Description

Librarysol Book Catalogue Manager is a free WordPress plugin for creating a complete book catalogue on your site.

The free plugin is fully usable on its own. You can create and display books immediately after activation.

Free features

Unlimited books
Unlimited authors
Unlimited categories, genres and series
Book title, cover image, author, ISBN, publisher, year, pages, language, description, edition and format fields
Grid catalogue
List catalogue
Single book pages
Search
Basic filters
Sorting
Pagination
Responsive frontend layouts
Shortcodes
Gutenberg book gallery block
Bundled language packs and local translation import/export
Basic CSV import when enabled from the plugin tools
Translation-ready interface

All website-solution presets and functionality bundled in this plugin are available without a license, paid add-on, or usage quota. Features that integrate with WooCommerce require WooCommerce to be installed. Website owners can control content access and visibility through their own settings.

Privacy

The free plugin does not send telemetry or usage tracking data.

Language packs are included as local JSON data. Installing or refreshing a bundled pack makes no external request. Local translations and JSON import/export remain available.

If an optional integration is added through a separate add-on, that add-on is responsible for documenting what service it connects to and what data is sent.

External services

Typography uses system fonts and bundled assets. This plugin does not request Google Fonts.

Optional QR-code support: when a page containing a book QR image is viewed, the visitor’s browser requests the image from api.qrserver.com. The request sends the book permalink, image dimensions, IP address, and standard HTTP request information. It generates the displayed QR image and does not send accounts or passwords. API documentation, privacy policy, terms of service.

Language packs use bundled local files and do not connect to an external translation service.

Optional affiliate-link health checks contact only the retailer URLs configured by the site administrator. When enabled, scheduled or manually requested checks send the offer URL, the site’s server IP address, and a plugin user-agent to those retailers to test link availability. They do not transmit customer accounts or catalogue records. Each configured retailer is responsible for its own terms and privacy policy.

JSON URL import retrieves the JSON file explicitly selected by an authorized administrator. That request sends the file URL and standard HTTP request information to its host. No fixed third-party import service or account is required. The import tutorial opens YouTube only when its link is clicked; no video or tracking iframe is loaded by the plugin.

Source Code

The book gallery block source is included in blocks/book-gallery/src/index.js. To rebuild it, run npm install and npm run build inside blocks/book-gallery.

Select2 4.0.13 is bundled under the legacy selectize.js and selectize.css filenames. Its readable JavaScript, styles, and MIT license are available in the Select2 4.0.13 source. Slick 1.8.1 is distributed with its readable source in frontend/assets/js/slick.js.

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

Book Catalogue Gallery A Gutenberg block for displaying book posts in a customizable grid.

Installation

Upload the plugin files to /wp-content/plugins/librarysol-book-catalogue-manager/, or install the plugin through the WordPress Plugins screen.
Activate Librarysol Book Catalogue Manager.
Go to Librarysol Book Catalogue Manager in the WordPress admin menu.
Add books and place the catalogue shortcode or block on a page.

FAQ

Does the free plugin limit the number of books?: No. You can create and manage an unlimited number of books.
Can I use Librarysol Book Catalogue Manager without Pro?: Yes. The plugin is complete and does not require a license, account, or paid add-on to use its built-in catalogue features.

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Contributors & Developers

“Librarysol Book Catalogue Manager” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

2.6.155

Escape template and wrapper return values with the catalogue HTML allowlist, including series and friend-loan callbacks, while preserving forms, icons, and illustrations.
Initialize missing layout settings without resetting saved choices on reactivation; preserve legacy settings before migration.
Handle malformed legacy role settings during activation and restrict frontend/editor assets and sortable dependencies to catalogue contexts.

2.6.154

Verify JSON import and support action nonces directly from POST, independently of query-string, cookie, or combined request values.
Restrict support submissions and attachment uploads to POST and retain separate capability checks.
Bind webstore saves to the native or custom editor context selected by the caller, without inferring nonce actions from submitted fields.

2.6.153

Normalize upload fields directly with field-specific sanitizers; reject malformed upload metadata and unsafe temporary paths before reading files.
Escape the complete catalogue-sizing rule at the inline stylesheet boundary without changing theme header or footer sizing.

2.6.152

Verify the JSON import form explicitly and reject unauthorized, malformed, or non-JSON attachment requests before importing.
Restore the JSON import handler’s connection to the bundled import function.
Verify each support-upload and book-editor nonce in its own request context.
Sanitize store-link payloads at input without changing encoded URL components or repeatedly unslashing stored values.
Validate uploaded-file metadata, canonical temporary paths, actual file sizes, and PHP upload provenance.
Preserve current and legacy affiliate links while restricting redirects and analytics labels to the book’s registered offers.
Apply AJAX language tokens only to their matching catalogue-filter action and sanitize inline sizing CSS at output.

2.6.151

Prepare complete catalogue-page and metadata-search queries with all values bound together.
Correct dynamic placeholder lists in dashboard counts, library filters, and migration queries.
Escape custom table identifiers directly where queries are prepared.
Use a safe dashboard redirect and preserve the main query when slider and widget loops finish.

2.6.150

Make every bundled website solution, preset, and manual Goodreads field available without add-on flags.
Bundle local language packs and correct the QR service terms and privacy links.
Strengthen action nonces, permission checks, request validation, upload handling, and frontend output escaping.
Escape slider data attributes individually and preserve accessible form controls during HTML sanitization.
Prefix plugin lifecycle and REST hooks, declare setting sanitizers explicitly, and avoid loading the core admin plugin API.
Preserve the existing theme header, footer, and catalogue layout behavior.

2.6.149

Extend the restored theme layout compatibility to series, publisher, author, illustrator, translator, category, and catalogue archive pages.

2.6.148

Restore the removed Newsy boxed-layout compatibility classes on single-book pages, including child themes.

2.6.147

Preserve the active theme’s header, footer, and outer wrapper dimensions on catalogue pages.
Scope catalogue sizing settings to plugin content instead of the document root.

2.6.146

Restore the original plugin entry filename with complete plugin metadata.
Correct internal entry-file references and refresh the submission packages.

2.6.72

Confirmed unlimited books in the free plugin.
Removed legacy commercial-account checks from free functionality.
Removed legacy marketplace automation from the free plugin.
Removed bundled updater/account-service code from the free plugin.
Moved optional commercial features to separate add-on architecture.
Improved WordPress.org compliance for settings, external-service disclosure and privacy.