Converting blogs into book form…

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    bibendum1 · Member ·

    Hi, is there a fairly easy way I can convert my blogs into book form – I would like to publish them in several books…

    Thanks,

    Sheila Mason

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    aisajib · Member ·

    Hi there!

    When you say ‘convert my blogs into book form’ do you mean to print the blog posts into a book or do you mean to display your blog posts like a blog (in chronological order, for example)?

    If it’s the latter, we have some instructions here that you may find useful: https://wordpress.com/support/write-a-book/

    We don’t have a way to print an entire blog into a book. There may be third-party services or plugins that offer this feature. To use plugins on a WordPress.com site, you will need the WordPress.com Business plan. Alternatively, you can install WordPress locally on your computer, export from your WordPress.com site, import into your local site, and then use a plugin like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/print-my-blog/

    Note that the plugin above is not an official suggestion. I searched on Google and found this as an option. Feel free to search on Google for more options.

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Hi there, hope you don’t mind me adding to this conversation.

    I’ve used this online utility before https://www.blogbooker.com/ and there’s https://www.fastpencil.com/ and I know there are other such utilities out there as well (but their names escape me).

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    aisajib · Member ·

    Hi Jen,

    Thanks for adding your suggestions! I haven’t used either of them before, but it’s great to know that you did. I guess they worked fine when you tried them?


    @bibendum1    , per Jen’s suggestion above, you can try those tools to see if they work for your needs. To reiterate, you can get an export of your site by following the instructions here: https://wordpress.com/support/export/

    Then you can upload the file on sites like blogbooker.com to try out their services.

    If you end up trying them, feel free to let us know how that goes. :)

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Hi @aisajib I’ve used blogbooker, but only with their free account where you upload your site XML and download a PDF of your site posts. They also have a paid version where you can get your posts in an editable format.

    Fastpencil has been around for quite some time as well, but I don’t believe I’ve used their services myself. They’ve been suggested along with blogbooker in other forum replies by both staff and volunteers. So NAYY, YMMV ;) Hope that helps too.

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