Suggestion: Ability to add optional custom fields

I actually added a FAQ about authors for just this question. ?? I’ll copy it here for you:
Why is there no Author field?
Mooberry Book Manager is designed to be used by the author on the author’s website. In this case, the author name would always be the same, and it’s already written all over the website.

There are cases though when you might want to have an Author field. You might be an author who publishes under multiple pen names and has a single website. You might be a small publisher who works with multiple authors. Or you might not be an author at all, and using Mooberry Book Manager for a different purpose, such as for a book club. In those cases you have two options:

1) To simply display the author name, you could use another field, such as Subtitle, to display that information.

2) For more advanced handling of author names, use the Mooberry Book Manager Multi-Author plugin (coming soon). This will allow you to have a bio and photo of each author as well as advanced filtering and sorting on Book Grids based on author.

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Since you’ve decided to use the series field for author name, if you are comfortable inserting a little code, you can use the following so that the display will change to “Books by <Author Name>” instead of “<Author Name> Series”. You could put this code into your theme’s functions.php.

add_filter('mbdb_book_grid_mbdb_series_title', 'mbdb_series_to_author', 10, 2);
function mbdb_series_to_author($title, $term) {
	return 'Books by ' . $term->name;
}

In regards to the larger question:

Would it be possible in a future release to allow optional custom fields to be added and included in the book display options, just as you already have with series and genre? This may make your plugin a lot more attractive to blogs with book reviews by many authors as well.

I will look into it and see what I can do.

Thanks!

Thank you mooberrydreams! I look forward to the release of the Multi-Author plugin.

In the meantime I will try out the subtitle option as you suggested, and am happy to continue to use the series field in the interim as this allows book display pages to be sorted by author this way.

I’m a newbie to WP so haven’t added code before but may yet give it a try ??

Thank you for your support. I’m impressed ??

An “Additional Information” field has been added in version 2.1. It displays on the book page after the reviews.

Thanks so much! Using this to house author blurb etc. Just 3 dozen books to update ??

Sorry to keep making you re-update the books. But I think this will work better for you. ??

That’s okay as I’m tweaking a couple other things at the same time – two birds, one stone. I’m halfway through and will continue tomorrow. Thanks for the really good update features!