Good but needs improvement

I wish I could add at least half a star!

I bought the pro version of this plugin and immediately got a fatal error. I submitted a ticket, and a day later have not heard back. Good thing my partner figured out the problem, which was not listed in their documentation of how to install and activate. Just for others who might be reading this review, you do have to remove the non-pro-version of BookPress first, before activating the pro version. Otherwise, it won’t work.

Now on to the plugin. This needs just a bit of overhaul before I would consider the plugin worth it. One is that formatting like block quotes and bullets really messes up text in the actual online book. Words completely drop out, for instance. Another issue is that words drop out of text. For example, I reference the magazine “Southern Living” in my novel. And the “Southern” part dropped out, even though it’s there when I input the sample chapter. I cannot find any reason why it dropped. The magazine is italicized, but all of it is, both “Southern” and “Living”–just a strange bug. Finally, I prefer justified text when reading and publishing. Right now that’s not an option in the plugin’s formatting box. And, of course, some options there, like bullets or block quotes, just don’t work at all without removing words randomly. These things seem so basic for this type of plugin–ensure that formatting works and that the words input are not dropping out!

Some things that would make this plugin really worth it, to me, would be some things I think that the developer is polling on, like, there should be a way to make it so that you can put an entire book behind a paywall. It’s good to see that they are thinking of these things.