Nice idea, with a couple of issues

  • archprime

    (@archrime)


    2 months ago

    V5 of this plugin working pretty well.

    I had an issue that I was able to resolve (with the help of the plugin author!) around default display of amazon kindle retailer urls in particular are being adversely impacted by extra ‘available on’ text that gets overlaid with all amazon kindle retailer urls (apparently an Amazon requirement). Resolved by creating a custom retailer without that extra text.

    There appears to be no way to get book grids to centre justify with respect to a browser window width or to adjust the spacing between books in the grid etc – and for me the best visual compromise required the use of ‘bordered’ window mode for my WP theme.

    The book preview function also did not work for me – though this is an Amazon problem, rather than the plugin’s fault

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  • Plugin Author mooberrydreams

    (@mooberrydreams)

    2 months ago

    I replied to your support request but I will reply here as well.

    The text added is a requirement from Amazon. Since you are using an image that includes that text, you could choose to create another retailer for Kindle using that image, and use that instead of the default retailer. You can even delete the default retailer. (And in your review you have stated you have done such so I’m not sure why you are calling this a bug?)

    Not being able to center the book grid is an unfortunate side effect to the way the book grid is coded. It has been completely rewritten and fixed in version 5.

    The kindle preview is indeed working, as shown by the cover and preview buttons appearing on your page. All that Mooberry Book Manager does is send the ASIN of the book to Amazon and Amazon provides all the code to display the preview. If the preview is returning an error, that is coming from Amazon’s side, or as you suggest, could be due to the way the book is set up on Amazon.

    The Coming Soon ribbons do work and I see them on your site. Unfortunately I am unable to put a screenshot here. I see the Coming Soon ribbon on two books on your front page: Pacific Island Suite for Classical Guitar and Renaissance & Baroque Music for Guitar Ensemble. The Coming Soon ribbons also appear on each of those book pages. If you are not seeing them, are you perhaps running a caching plugin and it is showing you an older copy of your site?

    Thread Starter archprime

    (@archrime)

    2 months ago

    Thanks very much for your reply!

    I found the link and explanation re upgrading to version 5 here https://www.mooberrybookmanager.com/upgrading-to-mooberry-book-manager-5/ though installing it did not seem to make much difference to my particular issues

    With that extra text associated with kindle, the positioning of the text still becomes problematic if the page width is not constrained to ‘boxed’. (I tried but cannot seem to post a screenshot)

    I can create a second Amazon retailer, but this then invokes the same button image as the first – there is no way I can see to make the second Amazon instance invoke the kindle button image.

    I still can’t edit or delete or reposition the ‘Available on’ text – so this becomes a case of the tail wagging the dog – forcing a boxed width page to avoid formatting issues, and otherwise accepting the redundant text.

    Yes you are quite right! it was caching (in this case with Cloudflare) that was messing up the ‘coming soon’ banners for me – better now!.

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    Plugin Author mooberrydreams

    (@mooberrydreams)

    1 month, 4 weeks ago

    >>I can create a second Amazon retailer, but this then invokes the same button image as the first – >>there is no way I can see to make the second Amazon instance invoke the kindle button image.

    I do not understand what you mean by this. If you create a new retailer, you can set any image you want. (Assuming you have “Use Individual Buttons or Images for Each Retailer” selected.)

    >>I still can’t edit or delete or reposition the ‘Available on’ text – so this becomes a case of the tail >>wagging the dog – forcing a boxed width page to avoid formatting issues, and otherwise accepting >>the redundant text.

    If you create a new retailer for Amazon Kindle and use that instead of the default one, it will not add the text, and then you will not have to reformat it. If you simply edit the existing Amazon Kindle retailer, it will continue to add the text. To avoid confusion, delete the default Amazon Kindle retailer that comes installed with Mooberry Book Manager.

    If you would like to communicate in a better format that would allow screenshots, please feel free to email me at support @ mooberrydreams.com (remove the spaces of course).

    Thread Starter archprime

    (@archrime)

    1 month, 4 weeks ago

    Ah – thanks. The ‘add new retailer ‘ part is where I stumbled. When I had scrolled to the bottom of the list of retailers attempting to add a new one, clicking the ‘add more’ button there just skipped the focus back up to the existing ‘Barnes and Noble’ retailer – so I assumed I had misunderstood the ‘add more’ button’s purpose. But when I repeated the exercise a second time, this time a new retailer was created – and all worked as you suggested!

    Plugin Author mooberrydreams

    (@mooberrydreams)

    1 month, 4 weeks ago

    Excellent! Glad to hear it!

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