Hi Thomas – thanks for replying! I tried all of those things to no avail already, then eventually got frustrated and built the same thing manually in HTML instead. I’m only using the plugin for its sidebar widgets at the moment, but I hope you do update it in future. I think it’s a great idea, it just needs a bit more compatibility.
I’ll give you a list of the things I noticed and ideas I had for potential solutions. Hopefully, constructive feedback will be helpful!
– When used on pages, the plugin produces a template that is quite large and unwieldy. I would suggest adding the ability to easily rescale the whole book’s output.
– The buttons on the widget are much too large for some sidebars. I had to manually resize them in Photoshop to make them fit. I would suggest adding a function to pick large/medium/small for those, as well – much like you have for the cover art.
– The ability to turn on and off the blurbs on the Widget. I didn’t want a blurb on my front page, so I had to manually delete the blurb to get rid of it.
– Many themes use Page Templates to guide the shape of their pages, rather than just using one template. Adding a metabox (I think that’s the name for them) to the Edit Book page that allows people to select the template they want their page on would solve that.
Let me give you an example:
– My non-MyBookTable Page – https://vldreyer.com/literature/the-survivors-book-i/
– My MyBookTable Page: https://vldreyer.com/books/the-survivors-book-i-summer/
You’ll see that the first page is a full-width page, while the one auto-generated by MyBookTable has a sidebar. I don’t want the sidebar on the individual pages, but no amount of kicking, screaming, smacking code or howling at the moon could make it pick the right template.
Hope this helps!
