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Your CabinsPress website is the public home for your author brand. It pulls together your profile, books, blog, shop, events, and mailing list into one place you control — no separate website builder required. You can build everything privately and turn sections on when you’re ready. This guide walks you through the setup in order, with links to deeper docs for each feature. Work on your Website here!

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Step 1 — Decide what’s live

Start on the Website author profile page.
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Three master switches control what readers can see:
  • Public Website — your homepage, book pages, link-in-bio, contact form, and mailing list signup
  • Ecommerce — products, cart, checkout, and buyer accounts. You’ll need to complete the seller onboarding to enable this feature.
  • Blog — blog index, posts, comments, and subscribe
Leave everything off while you configure, then flip the switches when you’re ready to go public. → Website / Shop / Blog Toggles

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Step 2 — Set up your author identity

Your Author Profile is the persona readers see everywhere on the site. Fill in your display name, URL slug, tagline, bio, portrait, social links, and up to five custom call-to-action buttons (e.g., “Pre-order Book 4” or “Join my ARC team”). Add Featured In links for press mentions — CabinsPress generates preview cards from the URLs automatically. → Author Profile

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Step 3 — Brand your site

Use Website Theme to match your visual identity: background, text, accent, button, and border colors, plus Google Fonts for headings and body. A live preview shows changes before you save. The theme applies consistently across your homepage, book pages, blog, shop, ARC pages, and link-in-bio. → Website Theme

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Step 4 — Configure your books for the public

Each book has its own website settings, separate from the manuscript. Set the public URL slug, visibility (hidden, coming soon, or active), sort order on the homepage, public description, and SEO overrides. Drag books to reorder them on your homepage book list. When a book is active, readers see a Public Book Page with cover, description, retailer links, aggregated reviews, content descriptors, and — if your shop is on — a buy button or redirect to the shop product. → Per-Book Website Settings · Public Book Page

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Step 5 — Add optional content

These features are ready when you are:

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Step 6 — Polish discovery and sharing

Before you share your site widely:
  • Set default and per-book SEO & social sharing images and descriptions so links look good on Twitter, Facebook, iMessage, and in search results.
  • Connect a custom domain (e.g., janedoeauthor.com) instead of the default cabinspress.com/authors/your-slug URL. CabinsPress walks you through DNS setup and provisions a security certificate automatically.
  • Add URL redirects on your custom domain for stable short links (e.g., /arc → your current ARC signup page).
→ SEO & Social Sharing · Custom Domain · URL Redirects

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What readers see

Once your toggles are on and your content is configured, here’s the public experience:
Your shop, ARC signup pages, and mailing list signup are covered in their own sections — the website builder connects them into one cohesive author presence.

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Next steps