The long awaited multi-author extension is now available for purchase. The main Novelist plugin is designed under the assumption that one person (the site owner) is the author of all books on the site. The new multi-author extension changes this; it allows you to create different author profiles and assign different authors to each book. […]
Preview of the Multi-Author Extension (Great for Publishers!)
Novelist is designed for authors websites. The assumption is that you – the site creator – are the author of each book that’s added into the system. But I recently spoke to a designer who was creating a website for a publisher. This publisher wanted an author directory that an archive of several authors, and each […]
Display Your Book’s Purchase Links Twice
One author approached me asking how to display the purchase links twice on a book page. She wanted them listed at the beginning of the page, and again at the end. This feature isn’t built into Novelist, but I whipped up a quick plugin that allows her to do just that. This add-on plugin adds […]
Set a “Cover Coming Soon” Image for Your Unpublished Books
Novelist version 1.1 was just released and it comes with a new feature that allows you to set a default book cover image. This default image is used if you don’t upload a cover image to a book. Instead of showing no cover, it will fall back to this default. This is a great and easy […]
How to Use Images for Your Book’s Purchase Links
The Novelist plugin allows you to set up purchase links for your books. Each purchase link has a template associated with it. Here’s the default template for Amazon: <a href="[link]" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amazon</a> This is an HTML link. On your public book page, it just looks like plain text. But with a little tweak of the […]
How to Disable the Novelist Genre Archives
Novelist allows you to assign genres to your books. Each genre then comes with its own archive page that shows all books listed under that genre. When you view your book page, each genre links to its associated archive. But not everyone wants these archive pages, particularly because the format of these pages depends on […]