Getting started

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Installing the plugin

This part of the documentation is going to cover, in a step by step instruction, the installation of the plugin.

Step 1. Log into your WordPress Admin area.

Step 2. Click 'Plugins' button in the admin menu.

Step 3. Click 'Add new Plugin' and then 'Upload plugin'.

Step 4. Select the plugin zip from your PC, this is the real3dflipbook.zip inside the zip you had previously downloaded from CodeCanyon. Install the zip and click on 'Activate Plugin'.

Should you ever experience slight upload problems then please stay calm, simply use an FTP program to access your blog, then browse to /public_html/wp-content/plugins and upload the unzipped plugin here. Then open the Plugins page and activate the plugin.

Updating the plugin

You can update the plugin to latest version by redownloading the plugin from Codecanyon to get the latest version, then uninstall the old version and install the latest version.

Step 1. Download the latest version of the plugin from Codecanyon. Go to https://codecanyon.net/downloads, find Real3D Flipbook and download the installable WordPress file real3d-flipbook.zip

Step 2. Install the latest version by clicking Plugins > Add New Plugin, then click Upload Plugin, choose file and upload real3d-flipbook.zip

Step 3. Click Replace current with uploaded.

License Activation

Activating the license

The plugin requires license activation. To activate the plugin, follow the steps:

1. Go to Real3D Flipbook > License

2. Enter your purchase code for Real3D Flipbook WordPress plugin

3. Click Activate

After the activation, the purchase code is linked to domain where you activated it, so it cannot be used on another domain before deactivating the purchase code from the current domain.

If you have any addon for Real3D Flipbook installed and activated, that was bought on Codecanyon, you also need to activate each addon by entering the the purchase code of each addon.

If you have purchased the bundle Addons for Real3D Flipbook on Codecanyon, then you only enter the purchase code for the Addons bundle.

Deactivating the license through WordPress

To deactivate the license form the domain where it is activated:

1. Go to WordPress dashboard on the website where the plugin is activated

2. Go to Real3D Flipbook > License

3. Click Deactivate

Deactivating the license through portal

Alternatively, you can unlink the license through the portal

1. Open the Portal

2. Login using Envato OAuth

3. Find the purchase code on the list

4. Click Deactivate

Important Notice

Real3D FlipBook WordPress Plugin is exclusively available on CodeCanyon. To access all features, updates, and support, please use the official version. Plugins from unauthorized sources pose security risks, may not function properly, and could fail to update due to strict license checks.

Creating Flipbook

Once you have Flipbook plugin activated you can start creating flipbooks.

Step 1. Create a Flipbook Post

Click on the ‘Real3D Flipbook’ > ‘Add new’

Step 2. Add images or PDF as source

Click on the Select PDF or images button

Select PDF form media library

or select images (multiple images can be selected at once)

and click Send to Flipbook.

Step 3. Publish Flipbook Post

Click on the Publish button to publish the flipbook post.

After the post has been published you can preview the flipbook, view the flipbook post (Permalink) or copy the Shortcode to embed the flipbook in a post or page.

PDF from another domain

For using PDF from another domain you need to enable CORS.

For Apache server, add following lines to .htaccess

Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" 
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Range" 
Header set Access-Control-Expose-Headers: "Accept-Ranges, Content-Encoding, Content-Length, Content-Range"

More info https://enable-cors.org/server.html

For Amazon S3 add following JSON configuration for the bucket

[
    {
        "AllowedHeaders": [],
        "AllowedMethods": [
            "GET"
        ],
        "AllowedOrigins": [
            "*"
        ],
        "ExposeHeaders": []
    }
]

More info here https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-configure-cors/

Fast PDF loading

PDF flipbook supports partial PDF download (it can display pages before entire PDF is downloaded). For that feature to work server needs to support range requests.

Optimized PDF Flipbook with PDF Tools addon (for Real3D Flipbook PRO)

With PDF Tools addon, (requires Real3D Flipbook Pro), you can create fastest loading PDF flipbook by converting PDF to images and JSON on the server. This flipbook will load pages faster because it will not load JS files required to process the PDF and it will load images and JSON from the server instead of loading and processing the PDF at runtime.

Flipbook created with PDF tools will still have PDF links, search and text selection working.

After you have created flipbook from PDF with PDF Tools, you can delete PDF from the server, which is the only real protection for your original PDF file.

Get PDF Tools for Real3D Flipbook Addon