Good Reads Books
Showcase currently reading and recently read Goodreads books on your website.
4(4 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Good Reads Books is a WordPress goodread plugin with 100 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns.
4/54 reviews
100active installs
5.5K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
Showcase reading and read Goodreads shelves on your website.
- Fully Responsive
- Select how many books to show in a row
- Will display all currently reading
- Rest of space filled with recently read
- Updates shelves daily
- Colour, or, Black & White covers (for the true Kindle experience)
Usage
- After setting up, use
[goodreads]shortcode to display
Please Note
- 🍺 This is a new plugin, please open a support request before summiting a negative review, I’m happy to help, please provide as much information as possible (books that are causing an issue, theme currently used, your GoodReads profile URL, your GoodReads API key, WordPress and PHP version).
Road Map
The current todo list:
- Make the Select Media Item input with upload instead of text input for cover exemptions
- Better defaul…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2
- Dec 6, 2017
- added: user ID parser logic to better extract member/authors who have custom usernames (thanks Andy E!)
- added: a “Refresh” AJAX button in admin. Though saving page refreshes plugin, this button makes it easier.
- added: new error handler for api returning a 404 (odd, but it can happen!)
- changed: rewrote most inline field description instructions
…and 2 more changes
Contributors
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