Publish a book on WordPress

  • basiclaser · Member ·

    Hey folks!

    I’m looking to publish something in between a blog in book format, and a book in blog format. I was wondering which themes and hacks you would suggest for achieving this.

    Requirements:
    Chronologically ordered posts. This means I can gradually post out chapters and new content with worrying that people will stumble across the middle of the book, instead people will see the first chapter first.

    A chapter navigation sidebar. For people who wish to jump into the book to a specific section, I’d like links to each chapter/post in the sidebar, again, ordered chronologically.

    Bookishness. I want the blog to have a simple ‘bookishness’ about it.

    Which themes/tweaks or even other blogging platforms would you suggest? Thanks!

  • timethief · Member ·

    Blogs are essentially a reverse chronological order publishing tool wherein the most recent published post will display on top. You cannot change this order on a free hosted WordPress.com blog. It’s designed to serve your visitors as they come to read the most recent posts and will not be inclined to trawl through hundreds of posts to locate it.

    See here for the option of creating a book-like structure > http://en.support.wordpress.com/write-a-book/ Perhaps that will work for you.

    Or you could use a single sticky post as an index page > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts

    Or you can falsify every date-stamp before publishing.

    See here for a comparison as WordPress.org will be a better fit for your needs > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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