A free WordPress plugin from BuiltNotBegged.com. Give books, authors and verified retailer links their own editable bookshelf.
Download the free Bookshelf ZIP
Release 2026.10.10.002 · GPL-2.0-or-later · Developer: MatthewxMurphy.com
SHA256: bf346a2ca0cf1ce32c81035dd92c31e99342dd3282001d6f932a59a45f89b5f7
A shelf that fits your site
- Create native book pages with cover art, descriptions, actual author credits and collections.
- Add separate Amazon Kindle, paperback and hardcover ASINs, Amazon author profiles, Kobo and Spotify links. Use existing affiliate links when you have them.
- Choose a site-inherited, light, dark, Taylor purple or custom palette, with author shelves or a flat grid.
- Put your site’s primary author first. Matthew and Taylor follow in order before other authors.
- Use the WordPress shortcode in a page, an Elementor shortcode widget or a WPBakery shortcode element.
Examples are your choice
Setup offers Matthew’s 145 Hustles for Stay at Home Moms and Taylor Quinn’s The French Maid and The New PR Hire, with their current author-owned cover artwork. Taylor’s titles are steamy adult contemporary romance. You can leave them unchecked and hide Taylor’s author shelf. Your existing book records remain editable.
Activation and upgrades do not publish sample books automatically. The setup button adds only missing selected records and keeps an editor’s existing cover art and book details.
Connected releases and practical limits
Optional daily checks can add new releases from connected author-owned WordPress catalogs. Scheduled WordPress tasks must run on your host, and the source catalog must allow reuse of the metadata and artwork it shares. Existing book records and manually selected covers are kept.
Manual ASIN links work without Amazon API credentials. Automatic Amazon metadata previews require your own approved Amazon API access and eligible account. Credentials, commercial page builders, prices, reviews and book manuscripts are not included. Kobo and Spotify buttons require real supplied listings.
Install it in WordPress
- Download the ZIP, then open Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin in WordPress.
- Activate Built Not Begged Bookshelf and open its Bookshelf Settings.
- Set your primary author, choose the appearance and decide whether to add the included examples.
- Place
[mxm_bookshelf]in a native WordPress page or supported builder shortcode area.
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