Rating: 5 stars
We love Pressbooks Textbooks and the Open Textbooks theme. Much of the plugin’s functionality has gradually been absorbed into core Pressbooks over time, but this plugin has been and remains an absolutely indispensable tool for anyone interested in using Pressbooks to publish open textbooks for use in higher education.
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Plugin won’t activate. It keep indicating I need 4.3, and I have 4.31. Reached out to customer service for help, and they replied I need to be paid member before they can help me. Kind of hard to do that when I cannot even activate the plugin. This is a sign of poor customer service … one that will give you the run around rather than fix new issues when they pop up. Thank you for saving me money and aggravation.
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I keep Pressbooks and Pressbooks Textbook up to date and have found these plugins to function as designed.
I would like to see the custom MCE buttons (i.e., LO,KT,EX) migrated to Pressbooks core as they would be useful for all PB themes.{UPDATE – THIS HAS NOW BEEN DONE}
This is a package of plugins in one, that is a time saver and critical to producing academic ebooks from Pressbooks in WordPress.
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NOTE ON ONE STAR REVIEW –
“does not activate” By kokeb, September 17, 2015 for WP 4.3.1 –
That message thread should be flagged for removal as it is non-constructive, and contains very weak to no relevance with respect to “Pressbooks Textbook” plugin; otherwise the WP star rating system for reviews becomes less reliable etc…
Rating: 5 stars
As an open-access academic author, I prefer the Open TextBook plugin/theme over the others packaged with PressBooks for these reasons:
– on the home page, the table of contents appears closer to the top (where readers can see it), and the option to freely display exported files (PDF, EPUB, MOBI, etc.) is wonderful
– the page width supports images up to 800 pixels wide, which really helps readers to view more of your illustrations
– the editor bar contains extra tools for academic writers
Rating: 5 stars
PressBooks Textbook is designed to work with the plugin PressBooks and will not work if you do not first have PressBooks installed.
It is designed simply to extend PressBooks and can be activated/deactivated at the network level. Some of the features of the plugin, like textbook buttons and search feature, are available only after you activate the ‘Open Textbook’ theme that comes with it.
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