Overview
Turn your PDF catalogs, magazines and brochures into realistic page-turning flipbooks, hosted on your own WordPress site. Gutenberg block, shortcode, thumbnails, zoom and full screen.
- Your PDF catalogs become real page-turning booklets
- Readable on phones, no download needed
- Hosted on your own site
Best for: Catalogs, magazines, brochures and menus
Installation
- Download e-reader-pdf-flipbook.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
- In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.
- Add the "Flipbook" block to a page, or paste the shortcode shown in the "Embed this flipbook" box.
Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.
Features
- Realistic page-turn effect: click, drag a corner, swipe on touch screens, hard cover
- Two-page spreads on desktop, single pages on mobile
- Progress bar with a live preview of the target page
- Thumbnail strip, magnifier up to 400%, full screen
- Page-turn sound (can be muted by visitors, or replaced with your own audio file)
- Ambient light: the background takes on the colors of the open pages
- Shareable links that open the flipbook at a specific page
- Optional PDF download button
- Gutenberg block (wide and full width) and shortcode
- On-demand rendering: handles PDFs with hundreds of pages
- Lazy loading: the PDF only downloads when the viewer comes into view
- Translation-ready (French included)
Shortcodes
Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.
[ereader][liseuse]
Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.
Updates
Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.
Frequently asked questions
Which shortcode should I use?
`[ereader id="12"]`, with the optional `height="500"` and `page="3"` attributes. To show a PDF without creating a flipbook: `[ereader pdf="https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/catalog.pdf"]`.
My PDF does not open
The PDF must be hosted on your site (or served with a CORS header) and must not be password-protected.
How should I prepare my PDF?
Export it as single pages, not spreads (two pages already joined): the viewer builds the spreads itself.
Does it work on phones?
Yes. On narrow screens the flipbook shows one page at a time and pages turn with a swipe.
Still stuck?
Write to us with your WordPress and WooCommerce versions and what you tried: we answer by email.