This plugin is now part of the official WordPress plugins repository. Due to a conflict with an existing plugin, however, its name is now “Now Reading Reloaded.” It is recommended that you disable the existing “Now Reading for WordPress 2.7+” plugin and enable this one; your books and such will not be affected.
Like many of you, I’m a fan of Rob Miller’s Now Reading plugin. But Rob’s been busy lately, and the plugin, while functional, doesn’t look too great on WordPress 2.7.
In an entirely selfish effort, I cleaned up some of the code (using the latest 4.4.4-beta code from SVN) to use some of WordPress 2.7′s built in styles.
Caveats
Before you download it, let me make some things perfectly clear:
- I have limited testing capabilities; I don’t have access to PHP4, so support for it is limited to whatever happens to work.
- Translations are no longer up to date, and will be even less so in the future. Contributions are (eventually) welcome.
- You must have WordPress 2.7 or higher. Older versions are not supported.
- Due to a change in Amazon’s API, you must now sign up for an access key in order to use this plugin.
General support questions should be posted to this plugin’s support forum. Patches are welcome via my contact form.
If you still want this, have a go at it.
Roadmap/ToDo
- Allow other data sources besides Amazon (?)
- Allow caching/saving of book images (planned for 6.0)
- Allow configurable book status (planned for 6.0)
- Tie more closely to WordPress API (planned for 6.0)
- Expanded DB schema (planned for 6.0)
- Shortcodes (planned for 6.0)
- Reworked templating system (tentatively planned for 6.0)
- Improve the UI
Well this morning is the first time I’ve tried to add a new book since upgrading to the latest version of Now Reading (4.4.6.1).
When I search by ISBN here are the results I get:
Sorry, but amazon.com did not return any results for the ISBN number 0061015733.
Sorry, but amazon.com did not return any results for the ISBN number 9780061015731.
And when I search by title I get this:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /home2/lookfou1/public_html/blog.thelifeofbrian.info/wp-content/plugins/now-reading/xml/IsterXmlNode.php on line 234
If you go to Amazon.com and search for either of those ISBNs you’ll see they are valid…
Any ideas what the problem is and how to fix it? :)
if you are on your own server edit php.ini and increase max memory size from 33554432 to i.e. 67108864 otherwise ask your hosting company to do that for you.
A couple reactions:
1) why would I need to change anything in my setup? I’ve had Now Reading installed for quite some time and it was working fine before the upgrade.
2) which php.ini? It looks like there’s one in nearly every directory. I tried changing this line:
memory_limit = 32M
inside the php.ini at my blog level (/public_html/blog.thelifeofbrian.info) to 64M, but it had no effect.
Thanks for your help
I’m not sure what’s causing these errors, but I’m getting the “no results” error as well. Possibly something wrong with Amazon?
When I have the time, I’ll try to go back and test against previous versions of the plugin to see if I broke anything.
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