Title: Plugin/Theme for epaper
Last modified: June 20, 2023

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# Plugin/Theme for epaper

 *  [Shwetha Harsha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shwetharmaiya/)
 * (@shwetharmaiya)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-theme-for-epaper/)
 * Hi Team ,
 * I have got a newspaper website based work which I have to do on self-hosted WordPress.
 * I want some #WordPress #help
   Epaper should be displayed on a newspaper website.
   Which plugin/widget/theme to use to achieve that. It should take a pdf and convert
   it to epaper print version. I want lightbox feature to zoom in and zoom out also.
   How do popular newspapers display epaper with the newspaper layout? I checked
   Times of India epaper. I want something like that. Any help appreciated.
 * Regards,
 * Shwetha
    -  This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by [Shwetha Harsha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shwetharmaiya/).
    -  This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by [Shwetha Harsha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shwetharmaiya/).

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 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-theme-for-epaper/#post-16835515)
 * First, what exactly do you mean by “epaper”?
 * If by “epaper”, you mean flipbook-style browsing, there are several “flipbook”
   plugins out there: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/flipbook/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/flipbook/)
 * From what I can make of it, it seems the _Times of India_ “epaper” you mentioned
   is just a glorified website. The entry point has a screenshot of the print paper,
   but, beyond that, it’s just a normal website, an SPA or single-page app.
 * Digital is inherently a _linear_ medium, and serving static PDFs of the print
   paper — even with the flipbook-style page flipping — generally makes a very terrible
   user experience. In most cases, you either see tiny text sizes you can’t read,
   or you zoom in and then have to scroll back and forth a million times to read
   a single story.
 * One interesting plugin I came across a while back is [IssueM](https://leakypaywall.com/issuem/).
   But this works in reverse of what you want: rather than making users arduously
   flip through the static PDF edition of the print paper, this plugin begins with
   the liner online versions of the stories (normal WordPress posts).
 * It puts a collection of posts into an “issue”. Each “Issue” gets a customizable
   cover image mimicking a newspaper/magazine front page, but individual stories
   in the issue can be browsed linearly (they’re WordPress posts after all). The
   plugin also creates a PDF version of each “issue” automatically, and this can
   be browsed in a flipbook fashion).
 *  Thread Starter [Shwetha Harsha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shwetharmaiya/)
 * (@shwetharmaiya)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-theme-for-epaper/#post-16835547)
 * Hi George ,
 * This answer cleared some doubts I had.
 * Especially -> The entry point has a screenshot of the print paper, but, beyond
   that, it’s just a normal website, an SPA or single-page app.
 * I will check with what you told. I will get back if I have more questions
 * Thank you for answering. Really appreciate it.
 * Regards,
 * Shwetha
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by [Shwetha Harsha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shwetharmaiya/).

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