Description of terms

• Page
• post
• a Chapter in digitally published wook (web book)
• text
• URL

Rules for making the publication engine

• 1 chapter of text corresponds to a WordPress “Post”
• The published Post can be fitted on page (optional), or let scroll vertically (a bigger challenge involving external factors such as different devices and reading software)
• all Posts receive a automatically generated, unique URL from WordPress, at the time of publishing
• the URL stays same throughout the lifetime of the publication
• Page means same as a unique URL; a page is physically a view to the book, plot-wise this corresponds to a certain act of story-telling in the book

Functional Requirements of WP Book

• linking of pages is always intact, regardless of any state of page(s) Visibility attribute
• linking of pages is always intact, even though there would (not yet) exist a ‘successor page’ (the next page)
• whenever a next page appears, the successor link is put in place on the predecessing page
• supports publishing a book, one chapter at a time, with any number of days in between publications
• intermix of other content (WordPress publications) may happen between chapters

Suggested ideas for solving this

• a plugin, or some kind of importer
• importer needs to work with a exportable format that people are actually capable of doing from whatever their book editing software is..
• a plugin that modifies the WP backend’s core code in Publishing
• supports “tags” for different publication “buckets” — ie WordPress workflow types
• edit, rename, transparently the tags themselves – they are mere metadata