dumplinglife

Sorry, I figured it out myself like right after. Go to User Role Editor and give the role access to wp-admin.

In my csv file, I wrote the pubdate to be 7/1/2020 but it showed up as “Nov/30/-0001”, so I was just wondering what format my date needed to be

So, just to clarify, users are not meant to be able to check out items from the website? Do you know of any library plugin that has this feature? This plugin is by far the best one I’ve found so far, so I’m kind of sad that it’s not meant to be used like that.

I’ve read the user manual again, and more thoroughly this time. I want my users to be able to virtually check out books from the website. I am confused because there is no login feature, so even after I create a patron, there is no way for a user to check out a book from my website.

I created a test patron. I put these 3 short codes on my page: weblib_editpatroninfo, weblib_editpatronholds, weblib_editpatroncircs. There is no way to access them because I cannot “log in” as my test patron. The only way I can see them is link the test patron to my WordPress account, but I cannot expect all my users to also signup as WordPress users.

So how would I let an ordinary non-wordpress user be a patron? When I go to the site logged out of WordPress, there is no way to become a patron.

That appears to be the issue. I removed those weird characters with a hex editor and it worked.

Thank you! You can mark this as resolved.

I’m using notepad to edit the file.

Also, where is the strange character (in the message with many “Undefined column:” messages)? I don’t see it.

also, should I surround the values in my header with quotes?

i.e., should it be this: “barcode”,”title”, …

or should it be: barcode,title, …

My quotes and commas are ASCII. My quotes have code 034 and my commas have code 044 when converted to Unicode.

Also, what character encoding do I need? I think the problem is my character encoding on the quotation marks and commas.

What text editor are you using? I just copy-pasted it into Notepad and saved it as a CSV file. Now it says:

Undefined column: ?“barcode”
Undefined column: ”title”
Undefined column: ”author”
Undefined column: ”description”
Undefined column: ”thumburl”
Undefined column: ”publisher”
Undefined column: ”media”
Undefined column: ”type”
Undefined column: ”category”
Undefined column: ”keywords”
Undefined column: ”subject”
Some mandatory columns are missing!