Comments on: Now Reading news

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:14:43 +0000

Don,
Looks like it might be a mod_rewrite issue. Please doublecheck those settings.

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:25:31 +0000

oh, fabulous! I will test that out, but it puts me on the right track, I think, to have finer control over what is displaying in the sidebar with respect to the plugin. Thanks!

By: Don

Don — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:04:00 +0000

Love the plugin, which I just installed, but upon installing it, my library page is not working? Books show in sidebar and I can add/edit books in dashboard but if I click on the links to go to the library it doesn’t work. (http://www.tdbellenterprises.com/dbblog). I have copied the template files to the right place, etc. At a loss!?

Thanks,

Don

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:20:33 +0000

I haven’t fully test this, but you may want to try something like the following: in your sidebar.php template file, wrap the applicable markup in this:

	 if ( get_query_var('now_reading_library') ) {
		  usual markup goes here
		}			 
	?>

The templating system also uses now_reading_id and now_reading_tag and now_reading_search as query vars, so depending on which templates need to hide the sidebar portion, you’ll perhaps need to OR together the possibilities.

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:13:37 +0000

Thanks so much for your work on this plugin! I have (yet another) question that I hope you (or a fellow user) might be able to help with. I'd like to keep the sidebar in my theme on my library pages, but disable the Now-Reading widget on the library pages. I read Justin Tadlock's instructions on using the theme's functions.php file to disable widgets but am still a bit confused how I might do this for the Now-Reading widget, and only on the library pages. I don't know if it's best to do it in my theme functions.php file or to make the change in the template that I am using for NR, but any help anyone can provide would be most welcome!

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:58:35 +0000

You can change what gets displayed in the widget by changing the sidebar.php file in the templates folder. That is where the sidebar widget pulls content.

By: Abey John

Abey John — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:26:07 +0000

Thanks for upgrading the plugin, this is great!
I was wondering if you could please direct me on how I could make this plugin option available in the admin panel for users with the role of ‘Editor’ as well. I’m fairly new to wordpress, and I can’t figure out if the change needs to be made on the php pages or in the _options table. Any kinda hint would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!

By: Zeb Frye

Zeb Frye — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:53:46 +0000

I sent it via email. I couldn’t get the contact form to work for me for some reason.

By: Carlos S. Del Castillo

Carlos S. Del Castillo — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:32:17 +0000

Thanks for keeping this plugin alive. I would suggest one modification, allow users to select what gets displayed by the widget.
Right now, it displays all the books planned, currently reading and those read. For my site, I want to show only what I am currently reading.
I fix this by removing the Planned and Previously read pieces, but it would be great if that was an option in the widget itself.

Thanks!

By: Fips

Fips — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:35:20 +0000

Nice idea, it’s also a problem I’ve come across in the past.