The Osom Author Pro plugin creates a library which allows you to add books to any WordPress theme.
As of April 2026, Osom Author Pro is a WordPress books plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 57K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Downloads are down 7% this week. Top alternative: Novelist.
The Osom Author Pro plugin creates a library which allows you to add books to any WordPress theme.
In WordPress themes using the Block Editor, you’ll be able to display the book details (Price, ISBN, author…) using native blocks and a dedicated block pattern. Additionally, in Genesis child themes it also provides layouts for a single and archive views.
The Osom Author Pro adds a new category called “Author Pro” containing a native block for each custom book information:
More over, the plugin adds a dedicated block pattern including all these new native blocks.
In addition to the custom book data, there are three taxonomies crea…
This is a hard-working plugin with lots of features for authors, publishers and book lists / directories.
Thanks for your dedication to keeping it up to date
The plugin serves a good purpose and it’s a helpful resource with various applications. For my purpose, I use Author Pro to provide book reviews to my audience. Not only has this resource been given new life and is well maintained, the support is amazing – pretty much like no other support I’ve received elsewhere. I appreciate the plugin, and I appreciate the support team even more.
Hello,
I really love this plugin. And I hope it’s gonna be adapted to Gutenberg as well. This is so valuable.
Thank you very much for offering this plugin.
Daniel
Really great theme, does everything I want it to do and works great on mobile – fully responsive. Hasn’t been updated in over a year which is a little worrying, but so far so good on wordpress 4.9.2 as I type. I just hope the developers haven’t forgotten about it!
Really nice plugin for Genesis themes. And right on time (last year) for restyling a website for a writer of children’s books. She loved it.
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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