cmeeren

Hi again. I just released a bugfix that may have been the cause of some of your troubles. Please update to 1.4.1 and see if it works. Remember to save your widget settings after updating. ??

Works fine here. I get an empty shelf, which seems correct given that your currently-reading shelf is empty. No error messages. Your to-read and read shelves also display correctly.

Please try again, might work now.

If your settings are correctly entered at your end, and it still doesn’t work, then something else must be wrong. I’m marking this as resolved since it’s not an error on part of the plugin, but let me know if you find out anything interesting or if you get it working.

Thank you very much! ??

I just tested with your profile ID, and it works here. I think we’ll get to the bottom of this. Could you please send me the following settings?

– Name of Goodreads shelf
– Display review: yes/no
– Display links: yes/no
– Max number of books
– The three sorting options
– Reading progress (hide/text/bar)
– Display time since last update: yes/no

Then I can test myself and figure out exactly what’s wrong.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by cmeeren.

Also, make sure your profile is public, as mentioned in the note on the settings screen. ??

The “-kyle” part shouldn’t matter; if you go to https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/30403993, you’ll still see your profile.

If you type in 30403993, it should work. Also, please make sure your API key and shelf names are correct.

Let me know how it went.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by cmeeren.

Sounds odd. It should pick a consecutive string of numbers from whatever you write in that field, and save those numbers. What’s the Goodreads profile URL you’re having trouble with? And what happens if you use just the numbers from your profile URL, i.e., if you use just your profile ID?

Also, some browsers act a bit weird. Try using Ctrl-F5 to force-refresh the widget settings page after you’ve saved the widget.

Oh, I see what the problem is. The plugin is getting the cover URLs from the bookshelf’s RSS feed. This feed is unfortunately capped at 100 books (from Goodreads’ side, nothing I can do), so the plugin will only find 100 of the cover images (I have no idea about the sorting it uses – it might be entirely random, which means that each time you call it with ?force_gr_progress_update, different covers might be added to the cache).

While it would be possible to fetch the cover image from the website of each displayed book individually, this is a suboptimal solution that requires several webpages to be downloaded (the covers aren’t displayed in the API results from Goodreads, so I either have to get all of them using the shelf’s RSS feed like now, or download the entire HTML of each book’s Goodreads page and parse that, which is very slow – I’ve tested).

So I’m sad to say that unfortunately, there is no easy solution to your problem. My suggestion is simply to show shelves containing fewer than 100 books. You could, for example, create additional shelves on Goodreads for the purpose of displaying on the blog. Or, as I do, use the main shelves (to-read/currently-reading/read) for displaying on a blog, and then create another to-read shelf to place all the other hundreds or thousands of books. In other words, prioritize what you actually want on your blog (inasmuch as selecting 100 books for each shelf is prioritizing). ??

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by cmeeren.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by cmeeren.

I’ll look into it. Could you give me an example of a book on GR without cover image?

Thanks for a kind review, and I’m happy your problem got resolved quickly. ??

Great! Happy to hear it got resolved, and that it was a caching issue after all. ??

It might be the drop-in cache plugin. Not sure how to remove that.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by cmeeren.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by cmeeren.

I see the old one with the two books. I’m not sure what could be causing this. AFAIK there is nothing in the code that could cause this. You say you see the new version right after saving the widget settings? Can you explain to me step by step what you do to see the new version, and then the old version? Also, is there any difference if you don’t tick “reset cover URL cache” (which should not be necessary)?

If you could give me the address of your website, I can see if I see the old or new config on my end. Please also let me know how to differentiate the old and new config.

I assume it’s caused by a caching plugin. Are you using one?

Fixed! After updating, tick the “Reset cover URL cache” box in the widget settings and save the widget (any of the widgets if you have multiple of them).