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Hi @beccarosenkrans,

I’m seeing the book blurb as the same on both pages you linked: Both have the exact text “In 1943, during World War II, Pam meets the Women’s Air Force Service Pilots, and discovers exactly what she wants to be. She even begins to build her very own plane. But when her friend becomes sick, Pam has to decide what is most important. An adaptation of WINDSHIFT by Joyce Faulkner”. Can you clarify further what the issue is here?

As for the issue with the individual book pages showing an empty sidebar, this seems to be an artifact caused by the theme you are running. We have but a lot of effort into making MyBookTable as compatible as possible with as many themes as we can, but unfortunately it is impossible to provide 100% compatibility with all WordPress themes out of the box. You can try toggling Theme Compatability Mode in the MyBookTable settings, but this may lead to other worse visual problems on your MyBookTable pages. The only way for you to have 100% compatibility with your theme is to create custom PHP templates that allows MyBookTable to integrate with your theme’s style. You can read more about this process on our wiki here.

As for the problem with the mismatching image sizes, this is caused by the sidebar appearing on the individual book pages. The book image sizes are not correlated to exact widths, but to percentage widths of the page size. Since the individual book pages are narrower, the image will be smaller. This can be over-ridden with custom theme CSS if you have a theme developer willing to make these modifications to the theme.

Do you happen to have GoDaddy hosting? We’ve had this complaint before from GoDaddy customers and unfortunately GoDaddy has not been cooperative in fixing this issue with their servers.

In any case, since you have an Upgrade you can access our premium support via our website to get this issue resolved: http://www.authormedia.com/support/

Hi @angikeeley,

In the current version of MyBookTable, the Amazon and iTunes buy buttons look different from the other buttons in order to comply with their corporate trademark guidelines. These companies have strict rules on how their logos can be used on websites and we’ve been trying to better comply with these rules in our plugin.

However in upcoming versions of MyBookTable we’re planning on implementing better solutions to this problem for people who want their buy buttons to all look the same. Stay tuned for our next update which should be released soon.

~Tim

We’ve put a lot of effort into trying to make MyBookTable as compatible as possible with as many themes as we can, but unfortunately it’s not possible for MyBookTable to work perfectly with all themes out of the box.

It does look like MyBookTable’s Compatibility Mode system is confusing your theme’s navigation menu. You can try turning off Compatibility Mode from the MyBookTable settings page on the Setup tab.

However, turning off Compatibility Mode might cause other problems with your theme. The only way to guarantee full compatibility with your theme is to create a template file that MyBookTable can use to integrate properly with your theme. You can read more about this on our developer wiki <a href=”
https://github.com/authormedia/mybooktable/wiki/Fixing-Theme-Problems”>here. This is generally quite easy if you are familiar with PHP development, you just need to copy/paste the right parts from the theme’s code to the MyBookTable template.

~Tim

@paross, it looks like your theme is not compatible with MyBookTable. It is generating some Javascript that is interfering with the Shadow Box Buy Buttons. You should either turn off the Shadow Box or try using a different theme (I would test to make sure it is working with the built in WordPress themes).

~Tim

It is not possible to have two MyBookTable installs on the same site.

The recommended way to achieve what you want is instead of directly linking to your Book Table Page on your menus and sidebars, which will list all of your books, link directly to the Author pages, which will list only the books of that particular author. It will still be possible for users to find the main Book Table page that lists all the books together, but prominently displaying the author pages as separate is usually enough to clearly denote separation for most of our users.

If you absolutely need stronger separation than this, the only solution is to extend the MyBookTable functionality with custom PHP development.

~Tim

Hi magnusarias,

First, I would try temporarily disabling the other plugins you have installed, to see if them being active is what is causing the problem. If you disable them and the problem goes away, re-enable them one at a time to determine which one is causing the issue. If you can narrow it down to a single plugin incompatibility, I should be able to give you more specific advice on how to solve the issue you are seeing.

~Tim