Comments on: Now Reading for WordPress 2.7

By: Jonathan Blake

Jonathan Blake — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:38:54 +0000

I want to second Joanna’s idea of having the manual add available immediately.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:41:37 +0000

Hi Ben :)
First of all, thanks a lot for doing this upgrade. I’ve been having some issues with this plugin, though.
First – my layout gets broken (see: http://www.pozaschematy.pl/czytelnia/), the sidebar ends up at the bottom. Where do I change stuff, in NR templates? What would be the quickest fix?
Second – when I do a search to add a new book, I get a blank screen. When I turn on the debug mode, I get a bunch of tables with XML and the amazon search result. Strange. But I’m able to add a book then.
Third – I rarely use Amazon (since they don’t have books in Polish, which is my language) and I redirect to Polish bookstores. It’d be great if the "add manually" option would be available straight away, without having to do a fake amazon search. In one of the first versions of NR I was able to hack it easily, now the code got more sophisticated and I don’t want to screw anything up. Any ideas?
thanks a lot
Joanna

By: Viitoria

Viitoria — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:20:18 +0000

Haha. You must be some kind of god — I’ve been waiting for an update like this since forever. Thank you so much.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:17:06 +0000

Those items are outputted as level-3 headers, which are sized a 24px, according to your theme. You might want to change it to more like 16px, or change the tags.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:50:47 +0000

I’m wondering if you can help me. For some reason the font for Planned, Current and Recent is huge on my site. http://theresafrasch.com Is there a way to make it smaller?

BTW I’ve been keeping track of my books read for years, this last year on Goodreads: 91!

Thanks.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:37:36 +0000

Christy,

Can you enable debug mode (in the NR options page) and post any additional details about the error?

By: Christy

Christy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:45:46 +0000

I wonder if you can help. Whenever I try to add a book I get an error. "Error adding book!" I don’t get any code errors can I can see, and the amazon lookup works fine. I’m on WP2.7, using PHP5 and MySQL 5.0. If I prime the database with a single bogus record, then I don’t get the error when I try to add, rather it seems to try and update the same record, though the details of the bogus record never change, even when I try to edit it.

Any thoughts?

By: Dayna

Dayna — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:07:31 +0000

I fix it by editing the URL inside the template-functions plugin file. I’m running version 2.7 by the way. Just wondering, is there a way to display a specific number of books randomly?

Thanks.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:02:50 +0000

What version are you running when you experience this problem?

By: Jonathan Blake

Jonathan Blake — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:03:29 +0000

I’ve only been able to add one book from Amazon so far.

When I search for books, the page seems to hang slightly (~1 second) and then comes back with the heading "Search Results" but nothing else, not even the stuff about adding the page manually. Looking at the returned source HTML, it ends immediately after that header. I wonder if the process is being killed as it’s writing the page because it takes too much memory or something. Debug mode didn’t give me any information (not surprising if the process is being killed).

The only way I’m able to add books is to put a single space in the title search field and search for that. The script successfully tells me almost immediately that it found no books and allows me to add manually.

I can’t find any documentation on search related problems, so any help is most appreciated.