
Flipa – PDF Flipbook for WordPress
Flipa turns any PDF into a beautiful, realistic page-flip book that renders entirely in the visitor’s browser – your file is served from your own site and never sent to a third-party service. Drag a corner to turn the page, jump with thumbnails, zoom, and embed it anywhere with a shortcode, block, or page-builder widget.
Why Flipa
- Best-in-class right-to-left support – proper Hebrew, Arabic & Persian reading order, mirrored controls and correct cover/back behaviour.
- 20-language reader interface – English, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Czech, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi.
- Find anything instantly – full-text search across the whole PDF with on-page highlighting (Pro).
- Lightweight & fast – no heavy 3D dependency; smooth on phones and tablets.
- Self-hosted & private – the PDF stays on your server; nothing phones home.
Features
Features – Free
- Realistic drag-to-turn page flip with a natural fold shadow
- Single-page and double-page (magazine) spreads, with a centred cover & back
- Thumbnails, seek bar, zoom and fullscreen
- Custom background colour
- Inline (seamless, auto-height) embedding, a fixed iframe, or a lightbox popup
- Unlimited flipbooks – manage them all from one dashboard
Features – Pro
- In-book text search – find any word across the whole PDF, jump to a matching page, and highlight every match
- Foldable two-level table of contents (chapters & sub-chapters), light or dark
- Clickable PDF links – internal page-jumps plus web & email links
- Download the original PDF, a Print button, and Autoplay (auto-advance with loop and autostart)
- Page-flip sounds and password protection
- Vertical-scroll reading mode and a mouse-follow 3D tilt mode
- Custom background image, page-stack depth graphic, and a QR code in the Share popup
Works where you build
- Shortcode anywhere: [flipa id=”123″]
- Gutenberg block & Classic editor button
- Elementor / Elementor Pro & WPBakery widgets (Pro)
- WooCommerce product pages (Pro)
- Bookshelf grid via [flipa_shelf] (Pro)
Requirements
- WordPress 5.8+
- PHP 7.4+
- A PDF in your Media Library
Live demo & support
Live demo: flipa.pro/documentation · Support: flipa.pro/support
Changelog:
= 0.16.2 =
- Fixed a 0.16.1 regression: with the default Dark reader theme on a light background colour, the toolbar icons were drawn white-on-white and disappeared. The toolbar now always auto-contrasts against a solid background, whichever theme is chosen. Side panels and popups still follow the chosen theme.
= 0.16.1 =
* Editor live preview overhaul: settings changes now update the running preview instantly. The PDF is only re-rendered when you change the PDF itself or media hotspots. Chapters, bookmarks, display toggles, theme, colours, reading direction, page view, language, vertical scroll and 3D tilt all apply live.
* Vertical scroll smoothness: page rendering no longer competes with your scrolling, sharp re-renders wait until scrolling pauses, and pages streaming in can no longer nudge the layout.
* Reader theme (Dark/Light) now themes the whole reader: toolbar, menus and popups. Your chosen background colour is always respected; the two settings are independent.
* Fixed: the "Powered by flipa" credit could not be hidden once shown. It now follows the setting exactly and sits at the reading-start corner (left in LTR, right in RTL), opposite the page-load counter.
* Fixed: side arrows showed even when disabled; they are now off by default.
* Fixed: "Hide the first / last (jump) arrows" had no effect in the live preview.
* Fixed: the single-page view showed a baked-in edge shadow at rest.
* Fixed: the zoom and More popups were misplaced in right-to-left books.
* Fixed: the zoom controls were invisible in the Light theme popup.
* The "More" toolbar button now hides itself when it has nothing to show.
* Jump to page off now shows the page number as plain text instead of a disabled input.
* Bundled a full Hebrew translation of the editor.
= 0.16.0=
- Download PDF, Print, and Autoplay are now Pro features.
- Refreshed the plugin logo in the editor.
- Display settings labels are now translatable.
- Corrected the Free vs Pro help text (in-book search, bookmarks, vertical scroll and 3D tilt are Pro).
- The editor live preview now updates immediately when you change the background colour.
= 0.15.1=
- The plugin icon now shows correctly on the connect, account and plugins screens (it was falling back to a generic placeholder on some installs).
- Tidied the zoom menu: removed the redundant Fit page option, leaving Automatic Zoom and Actual size.
= 0.15.0 =
* Much sharper reader: pages now render at full device resolution, so text and images stay crisp on high-resolution and Retina screens, both at rest and while flipping.
* Big books: long PDFs (hundreds of pages) now open reliably without the reader running out of memory.
* Sharper zoom: zooming in re-renders the page from the PDF at high resolution, so zoomed-in text stays clear.
* Crisper scroll view: pages sharpen as they scroll into view.
* Fixed clickable PDF links that could turn the page instead of opening the link in single-page view.
* New setting: hide the first / last (jump) side arrows, keeping only the previous / next arrows.
=0.14.1 =
"The reader now adapts to the page background: on a light background the corner logo, side arrows and actions menus switch to a matching light style (they stay dark on dark backgrounds)."
=0.14.0 =
"New reader design: a cleaner dark toolbar, a labelled actions menu (icons with text), and minimalist side arrows (previous/next plus jump to start and end) with the book neatly inset.
New zoom menu: Fit plus a live percentage with zoom out and in.
A small flipa mark now sits in the reader corner (Pro users can hide it).
3D tilt now leans only the book, not the surrounding controls.
Shared and embedded flipbooks now carry the full actions menu (search, autoplay, print, 3D tilt, page depth and QR).
The new reader labels are translated across all 20 languages."
=0.13.1 =
"Maintenance release — PHP compatibility and dependency updates. No feature changes."
= 0.13.0 =
* New: In-book text search (Pro). A search box in the reader finds any word across the whole PDF, lists the matching pages with a snippet, jumps straight to a result, and highlights every match on the page. Works in page-flip and vertical-scroll reading modes.
* Fix: single-page (single-spread) view no longer over-sizes the page in embedded flipbooks; a lone page now matches one page of the two-page spread.
= 0.12.1 =
* Security: stricter validation of the flipbook width/height values to prevent CSS injection via shortcode attributes.
* Change: the "Powered by flipa" viewer credit is now off by default and shown only when you opt in (Background tab).
* Improvement: unified text domain for more reliable translation loading.
* Branding: refreshed plugin icon and logo.
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