FICTBASE is a plugin for WordPress designed to facilitate the creation and management of serialized fiction directly within a WordPress site. It enables users to add stories, organize chapters, and present content in a structured format tailored for fiction publishing. The tool targets writers and publishers who want to deliver serialized stories, offering features that streamline story creation and reader navigation.
After installation, FICTBASE integrates into the WordPress admin sidebar, providing options to create new stories with titles, descriptions, cover images, genres, and status indicators such as Draft, Ongoing, Completed, or Hiatus. Each story becomes accessible through a dedicated URL, and readers can discover stories via a shortcode-generated grid. Chapters are managed within each story, with titles and content entered through the TinyMCE editor. The tool automatically calculates word count and estimated read time for each chapter, and chapters are numbered sequentially. A drag-and-drop reordering feature is mentioned as a future update.
docx files exported from Microsoft Word or Google Docs. The import process detects chapters using heading styles or common chapter markers, and all chapter titles and body text are brought in, though images must be added manually after import. Pro also unlocks a dedicated CSS editor, allowing users to style the reading experience on FICTBASE pages without modifying theme files or using additional plugins. Customizations can be applied globally or to specific page types, such as story listings, story landing pages, or chapter readers.
The plugin provides clean, automatically generated URLs for stories and chapters, and includes several shortcodes for embedding story lists, individual stories, or chapter lists into any WordPress page or post. Reading experience settings can be customized for font size, reading width, and theme (light, dark, or system preference). 4 or higher. The Pro version is installed as a separate plugin on top of the free core plugin.
FICTBASE sits in PulseGate's Newsletters & publishing category. It focuses on allowing writers to publish and control serialized fiction on their own WordPress site without platform lock-in. FICTBASE is a consumer product aimed at writers and web novel publishers. FICTBASE costs nothing to use. It runs on the web and API, and it can be self-hosted.
It is developed by fictbase09, and the product first shipped in 2026. Among its 7 catalogued features are serialized fiction publishing, chapter management, and drip scheduling. The interface is available in English and Serbian. It exposes integrations via a public API.
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