Thanks for the feedback! Goodreads provides several different cover sizes through their API, so it is possible for me to add an option in the GR Progress Widget settings where one can specify which size to use. Unfortunately my time and energy to maintain this (free) plugin is very limited, so I can’t promise if or when it will be done. I’ll keep it in mind, though.
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Bark
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Hi Chris,
I can understand that your time is limited, especially when it comes down to changing the script of a free plugin.
To create an additional option in your plugin is one idea, another idea I have is only changing the URL that imports the default book covers into ones with smaller dimensions in the current plugin. In this case the small and large option still scales the book cover image, but relatively less than the current situaties.
My current four displayed books with option ‘small’ enabled:
– 318x414px –> scaled down to 31x39px
– 302x475px –> scaled down to 31x47px
– 297x475px –> idem to 31x48px
– 296x475px –> idem to 31x48px
When I enable the ‘large’ option, my book covers are displayed max with an 73px width. This would imply that imported book covers with an max width of 100px would do the job, which would yield a 80-90% reduction in file size compared to the current ones 🙂
Anyway, this is just a suggestion and I already appreciate the effort you have put in.
Thanks!
Groetjes uit Nederland 🙂
Unfortunately, the final rendered sizes for the “Large” and “Small” options in the widget settings are dependent on the WordPress theme. I’ve seen several sites using this plugin that has much larger covers than yours, where even for the “Small” setting you would need the large cover image to make it look good. So I can’t base the cover size to fetch on the widget’s size setting.
One simple fix that you can do yourself, though, is to go to where the plugin is installed (IIRC it’s something like your WordPress directory/wp-content/plugins/gr-progress), then find the file Shelf.php, search for “book_large_image_url” and replace it by either “book_medium_image_url” or “book_small_image_url”.
Afterward you’ll need to go to the widget settings and clear the cover image cache (check the relevant checkbox toward the bottom of the settings and save).
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Bark
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Yes that did the job Chris. Thank very much, you made my day!
The Gtmetrix.com score is up to 97 again 🙂
Regards!
Great, happy to have helped. 🙂
