Joseph Hinson

I’m not the plugin author, and I haven’t tried this..but you might get by with adding:

!empty($_GET[‘test’]) into the conditional field, then you could add the ?test=true to the end of whatever URL you would like to test, and the box will only show up on that page.

Hope it helps.

Hi Michael and griffithc,

The logic of the plugin works like this:

if image is set as featured, insert image and book links, otherwise if an image is inserted into the content, assume it’s the book image, and don’t duplicate the book image.

There is no easy way to programmatically know if the featured image is inserted into the content, so I could either ALWAYS have the image in the content, or have some way to allow for users to manage the image in the page themselves.

What I would do is wrap the book image and book links in a div like so:

<div class="alignleft">
<insert image here>
[booklinks]
</div>

Insert the image size as “medium” — this should preserve the look and feel of the box.

Hey Polycrhomatic,

If found this issue was a conflict between the this plugin and a plugin called WP Cron Control, deactivating WP Cron Control solved my issue. What I did to test was deactivate all plugins, then go through and activate them one at a time, saving settings for scroll boxes between activation until I came to the culprit.

Hope that helps,

Joseph

I’m having the same issue. Running WordPress 3.8.1.

Any ideas?

Hey Ronson,

I just downloaded the plugin and installed it with no issues on activation.

You shouldn’t be seeing this error at all if you have all the plugin files. Have you tried uploading it through WordPress’ upload form (Plugins > Add New > Upload)?

Two more things:

1) Who is your web host?
2) Have you tried deactivating other plugins that are unnecessary?

I’m sorry you’re having trouble with the plugin, but I’m unable to replicate the problem you’re having.

Hey Jason,

Just go to settings > MyBooks Settings and click “turn content filter off”

Thanks,

Joseph

Hi AngEngland,

The plugin doesn’t work that way at present. The [booklinks] shortcode only pulls in book links on the individual book pages, however, it’s a good idea.

If you use the code below and overwrite the contents of ot_book_shortcodes.php you can use the shortcode by passing a book ID like:

[booklinks id=”470″] (where 470 is the ID of the desired book).

Or you can hang tight and I’ll update it in the next version of the plugin.

<?php
// [booklinks text="hide" id="bookID"]
function products_booklinks($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
		"text" => 'show',
		"id" => ''
	), $atts));
	global $post;
	if ($id) {
		$theID = $id;
	} else {
		$theID = $post->ID;
	}
	$amazon = get_post_meta($theID, 'amazon_url', true);
	$bn = get_post_meta($theID, 'bn_url', true);
	$ceoread = get_post_meta($theID, 'ceoread_url', true);
	$indie = get_post_meta($theID, 'indie_url', true);
	$ibooks = get_post_meta($theID, 'ibooks_url', true);
	$itunes = get_post_meta($theID, 'itunes_url', true);
	$audible = get_post_meta($theID, 'audible_url', true);
	$bam = get_post_meta($theID, 'bam_url', true);
	$return = '';
	if ($text != 'hide') {
		$return .='<div class="order-book"><p class="booklinks"><span class="buy-book-text">Buy the book:<br /></span>';
		$return .= ot_booklinks( $amazon, $bn, $ceoread, $ibooks, $indie, $itunes, $audible, $bam);
		$return .='</p></div>';
	} else {
		$return .= ot_booklinks( $amazon, $bn, $ceoread, $ibooks, $indie, $itunes, $audible, $bam);
	}
	return $return;
}
add_shortcode("booklinks", "products_booklinks");

You’re very welcome @yakos.

Hi Yakos,

Yeah, when I saw that WordPress had a function called “has_shortcode”, one I also created…I knew it would break in 3.6.

No worries though, I have the fix and will update it by tomorrow.

Hang tight, and you’ll be able to just run the upgrade and it’ll be fixed.

Repled to ipublica both on youtube and through the support thread to resolve this issue.

ipublica,

This plugin uses a post type and WordPress’ template hierarchy to show all the books together in a /books template, which will adopt your site’s blog template. If you don’t want to use the slug “books”, here’s a solution that will work for you:

In the file mybooks.php, line 54, update the line:

'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'books'),
to:

'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'newslug'),

That should fix your problem. Now your “books” through the plugin will live at https://yoursite.com/newslug, and each single: https://yoursite.com/newslug/book-title

Note: You’ll need to reset your permalinks after updating the slug.

One additional note, please contact a plugin’s author before rating a plugin 1 star. We write these things and put them out there for free, and it makes the work very demoralizing to have someone lower the overall star rating before we’ve had an opportunity to help with the problem.

I will be updating the plugin so that the next version will update the permalinks automatically and restore any permalink structure that was modified.

Hey Michrichmond,

I found the problem you were having. None of your content is deleted…but the permalinks will need to be reset if you had pages called “books” with subpages under them. If you just go to Settings > Permalinks and click “save”, it will reset your old book pages so you can use them.

Hopefully you get this and it helps. I’m 99% sure this is the problem your having.

If you need any more help, please email [email protected]

I’ve tested every possible way this can happen. It was not MyBooks that deleted the data.

I’m marking this as resolved. Also, this is coming in a new version of the plugin.