Robert Heller
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WebLibrarian] Hyperlink FieldThe Web Librarian plugin is specificly meant for ‘real’ *physical* items (books, videos, etc.). If your digitized items are downloadable, you might be better served by a plugin designed for managing downloadable content.
Yes, you can change the theme and many themes have various configuration options, like color scheme, menu styles, number of columns, headers, footers, and so on.
There isn’t a field for mulitple authors, but you can fill in author names with ‘ands’ or with commas — eg “Smith, Jones and Doe, John” or some such.
OK, as to theme, that is pretty much a subjective choice and I really have no answer. You might get a better answer by posting in a more general forum section. The WebLibrarian itself is not partitularly dependent on the theme you select (at least as far as I know).
About giving site visitors access to the book (or whatever) catalog/database, please read the PDF documentation. There are several short codes that can be placed into either a page (or post) that is visible to web site visitors.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [wp-admin classic] Fixing multiple dashboard widget columns@sardisson: *my* use case is *always* a single column. Both of the computers I use (IBM Thinkpad X31 laptop and a 17″ monitor on my desktop) have the same pixel width: 1024.
The ‘new’ WP looks really *weird* on my screens. By *default* the base WP 3.8 dashboard has one 1/2 width column with all of the widgets on the left (stacked vertically) and an empty box all by itself on the right. Many of the dashboard widgets I have are scrunched too narrow (there are some bar graphs from the Download Monitor plugin I use, that just don’t work as narrow widgets). The dashboard (asside from the equally awful color scheme) looks really terrible that way.
I really hope the WP team re-thinks this dashboard design disaster. Taking column count screen option out is a terrible mistake. They *could* restore the option with a option for ‘automatic responsive columns’ or something along with a ‘fixed column count’ option. That way, they can have their ‘modern’ automatic responsive column feature for those that use a wide range of devices (eg iPhone on thr go, and big iMac screen at home/office, etc.) and a fixed number of columns for people like me, who are using ‘old’ UI techology (small laptop and ‘small’ old 4×3 VGA monitor).
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [wp-admin classic] Fixing multiple dashboard widget columnsWP up though 3.7 allowed setting the number of columns of dashboard widgets (1, 2, 3, or 4). WP 3.8 automagically decides the number of columns: 1 for mobile, 2 for (small) laptop-sized screens, 3 for large laptops / large desktop screens, etc. *Some* of us would like that control back. *I* have a ‘small’ laptop AND desktop screen (1024 pixels wide each), and use dashboard widgets that just don’t look right when squeezed down to 500 or so pixels. The *ideal* solution would be to restore the screen option for the number of columns of dashboard widgets. I don’t know if the WP team is going to do that or not.
The snippet of CSS forces dashboard widgets to be full width and to have only a single column of dashboard widgets. And gets rid of the empty widget place holder.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: 3.8 admin panel design is very badBTW: I’ve updated only one of my sites and will hold off updating the rest until 3.8.1, assuming 3.8.1 fixes the (many) problems.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: 3.8 admin panel design is very bad@andrew “see Olympa’s response regarding customising the dashboard…” — this does not fix the multiple columns on the dashboard. I’ve already loaded the plugin to fixed the ‘colors’ (wp-admin classic), now I want to fix the [stupid] ‘responsive’ (so called) Dashboard widget multiple-column, like it or NOT, disaster. Where do I hack that? I want to set it for any size == mobile device and get 1 column no matter how wide my screen is.
Awaiting a 3.8.1 release that fixes all of this nonsense…
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WebLibrarian] Title doesn't show as linkIf inlinemoreinfo = 1, moreinfourl gets set to the current page’s permalink. That is, the links are to the current page, with the necessary CGI parameters added on. If inlinemoreinfo is 0, then moreinfourl needs to be set in order for the links to be created.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: 3.8 admin panel design is very badOh, I also don’t like the 3.8 admin style.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: 3.8 admin panel design is very badIt’s responsive. Smaller viewport = less columns. Ex: 1650×1080 = 3 columns; Laptop res = 2 columns; mobile devices = 1 column.
What is the number of columns responsive to? I have a desktop and laptop, but with 1024×768 resoulution and I am getting 2 columns. I don’t *ever* want two columns — I don’t have enough screen realestate. Where in the code can I hack this?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WebLibrarian] Title doesn't show as linkI cannot reproduce this error. Everything seems to work for me. What version of WordPress, PHP, Apache (or are you using IIS?), MySQL, ahd what operating system is your *server* running (Linux or MS-Windows Server)?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WebLibrarian] Error in the Amazon Form when adding new booksWhat WordPress theme are you using in your example from the manual?
It is probably the default theme.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WebLibrarian] Error in the Amazon Form when adding new booksThis is some sort of PHP misconfiguration error.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WebLibrarian] Alternative LibrariesNote: at our local library, it is possible to ‘borrow’ childrens toys, although the library has not bothered to enter such items into the electronic (computer) catalog. So your idea is not totally outside of ‘normal’ usage.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WebLibrarian] Alternative LibrariesIt should be possible. The plugin is not designed to allow random users (patrons) to insert things into the collection database. One needs extra privs (eg role is ‘Librarian’ or ‘Senior Aid’). I would suggest (at least to start) having a *small* number of people with a role of ‘Senior Aid’ who would actually add items to the collection. It will likely require some training to add items to the collection. And that you devise a schema for the ‘call number’ identifing where tools are stored (such as codes for rooms, shelves, boxes, or bins, etc.) so that once a ‘hold’ has been placed on a tool, someone will be able to locate it, so it can be found and checked out.