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Pressbooks

open (book) publishing infrastructure
README.md

Pressbooks is a small company based in Montréal, Canada. We make open source book publishing software and provide a SaaS offering to help individuals and institutions quickly and easily share their ideas. Our core product allows users to publish books to the public web and produce exports in multiple formats, including EPUB, PDF, and various XML flavours. The system is built on top of WordPress Multisite but makes significant changes to the admin interface, web presentation layer and export routines of a standard WordPress installation. For more documentation, see https://pressbooks.org/

Pressbooks is used by educational institutions, academic presses, small publishers, as well as individual authors. The Pressbooks Directory contains links to thousands of free books published using Pressbooks, most of which are openly licensed and educational in nature.

Support Pressbooks

While Pressbooks is free & open source, creating, improving, and maintaining this project takes time, effort, and money. As a result, we invite our open source users to help ensure the long-term sustainability of this project. Our favourite kinds of support are:

  • financial contributions
  • code contributions and testing
  • helping other open source users on our community forum.

If you are an institution using Pressbooks and would like to help sustain Pressbooks financially, please consider hiring us to host your institution's Pressbooks network.

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  1. pressbooks pressbooks Public

    Open publishing. Open web. Open source.

    PHP 445 136

  2. pressbooks-book pressbooks-book Public

    McLuhan is the default book theme for Pressbooks.

    SCSS 20 14

  3. pressbooks-aldine pressbooks-aldine Public

    Aldine is the default root theme for Pressbooks.

    PHP 11 6

  4. pressbooks-multi-institution pressbooks-multi-institution Public

    Tools for managing Pressbooks networks shared by multiple institutions

    PHP 1

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  • pressbooks-aldine Public

    Aldine is the default root theme for Pressbooks.

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    PHP 11 GPL-3.0 6 3 2 Updated Mar 14, 2026
  • fake-plugin Public
    pressbooks/fake-plugin’s past year of commit activity
    PHP 0 GPL-3.0 0 0 4 Updated Mar 14, 2026
  • pressbooks-multi-institution Public

    Tools for managing Pressbooks networks shared by multiple institutions

    pressbooks/pressbooks-multi-institution’s past year of commit activity
    PHP 0 GPL-3.0 1 10 6 Updated Mar 14, 2026
  • parsedown-party Public

    This plugin lets you use Markdown for individual WordPress posts on a case-by-case basis.

    pressbooks/parsedown-party’s past year of commit activity
    PHP 1 GPL-3.0 0 2 3 Updated Mar 14, 2026
  • pressbooks-network-catalog Public

    A Pressbooks plugin which provides an improved catalog for the Pressbooks Aldine theme

    pressbooks/pressbooks-network-catalog’s past year of commit activity
    PHP 2 1 7 4 Updated Mar 14, 2026
  • pressbooks Public

    Open publishing. Open web. Open source.

    pressbooks/pressbooks’s past year of commit activity
    PHP 445 GPL-3.0 136 79 12 Updated Mar 14, 2026
  • pressbooks-book Public

    McLuhan is the default book theme for Pressbooks.

    pressbooks/pressbooks-book’s past year of commit activity
    SCSS 20 GPL-3.0 14 9 9 Updated Mar 14, 2026
  • pressbooks-saml-sso Public

    SAML2 Single Sign-On integration for Pressbooks (Shibboleth, ADFS, Google Apps, Etc.)

    pressbooks/pressbooks-saml-sso’s past year of commit activity
    PHP 3 GPL-3.0 1 3 4 Updated Mar 14, 2026
  • pressbooks-book-directory-fe Public

    A Vue.js frontend for the Pressbooks Directory

    pressbooks/pressbooks-book-directory-fe’s past year of commit activity
    Vue 0 1 0 11 Updated Mar 13, 2026
  • pressbooks-cas-sso Public

    CAS SSO Integration for Pressbooks.

    pressbooks/pressbooks-cas-sso’s past year of commit activity
    PHP 2 GPL-3.0 1 1 5 Updated Mar 12, 2026
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