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Can I migrate my Goodreads reviews to VeloCMS?

Yes — export your Goodreads library via My Books → Export Library → CSV. The CSV includes your shelved books, star ratings, date read, and review text. In VeloCMS Admin → Tools → Import, upload the CSV and each book with review text imports as a draft post. You then add structured metadata (genre tags, page count, reading format), publish, and they join your review archive. Goodreads reviews without body text import as stub drafts you can flesh out. The migration typically takes 2–3 hours for a library of 200+ reviewed books.

How does the structured book-review post format work (stars, pages, genre tags)?

The book-review post template in VeloCMS adds structured custom fields above the body editor: a star-rating block (1–5), a page-count text field, genre-tag multi-select (you define your own taxonomy — literary fiction, sci-fi, memoir, etc.), reading-format pill (physical / e-book / audiobook), and publication year. These fields render visually in the published post as a structured book metadata block — the way editorial review sites display it, not buried in prose. They also emit as JSON-LD structured data, which makes your reviews eligible for Google's book-review rich results in search.

Why is Serif the recommended theme for book bloggers?

The Serif theme was designed for longform reading — the kind of typographic care that printed books have and most blog templates don't. It uses a classic serif body font in a wide reading column (70 characters wide, the typographic optimum for comfortable reading), an optional drop-cap on the first paragraph of each post, book-spine-style section headings with small-caps, generous line height (1.8–2.0), and a warm off-white background that reduces eye strain across long reads. It looks like a literary journal, not a tech blog — which is exactly the aesthetic signal book bloggers need to establish credibility as serious critics rather than casual readers.

How do Bookshop.org and Amazon affiliate links work?

In Admin → Settings → Affiliates, add your Bookshop.org affiliate ID (format: yourname-21) and optionally your Amazon Associates store ID. When you paste a book URL in the editor (Bookshop.org or Amazon product page), VeloCMS automatically appends your affiliate tag and renders a visible affiliate disclosure above the link — FTC-compliant by default, without requiring you to manually add disclosure text to every post. You can toggle between Bookshop.org and Amazon per post depending on your editorial preferences. Admin → Analytics shows which affiliate links generate clicks and which reviews drive Bookshop.org traffic.

Can I run an annual reading challenge tracker?

Yes — the reading-challenge tracker is a static page (not a stream of posts) that you update throughout the year. Create a '/reading-challenge/2026' page in Admin → Pages, add a structured list of books (with status: to-read / reading / finished / abandoned), and update it as you progress. The page lives at a stable URL your readers bookmark. At year-end it becomes a permanent archive page — your 2025 challenge record stays at that URL forever, discoverable by search engines for 'book blogger 2025 reading challenge' queries. You can embed a progress counter widget (books read / books targeted) that readers check each month.

How do paid reading-group tiers work via BYOK Stripe?

In Admin → Settings → Membership, connect your own Stripe account (60-second OAuth flow). Create a tier — 'Reading Group' at $8/month — and choose which post categories to gate behind it: early reviews, monthly book-club discussion threads, annotated reading recommendations, reading-challenge accountability posts, 'books I didn't finish and why' candid takes. Members subscribe via your VeloCMS checkout page, Stripe processes the payment directly to your bank account, and VeloCMS charges 0% platform fee. The only cost is Stripe's standard 2.9% + $0.30. A 100-member group at $8/month is $800/month recurring.

Does VeloCMS support footnotes for literary essays?

Yes — the VeloCMS editor supports inline footnote markers (superscript numbers or symbols) that link to anchor references at the end of the post. Write a literary essay with in-text citations like ¹ and the footnote renders as a properly formatted anchor-linked reference at the bottom — not a parenthetical interruption. This works for page-number citations (Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, p. 74), source attributions, and extended commentary asides. The footnote block is part of the editor's formatting palette, not a plugin — available on all plans.

Can I cross-link reviews to other reviewed books (Goodreads-style 'shelf' feature)?

Yes — in any post or page, you can link to other posts you've published by searching your review archive from the editor's link menu. Type the book title, select from the autocomplete of your published reviews, and the link inserts with the correct URL. For a shelf-style browseable archive, use tag pages: tag all your 5-star literary fiction reviews with 'literary-fiction' and '5-stars' and your '/tag/literary-fiction/tag/5-stars' archive URL acts as your curated shelf — filterable, crawlable, and permanently live on your domain. You can build a 'Recommendations' page manually from these tag intersections, linking to each curated subset.