Contributing to Pressbooks

Translating Pressbooks Questions about translating Pressbooks into other languages (localization & internationalization). Start with our guide for translators. Developer Questions Questions about setting up a local development environment or contributing code to the Pressbooks open source project Third-party Plugins & Integrations Development questions related to third-party plugins and integrations Theme Development Questions about developing themes for Pressbooks. Start by reading “Frames and Pictures”, “What is Buckram”, and our guide to Theme Development.

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About the Contributing to Pressbooks category Contributing to Pressbooks This category for developers, translators, and others contributing to Pressbooks software. Pressbooks is free and open source software, and welcomes contributions in a variety of forms. Before creating a new topic, plea…	9	1492	October 3, 2025
Installing Pressbooks for local development Contributing to Pressbooks We’ve recently made several improvements to make it easier for first-time contributors to set up a local installation of Pressbooks using Lando/Docker. Please see the instructions in this repo: GitHub - pressbooks/local-…	1	23	September 30, 2025
Proposal: Flexible Numbering Options for Book Parts and Chapters Contributing to Pressbooks	1	48	January 13, 2026
Request to Add Our Self-Hosted Network’s Books to the Pressbooks Directory Contributing to Pressbooks	9	31	November 25, 2025
Changing From email Id of email alert Developer Questions	6	1305	August 29, 2018
.webp files not working in EPUB export Developer Questions	0	35	February 4, 2025
Theme Lifecycle Planning Theme Development	5	582	March 2, 2023
Cannot change figure caption label language Translating Pressbooks	7	1000	July 31, 2022
Word Count Display Options Developer Questions	2	1099	June 18, 2018
Auto-Numbering for Images and Headings Contributing to Pressbooks	5	1247	August 29, 2017
Generic way to insert <link> into <head>? Third-party Plugins & Integrations	4	1518	February 22, 2018
Dealing with new versions of the original book if one uses a cloned version Contributing to Pressbooks	9	1808	September 5, 2017
Drag table column border to resize table column width Developer Questions	4	2974	April 18, 2018
Internal links to ids with the same name (but in different pages) get conflated in PDF export Developer Questions	2	708	October 9, 2018
Institutions List - how to add to it? Developer Questions	16	669	July 16, 2025
Option for table of contents always visible Contributing to Pressbooks	1	484	March 30, 2024
Urdu in Language & Script Support Translating Pressbooks	2	345	October 11, 2023
Page numbering query for two-part book Developer Questions	5	245	April 27, 2024
The source url of the chapter should be stored on the cloned chapter Developer Questions	2	163	May 21, 2024
Translation of TOC title Translating Pressbooks	7	92	October 6, 2025
Distribution of author-modified export files Contributing to Pressbooks	4	67	September 9, 2024
The latest builds of Prince now have support for CSS variables Third-party Plugins & Integrations	1	693	January 21, 2020
CSS guide for pdf export Theme Development	17	3659	January 27, 2020
How to disable "buy" URL Contributing to Pressbooks	2	641	October 6, 2025
Additional buttons next to "read book" Developer Questions	1	558	November 24, 2021
Any Bootstrap compatible themes? Theme Development	1	546	April 5, 2022
Theme support for automatic numbering of tables/figures Theme Development	4	1365	August 14, 2024
Only get export meta data when needed Developer Questions	0	736	January 10, 2017
Custom Fields on Chapter CPT won't export Third-party Plugins & Integrations	5	1055	June 16, 2017
Index creation prince two-pass solution with example Third-party Plugins & Integrations	0	956	September 22, 2017