Contributing to Pressbooks
Developer Questions Questions about setting up a local development environment or contributing code to the Pressbooks open source project Translating Pressbooks Questions about translating Pressbooks into other languages (localization & internationalization). Start with our guide for translators. 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
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… |
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9 | 1479 | October 3, 2025 |
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Contribute to Pressbooks as part of Hacktoberfest 2025
Hacktoberfest is an annual celebration of all things open source. Pressbooks is participating in this year’s event and would love to welcome new contributors to our project. To learn more about how to participate in Hack… |
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1 | 8 | October 2, 2025 |
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Installing Pressbooks for local development
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-… |
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1 | 9 | September 30, 2025 |
| Changing From email Id of email alert |
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6 | 1278 | August 29, 2018 |
| .webp files not working in EPUB export |
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0 | 31 | February 4, 2025 |
| Theme Lifecycle Planning |
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5 | 577 | March 2, 2023 |
| Cannot change figure caption label language |
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7 | 971 | July 31, 2022 |
| Word Count Display Options |
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2 | 1095 | June 18, 2018 |
| Auto-Numbering for Images and Headings |
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5 | 1240 | August 29, 2017 |
| Generic way to insert <link> into <head>? |
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4 | 1502 | February 22, 2018 |
| Dealing with new versions of the original book if one uses a cloned version |
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9 | 1793 | September 5, 2017 |
| Drag table column border to resize table column width |
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4 | 2961 | April 18, 2018 |
| Internal links to ids with the same name (but in different pages) get conflated in PDF export |
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2 | 706 | October 9, 2018 |
| Institutions List - how to add to it? |
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16 | 600 | July 16, 2025 |
| Option for table of contents always visible |
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1 | 483 | March 30, 2024 |
| Urdu in Language & Script Support |
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2 | 342 | October 11, 2023 |
| Page numbering query for two-part book |
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5 | 206 | April 27, 2024 |
| The source url of the chapter should be stored on the cloned chapter |
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2 | 161 | May 21, 2024 |
| Translation of TOC title |
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7 | 49 | October 6, 2025 |
| Distribution of author-modified export files |
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4 | 47 | September 9, 2024 |
| The latest builds of Prince now have support for CSS variables |
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1 | 687 | January 21, 2020 |
| CSS guide for pdf export |
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17 | 3589 | January 27, 2020 |
| How to disable "buy" URL |
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2 | 636 | October 6, 2025 |
| Additional buttons next to "read book" |
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1 | 556 | November 24, 2021 |
| Any Bootstrap compatible themes? |
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1 | 530 | April 5, 2022 |
| Theme support for automatic numbering of tables/figures |
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4 | 1361 | August 14, 2024 |
| Only get export meta data when needed |
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0 | 735 | January 10, 2017 |
| Custom Fields on Chapter CPT won't export |
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5 | 1045 | June 16, 2017 |
| Index creation prince two-pass solution with example |
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0 | 945 | September 22, 2017 |
| Info: pandoc used to convert exported XHTML to DOCX leads to very good results |
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1 | 2861 | June 5, 2018 |