Title: Blocks for BookWyrm
Author: lastsplash (a11n)
Published: <strong>December 19, 2025</strong>
Last modified: July 5, 2026

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# Blocks for BookWyrm

 By [lastsplash (a11n)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lastsplash/)

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## Description

This plugin adds two blocks to pull data from BookWyrm and to display it on your
WordPress site:

 * Recently Read books
 * Currently Reading books

### External Services

This plugin makes API calls to the user-configued [BookWyrm](https://joinbookwyrm.com/)
instance. It sends the user-configured username to:

 * Retrieve a list of recently read or currently reading books (including author
   name, book title, and book ISBN).

It relies on public endpoints and only displays already public information.

Each BookWyrm instance configures its own privacy policy based on [the BookWyrm software’s privacy controls](https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/privacy-controls.html).
This is [the Privacy Policy for the BookWyrm.social instance](https://bookwyrm.social/privacy).

To display book covers, the plugin calls [the OpenLibrary.org API](https://openlibrary.org/developers/api).
The only data sent to OpenLibrary is an ISBN. No user information is sent. As a 
project of Archive.org, OpenLibrary.org’s API is governed by the Archive.org [Terms of Service and Privacy Policy](https://archive.org/about/terms).

## Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

 *   BookWyrm – Currently Reading Lists currently reading books from a BookWyrm 
   instance.
 *   BookWyrm – Recently Read Lists recently read books from a BookWyrm instance.

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/blocks-for-bookwyrm` directory,
    or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress

## FAQ

### Does this work with any instance?

It should although it was only tested against BookWyrm.social

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Blocks for BookWyrm” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ lastsplash (a11n) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lastsplash/)

[Translate “Blocks for BookWyrm” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/blocks-for-bookwyrm)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blocks-for-bookwyrm/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/blocks-for-bookwyrm/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/blocks-for-bookwyrm/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/blocks-for-bookwyrm/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.6 – 07/04/26

 * New: Indicate WordPress v7.0 compatibility

#### 1.0.5 – 12/20/25

 * Add default placeholders when no cover image found
 * Add blueprint for WordPress.org
 * Update plugin icon

#### 1.0.4 – 12/18/25

 * Deploy to WordPress.org

#### 1.0.2 – 12/11/25

 * Code adjustments for WordPress.org

#### 1.0.1 – 12/07/25

 * Fix linting issues
 * Switch to PHP-based API calls
 * Adjust code to account for books with ISBN-10 instead of ISBN-13

= 1.0.0
 – Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.6**
 *  Last updated **3 days ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0**
 *  PHP version ** 8.2 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/blocks-for-bookwyrm/)
 * Tags
 * [blocks](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blocks/)[books](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/books/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/blocks-for-bookwyrm/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ lastsplash (a11n) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lastsplash/)

## Support

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