My Reads Default Pattern

  • Resolved library kaiju

    (@d20dad)


    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hi! I’d like to make some changes to the default post pattern on my site, but it appears to be locked. I can edit the pattern in individual posts, but my layout changes are significant, and I’d rather not have to do that for every post.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Nate Finch

    (@n8finch)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hi, thanks for reaching out!

    Great idea, I’ve got that on my roadmap, but I can move that up.

    I’m thinking I can make it work so you:

    1. Create a saved pattern
    2. Select that pattern in the settings

    Would that work?

    I’ll get to work on this… maybe give me a few days?

    Thanks again for the feedback, I really appreciate it! 🙂

    Nate

    Thread Starter library kaiju

    (@d20dad)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Wow, yeah — if users could set their own default patterns in the settings it would be fantastic.  Thanks, man!

    Plugin Author Nate Finch

    (@n8finch)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hi there Kaiju (is that your name?),

    I’ve made the update, you can see the new options in the settings screen now:

    Let me know how that works for you.

    Cheers,

    Nate

    Thread Starter library kaiju

    (@d20dad)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Sweet! It’s been a busy couple of days. I’ll install it tonight and report back!

    Thread Starter library kaiju

    (@d20dad)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    It seems to be working! I appreciate you rolling this out. You can see the results here:

    https://brandonjs.blog/my-reads/robin-year-one/

    A couple of bugs to report:
    1. I added this using the csv upload method just to experiment. I accidentally mistyped the format and it seems to have broken the media block on the post. Deleting it and re-adding it does not fix the issue, but the block on another draft post I have is working.

    2. the Amazon link doesn’t seem to be fetching any data. It says it completes, but nothing changes. It’s supposed to pull the image and title, right?

    Another thought:

    If a user wanted to batch upload a TBR reading list, maybe the default on csv import should be set to ‘draft’ or ‘pending review’?

    Thread Starter library kaiju

    (@d20dad)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hi Nate,

    I just noticed that my custom template for My Reads is also loading on my regular post type as well. Under the settings menu in My Reads, I noticed I can see other post templates that aren’t in the “My Reads” category, so maybe that has something to do with it.

    Plugin Author Nate Finch

    (@n8finch)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hey Brandon,

    Thanks for reaching out about the bugs. That last one you sent, I fixed immediatley, so v.1.0.2 is up. Thank you so much!

    For the other two:

    1. So, to clarify, you did something like “bbook” instead of “book”, right?
    2. I’ll have to test what might be going on there… does it work for the default pattern that ships with the plugin? Or is that broken too?

    Thank you again!

    Nate

    Thread Starter library kaiju

    (@d20dad)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Thanks for the quick fix!

    1. Specifically, I uploaded a CSV with a “comic” instead of “comic book”, but yeah that’s the gist of it.
    2. This morning the Amazon link fetched data for 4 draft posts with no problem before it stopped working. Then I tried clicking other formats and using those links and it worked again. I’ll keep an eye on it and try and figure out what happens when it stops working.
    Thread Starter library kaiju

    (@d20dad)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hi, Nate; So the Amazon link seems to fetch the book data just fine now. Maybe it was a problem on my host’s end. Everything seems to work as it should.

    Plugin Author Nate Finch

    (@n8finch)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hey Brandon,

    Solid, glad that’s working. What I think might be happening is that, since the request that fires off to Amazon is basically scraping the page, I’m sure there’s a rate limit to servers doing that. If you’re only doing it once every couple of minutes (i.e., like a regular person), probably not a big deal.

    But if you’re lining up posts and rapid-fire requesting images, that might be an issue.

    It could also be that, if you’re on shared hosting, other folks from the server are also doing the same kind of pinging or scraping, in which case Amazon (rather AWS) would limit or block your requests from time to time.

    Besides that, I’ll get some fixes out to make sure that if folks import the wrong meta, it doesn’t break things… Thanks for that bug, stay tuned!

    Cheers,

    Nate

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