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Novelist

Name: Novelist
Rating: 5.0 (9 reviews)
Author: Ashley

Easily organize and display your portfolio of books.

Novelist ranks #6,634 among WordPress.org plugins with 1,000+ active installations, is #155 of 1,143 in the Editor & Writing category, a 5/5 rating from 9 reviews, and was last updated Aug 29, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

vtrunk Current Version vtrunk

Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 29 Aug, 2026

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#155 of 1,143 in Editor & Writing Top 10% by installs Downloads -27.1% this week Actively maintained

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

3 known vulnerabilities on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 1 month ago

Mar 27, 2025

Novelist [novelist] < 1.2.4

CVE-2025-30847 · Fixed in v1.2.4
Apr 11, 2024

Novelist [novelist] < 1.2.3

CVE-2024-32093 · Fixed in v1.2.3
May 22, 2023

Novelist [novelist] < 1.2.1

CVE-2023-32958 · Fixed in v1.2.1

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Plugin Details

Version: trunk
Last Updated: Aug 29, 2026
Requires WP: 5.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 8.0 or higher
Author: Ashley

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Reviews: 9
Support Threads: 0
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Novelist is for authors who want to organize and display their books online. It solves the problem of manually tracking and formatting book details by providing a dedicated books area with structured fields and customizable display templates.

Dedicated Books storage area
Form for book information
Automatic formatting of book info
Customizable templates
Book archive creation
Developer-friendly design
Goodreads and purchase links
Series name and number tracking

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Novelist

To change the text and order of book information, read this article on customizing the book layout.

The retail sites are configured in Books > Settings in the "Purchase Links" area. More instructions: Setting Up Retail Sites

https://novelistplugin.com/docs/general/faqs/book-order/

This can be done using the [novelist-books] shortcode. For full instructions, read the [novelist-books] shortcode documentation

https://novelistplugin.com/docs/general/faqs/goodreads-image/

https://novelistplugin.com/docs/general/faqs/images-purchase-links/

Tutorial: https://novelistplugin.com/docs/developers/tutorials/book-info-field/

Create a new folder in your theme folder called novelist_templates. Inside that folder, create a new file called book-content.php. This file is responsible for displaying all the book information. You can now create more complex layouts with book information. You'll need to use the Novelist_Book class to assist you in displaying each piece of book info. For example: $book = new Novelist_Book( get_the_ID() ); if ( $book->title ) { echo '<h1>' . esc_html( $book->title ) . '</h1>'; } if ( $book->synopsis ) { echo '<blockquote class="novelist-synopsis">' . wpautop( $book->synopsis ) . '</blockquote>'; }

The Novelist plugin creates two custom taxonomies: novelist-genre for genres novelist-series for series By default, when showing book information, each taxonomy term (genre name or series name) will link to an automatically generated archive page. To disable these links, add this code snippet to a custom plugin: add_filter('novelist/taxonomy/series-args', 'agNovelistDisableArchives'); add_filter('novelist/taxonomy/genre-args', 'agNovelistDisableArchives'); function agNovelistDisableArchives($args) { $args['public'] = false; return $args; }