Make Your Book
Create and Edit Chapters
Just as your book can contain several pieces of front matter or back matter, and several parts, so too can your book include several chapters. In Pressbooks, a chapter is the primary unit of content in the main body of your book, and each Pressbooks in chapter must belong to a part.
When your book is first created, it will automatically include a part called ‘Main Body’ and that part will include a single chapter called ‘Chapter 1’. You can create as many new chapters as you like, move chapters between parts or reorder them within a given part, and edit or delete chapters.
Add a Chapter
- Click ‘Organize -> Add Chapter‘ from the left sidebar menu of your book’s dashboard (or click the ‘Add Chapter’ button on the Organize page itself)
- Enter a title on the Add Chapter page.
- Add your desired content.
- Select the Part your chapter should belong to
- Select the relevant Chapter Type for your chapter type
- Click the “Create” button
Delete a Chapter
If you’ve created a chapter that you no longer wish to include in your book, you can delete it. To do so:
- Click ‘Organize‘ in your book’s left-hand admin menu.
- Hover over the name of the Front Matter you’d like to delete and click ‘Trash‘
Edit a Chapter:
- Go to Organize from the left sidebar menu of your book’s dashboard
- Click the name of the chapter you’d like to edit
- Make revisions to the content, the title, or the chapter settings
- Click “Save”
Chapter Types
Each chapter in Pressbooks is automatically numbered unless you’ve disabled “Part and Chapter Numbers” in your book’s Global Theme Options. However, you can decide which chapters in your book aren’t numbered by manually changing its “Chapter Type.” There are three chapter types to choose from:
- Standard: A standard chapter will have a chapter title which may include design elements depending on the theme, and includes the chapter number
- Numberless: A numberless chapter will not include the chapter’s number on the title page, and may not contain other elements included in the standard chapter title page design
- No chapter type: (default) This chapter type typically resembles the “Standard” chapter type
To remove automatic numbering from a chapter:
- Open up your chapter editor
- Select ‘Numberless‘ from the ‘Chapter Type’ dropdown menu
- Save your changes
Afterward, the automatic numbering of chapters in your book will skip all numberless chapters, as seen in the example below:
1. A Great Chapter
A Numberless Chapter
2. Another Great Chapter
Another Numberless Chapter
3. A Wonderful Chapter
Status & Visibility Settings
In the Status & Visibility menu to the right of the content editor, you will find options to modify the following settings:
- Show in Web: Choose whether or not the chapter displays in your public webbook
- Require a Password: Choose whether or not a chapter that is set to display in your public webbook is password-protected. Common uses for password protected content include si