Can anyone suggest the Theme component or recommend the best way to publish a book with Chapters? What we want to achieve is; publish a Book that has chapter 1, 2, 3 xxx. When a user reads chapter 1, they can then proceed to chapter x, or they can even skip chapter 1 and jump to Chapter 2 or chapt…

Book is a category and chapters are topics. No commenting, because then the order stays. If there is need to discuss here is a undocumented plugin named Footnote — but it lacks support for mobiles and looks bad in tablets.

The new Discourse Doc Categories plugin may be useful to create an index for your chapters, though I think it would only work for all topics in one category and you may need to get imaginative if you wanted to have certain chapters accessible to certain groups (as they’d need to be in a separate cat…

If your self hosted. I believe this plugin is what your looking for. [image] Discourse Chain Topics Plugin plugin I have just released a discourse plugin for chaining topics When I was going over Beginner's Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins Part 1: Creating a basic pl…

Thanks. I will implement it tomorrow to do a test run. Will update soon as done.

@oga I look forward to hearing your experience with the Discourse Chain Topics Plugin – I could not get it to work!

Ok, so I installed it, but there is no way to configure it. The Settings is greyed out in my instance. Looking through the build log, I saw this: Plugin name is ‘discourse_chain_topics’, but plugin directory is named ‘discourse-chain-topics’ So, it does not work, I mean, it did not work for too. …

That isn’t an error. It just tells that.

What is the best way to Publish a book with chapters?

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) September 3, 2024, 4:33pm 4

If your self hosted. I believe this plugin is what your looking for.

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