grant Feedfabrik read access to your blog – there is no need to enable the standard XML-RPC API that also
grants write and delete access
In short, the plugin is more convenient and more secure than other ways of interfacing.
Installation
There is nothing to configure. Installation is similar to other plugins:
- Upload
feedfabrik.zipto the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Unzip
feedfabrik.zip - Login to your admin interface of WordPress and activate the plugin in the Plugins section
- Done
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the plugin free?
Yes, you can download it for free and use it as you see fit.
Is the plugin secure?
Yes, it opens a more secure communication channel to feedfabrik.com than the standard WordPress XML-RPC interface provides. It does that by generating a random unique token that grants external access to your blog. This access however is only valid for reading blog content and not for writing or deleting. The token expires within one hour.
As a result, you can exchange your blog data with feedfabrik.com without sharing your password and without the worry that something bad might happen to your blog data. You can also leave the standard XML-RPC interface disabled, as this would open a potential write and delete access to your blog.
Is it complicated to create a blogbook?
No. The moment you click on the Print button, the data is exchanged automatically and your blogbook is created automatically as a first suggestion using some default settings. Just sit back and watch the progress bar.
Can I preview my blogbook?
Certainly you can! After the book is prepared, you will see a flipbook viewer that allows you turn the pages and view exactly how the book looks like. You can zoom in on the images and text or view it full screen
Can I change the layout of my blogbook?
There are a number of layout options available to you and we’re adding more all the time. Currently, * You have a choice of cover designs * You can select a date range for the posts to be converted into a blogbook * You can choose if hyperlinks from your posts should appear as footnotes * You can have the names of the post authors printed along with the posts * You can have the dates of the posts printed along with the posts * You can choose if you have your book in reversed chronological order (blog style) or in chronological order
Is the resulting book for free?
Yes, you can download a high-quality PDF file for free that comes with crop-marks for professional printing.
We do however charge for printed books or normal PDF files.
What type of printed books do you offer?
All printed books right now are in standard A5 size.
You have a choice of
- Full colour printing vs. black-and-white printing
- Hardcover vs. softcover
- White vs. creme vs. photo paper
What is the price of a printed book?
The price very much depends on the length of your blogbook and the type of book you would like to have. Generally speaking, colour is more expensive than black-and-white, hardcover is more expensive than softcover and photo paper is also more expensive.
Books start as low as USD/EUR 10 but obviously can get expensive if you have hundreds of pages in full-color. The price will be shown directly next to your book when you are on feedfabrik.com so you will always be clear about it.
Why do you charge for this?
Well, printing a real book costs money. Simple as that.
How many books do I have to order?
You don’t have to order a single book if you don’t like it. But if you like it, you can order as few as one book only. We print all books individually using advanced digital printing technologies. There is no minimum order.
Do you ship to the U.S.?
Yes, we ship to North America, Europe and Australia. Other countries are on request but might carry extra shipping charges.
I have another question
- Please visit us at Feedfabrik
- If something doesn’t work, get in touch with support. We’re here to help!
Screenshots
A new Print button appears in the Tools menu
After clicking on ‘Print My Blog’ you will get straight to the preview of your blogbook
Changelog
1.9
- Fix broken downward compatibility for pre 3.2 installations
1.8
- Introduce encrypted communication for token exchange
- Introduce direct link to customer care
- Improve stability
- Improve compatibility with WordPress 3.2
- Provide option to like us on Facebook
1.7
- Introduce support for shortcodes, especially gallery
- Fix a bug where pages were loaded together with posts in rare occasions
- Fix an incompatibility that sometimes caused problems with pre WordPress 3.0 blogs
1.6
- Remove unnecessary bit of code that causes trouble in some setups and is redundant anyway
1.5
- Optimized fallback database queries for SQL memory constraints with very large blogs
1.4
- Fix PHP4 incompatibilities that stopped the plugin from working on some setups
- Introduce version check of plugin
- Introduce a fix for environments with memory constraints
1.3
- Changed authentication to more secure read-only access
- Fixed a bug that lead to a “technical error” during book production
- Improved data pre-processing to capture more of the blog formatting
1.2
- Fixed a bug for WP 2.8 installations
1.1
- Fixed a bug for WP 2.8 installations
- Improved error messages to user if API fails
1.0
- First Release.
25 Comments
Hey and Hallo,
where can i download the Plugin? I don’t find it here.
THX
Thomas
That’s true. You’ve been faster than the folks at WordPress.org who needed a good day or so to provide us with access to the WordPress plugin directory.
However, things are sorted and we’re uploading it right now to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedfabrik
Plese give it a try and let us know how this works and where we can improve!
Hey Thx a lot.
It be instaled so fast and works faster i think.
Great it was on 3 more blogs by me. Hope all other do it in next time.
I installed it Global on http://bloghostr.de for all WP Blogger. I am not WordPress that don’t install Plugins the user want.
Thanks
Thomas
Thanks for installing it on bloghostr.de! I just gave it a spin and there is a bug due to a WordPress change of function names.
We’ll do a fix tomorrow.
If the posts could be selected by a category that would make this much more useful.
We will introduce this early 2011.
My site makes heavy use of visual icons and tables to organize the data – that organization is the only thing that sets it apart from hundreds of similar sites. Why are the icons moved to the center of the page above the item to which the refer (they are always to the left on the site) and why are the table formats removed? At first I was excited about the ebook form – I quickly became disillusioned. Is this something that will be repaired or should I seek a different plugin?
Our layouting algorithm currently does not work well with complicated table layouts. It works best with running text. While we would like to fix that in the future, we don’t have a timeline for this feature yet.
Images are treated as independent elements that are nested in the text flow between paragraphs. That’s why you see them in the center of the page.
It’s important to keep in mind that we don’t try to “print a webpage”. That is something you should do with your browser. We rather try to convert the web layout into a professional book layout. But as you experienced, some things are just not that straight forward to convert.
Hi, I just uploaded my entire blog but while it says it should have 500+ images in the book, only a few of them seem to be showing. Is there something I am doing wrong?
Thanks
Simone
Btw… love this plugin!!
That is certainly a bug in our system. We will take a look at our logfiles and get back to you by personal email.
Hi,
I have just installed this through WordPress wp-admin. But I don’t see the new “Print” under Tools….
What should I do?
Nevermind! It showed up now!
Ok, another problem now.
When I click Print My Blog, I get this error as it loades the feedfabrik page:
An unusual error occurred.
We appologize, please try again!
If this happens more than once, please contact us at: support@feedfabrik.com
This happened more than once… What should I do?
You should contact us at support@feedfabrik.com and please write us the address of your blog so that we can search for it in our server log files and investigate the problem.
I’m sure we’ll get it sorted for you!
I have a very large site,and it takes a while to download. I am wondering if feedfabrik.com keeps it stored, or will I have to download it each time?
You also mentioned choosing by Category is coming in 2011. Can you give an update on this?
Thanks — UnrulyGuides
No, we do not store your data due to our privacy policy. You will have to download it each time you produce a book.
However, we do plan to give customers the option to store the finished book for reorders.
The Category update is in the making. It is currently delayed by our efforts to adopt Typepad and tumblr as additional platforms. But you can expect it in the first half of 2011.
It seems like your print function will print also private posts. Sometimes it is ok, but sometime you want to keep your private posts hidden. How to make that happen.
It should not print private posts. Drafts and private posts are filtered out. But maybe you discovered a bug?
Please get in touch with us via the support page with a link to your blog so that we can verify and fix this.
Hello,
I have the print button, but a message says I have no blog! Actually my WP site hase only pages. Does the plugin works with pages?
Unfortunately, we cannot print WordPress pages but only posts right now. You are not the first one asking for a printing of pages and we have this on our list of future featues. However, right now I can’t really say when we’re getting our head round implementing it.
plug in not recognized by the blog print feedfabrik website.
It says,,, you need the plugin to be installed… it is installed but I still get this warning
I am redirected to the front-page of this blog here.
is there a working update of the plugin please.
Please get in touch with our support at support@feedfabrik.com and let us know the address of your blog. We will investigate what’s going on and fix it.
This should be fixed. If not, please send us an email at support@feedfabrik.com
I created a ebook, but some posts can’t show all words in my ebook.
I think that it’s maybe too many words in a line, and the last words can’t show in the ebook(PDF or free proof).
ex.
the posts in my blog is “沉默的技術，在一般諮商的四個階段中，最適合運用的，是屬於那個階段？（A）涉入階段（B）探索階段（C）了解階段（D）行動階段【95嘉義台南高雄屏東國中】”
and the ebook shows “沉默的技術，在一般諮商的四個階段中，最適合運用的，是屬於那個階段？（A）涉入”
The last words are all missing.
The other question
Can I only select category to export my posts?
Thanks!
Please write to our support at support@feedfabrik.com and send us a link to your blog. We will investigate what’s going on.
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