Which Blog Hosts Work With PixxiBook
Usually the best way to see if your blog can be printed as a book by PixxiBook is to just try it and see. However, if it’s not working for you and you want to know if it’s a problem with your blog, the address, or our problem then the following tables will help.
Fully Supported:
These are the blog hosts that we expect to support fully. Together they cover about 90% of the blogs out there. If by chance it doesn’t work for your blog that is hosted on one of these systems, then let us know and we will fix it. Occasionally, there can be some theme, plugin, or version incompatibility.
| Blog Host | Support | Example Blog URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wordpress.com | full | myblog.wordpress.com | see Wordpress book guide |
| Wordpress self hosted | full | myblog.com | see Wordpress book guide |
| Blogger | full | myblog.blogspot.com | see Blogger book guide |
| full | instagram.com/myname | see Instagram book guide | |
| Tumblr | full | myblog.tumblr.com | see Tumblr book guide |
| broken | myname.wixsite.com/myblog | ||
| Squarespace | full | myname.squarespace.com/myblog-1 | see Squarespace book guide |
| Travelark | full | v2.travelark.com/travel-blog/myname/1 | NEW! |
Mostly working:
These are usable and we have made books from these blog hosts but there may be some limitations as noted below. If you are having problems making a book from your blog on one of these hosts, please get in touch - we are always looking to improve them.
| Blog Host | Support | Example Blog URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polarsteps | full | polarsteps.com/myname/1234 | in beta, try it and let us know |
| Ghost | full | myblog.ghost.com | requires full rss feed |
| Substack | full | myname.substack.com/myblog | in beta, try it and let us know |
| TravelBlog | partial | travelblog.org/Bloggers/myname | misses some photos on large galleries |
Not working:
These used to work but due to changes by the blog host we are no longer able to reliably fetch the blog content.
| Blog Host | Support | Problem | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TypePad | broken | Access blocked, appears to be shutting down. | Unlikely to ever be supported. |
| Wix | fixing | Change in content delivery mechanism. | We are working on fixing this. |
Other hosts:
Even if your blog host is not supported by us, it may work so we recommend just trying it:
- Enter your blog’s address on PixxiBook
If your blog has a RSS or Atom feed, then we may be able to process it.
- Enter your blog’s RSS or Atom feed address on PixxiBook
If your blog does not have an RSS or Atom feed, you can create one from your blog’s index page.
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Go to PolitePol.com and enter the address of your blog’s index page that has as many of your blog’s posts as possible,
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Click the Title button and then select the title element of the first post. Hopefully it will pick up the rest of the posts too. No need to bother with the Image or Description parts,
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Click Create and then Copy the feed address
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Go back to PixxiBook and use the feed address you have just copied. Cross your fingers and toes.
If your Feed is incomplete or doesn’t work, here are some workarounds to try:
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Easy: Export your blog content and then import it into a supported blog host such as Blogger or Wordpress.
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Hard: If your RSS only contains the most recent N posts, try creating the book. Then in your blog, hide or unpublish the most recent N posts. Refresh the book preview from your MyBooks page and it will pick up the next N posts. And so on! Tiresome, but do-able if your total number of posts is just a few N.
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Also Hard: copy and paste your content into a supported blog, such as Blogger. Tiresome, but do-able if your total number of posts is just a few N.