zookatron

What are the choices you are seeing when you go to enable the Amazon and Barnes and Noble buttons? There should be only three choices: Enable these buttons, Disable these buttons, or purchase an Upgrade to use the buttons with your own affiliate code. If you’re not sure what to choose, just choose to enable the buttons.

~Tim

I believe this is a manifestation of a known bug in MyBookTable that has to do with how the Grid View feature interacts with the shortcodes implementation. This bug will be fixed in the next update to MyBookTable which should be released soon. Please let me know after updating if your problem persists.

~Tim

Hi @pippajeffcock,

Thanks for reporting this. This appears to be caused by the MyBookTable Style pack system not properly checking if folders exist before accessing them. We didn’t catch this because the default PHP behavior is to let these errors pass silently, but it looks like with certain server configurations they generate errors. This should be fixed in the next version of the plugin.

~Tim

Hi dakottaventures,

We just released an update to MyBookTable that includes a bug fix for the issue you are seeing. Please update your plugin and let me know if you continue to see this problem.

~Tim

We know because we have had many more support requests from people asking how to remove comments from their book pages. Many themes do not properly look at the ‘supports’ value and show the comments anyway, which many of our users have found undesirable.

We have a “decisions not options” policy for our plugin, following the WordPress Philosophy. We actively try to keep the plugin as simple and easy to use as possible for new users, which sometimes means leaving out options that only a few of our users will ever want. As it is currently, this is something that would help very few people and would confuse many more, since like I said the ‘supports’ value is not always even used properly by themes. We do, however, want to allow the full range of flexibility to advanced users, and support whatever kind of customization you need via custom PHP development, as I said.

The book blurbs do not support shortcodes. They are intended to be short textual summaries of the book content.

If you absolutely require custom content in your blurb, you can add it with the “mbt_get_book_blurb” hook.

Hi @pastor.healer, Thanks for letting us know.

As far as we can tell, the original bug with the Manual Book selector is fixed. We’ve tested it on multiple sites and configurations and can’t reproduce any errors.

You may want to try it again after clearing your browser’s cache to ensure that you aren’t still looking at the old broken JavaScript that was causing the error originally.

If that doesn’t help, the error you are seeing may be caused by an incompatibility with some other plugin on your site or your theme. Some themes have custom Widget systems that our scripts may be incompatible with. You might want to try disabling other plugins and themes and trying it to see if it works properly without these variables.

It looks like your theme has compatibility issues with MyBookTable. If you scroll down you will see that your sidebar is pushed down below the page content on your Books page. This is because MyBookTable is not generating the HTML that your theme expects so it is unable to format it correctly. While we have put a lot of effort into trying to make MyBookTable as compatible as possible with as many themes as we can, it is impossible for us to support all themes completely out of the box.

I would recommend you first try to toggle “Compatability Mode”, which you can find on the Setup tab of the MyBookTable Settings page. If that does not work, the only way to make MyBookTable work with your theme is with custom development. You can find details about how to do this on our wiki at https://github.com/authormedia/mybooktable/wiki/Fixing-Theme-Problems.

~Tim