rcno-full-book-description / Also in the series

Hello listronosz,
I have read through what you have written a couple time to make sure that I fully understand what you are trying to achieve.

I like the idea of a “Also in series” feature but I don’t know what it would look like. Can you provide me with an example of this in action or description of how it would work?

As for adding media to the “book description” area, I am certain. From may tests adding an image to this area would break the layout on the frontend.

I will wait on your response before I make any decisions on code additions or changes.

Hello,

I had “Also in series” section in my last plugin that I was using to manage my reviews. But I’ve decided to start using Recencio, because it is much better to me.

Here is a link to one of my reviews: https://czytoholik.pl/books/rozbite-okno/
There is still old plugin used on this page. Below the book details section you can see “Z tej serii równie?” what means “Also in series”. In this example there are covers with links from other books from the series about Lincoln Rhyme by Jeffery Deaver.

In the back-end there is special box: “Series number” where I can enter whether the book is 1st, 2nd etc. in the series.

I thought I could use Book description area in your plugin to put there some images with links, but for now it is to difficult to me.

Please take a look on my example page and let me know if you like this solution.

Regards,
Kamil

Hello,
by your description and example, I now understand how this feature is suppose to work. I am now going to think how to best implement it in the structure I have in place.

Please note that I don’t think i will place this list of books in the book description area as placing it there looks rather haphazard to me

What do think of adding a “Series Number” box to the “General Information” area as a means of getting that information?

From there I can get the list of books in a series and sort them by the series number value. That part should be easy because I already have a way to get all the books in a series.

Hello,

At first, thank you for being so interested in adding this function.

Adding “Series Number” box should be fine, but I don’t know exactly how it is going to look like on front-end. All I know is that I’m sure that you’re gonna do it very well ??

Kamil

This is what i’ve come up with: https://imgur.com/0Cawcn2

But I don’t know where to place it.

It looks great! This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks!

It might be placed just like it is on your printscreen – at the bottom of the review. Or maybe it could be at the beginning of the review? Just below the book cover and book description? What do you think?
If you don’t want to place it at the beginning of the review then just leave it just like it is on your example – it’s great, I love it.

Regards,
Kamil

Are you comfortable with shortcodes? I could create one that you could insert wherever you want it in your post.

Eg. [rcno-book-series]

Yes, shortcode sounds like a great solution!

Thank you.

OK, it will be in the 1.7.0 release, it should be available on Friday.

Wonderful!

Thank you once again.

Hello,

After upgrading Recencio plugin to 1.7.0 version all of my custom taxonomies stopped working. When I click on them I receive “Page not found”.

I flushed the permalinks settings few times but it didn’t help. I also deactivated all plugins instead of Recencio, but the problem still exists. I even changed the theme to a basic one, but it also didn’t help.

I’ve upgraded Recencio also on two other test-sites but problem didn’t show there. It occured only on my blog and I’m a little bit concerned about it.
Do you have any idea what could I do to make it works properly?

After few hours of looking for the answer I decided to restore 1.6.3 version of the Recencio plugin and it helped. Now everything is working fine but I can’t upgrade the plugin.

What could be the reason of this situation?

Regards,
Kamil

I know why it happening.

It’s because I start prepending the the custom post type before the custom taxonomy pages. Before this update the if the custom post type slug was review custom taxonomy page would something like /genres/fantasy/. After this update the custom taxonomy would now be reviews/genres/fantasy/

The issue is most likely you are using a post type slug that does not pluralize well.

What are you using as the slug for reviews? I’ll create a patch that solves your current issue with this change.

Thank you for quick response.

I’m using ‘recenzje’ as a slug. And I added this word to “Uncountable Words” box in setting because plugin was automatically adding ‘s’ to my word.

By the way, now I realized that I will probably have a problem with “Also in series” feature, because I’m not using “Series” as a taxonomy name. I created polish word “Seria” instead. Will this shortcode work for me or should I use original name for series?

Gimme a minute, I am working on a solution for the first issue. The second one needs some thinking