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Hi @bdonovanw and @zarahoff,

The WordPress repository is now properly downloading the new 1.0.5 code for me, let me know if you have any further issues with updating the plugin.

~Tim

Hi @bdonovanw and @zarahoff,

This issue is being caused by a bug with the WordPress plugin repository. There’s nothing we can do about this problem until they address this issue. We’re reported the issue to the www.ads-software.com developers, you can track the progress of the issue here: https://meta.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/4587

~Tim

Hi @casinoduende,

We just released an update to MyBookTable that should fix this issue!

Hi @blogdiva,

You can use the [mybooktable book="<slug>"] shortcode with the display="summary" attribute to only display the top part of the book page. So for example if the URL slug of the book you want to display is my-new-book, your shortcode would be [mybooktable book="my-new-book" display="summary"]. You can learn more about our other MyBookTable shortcodes here: https://www.authormedia.com/how-to-harness-the-magic-of-mybooktable-with-shortcodes/

However, if you’re using the Gutenburg editor and have updated to the latest version of MyBookTable, you should be able to use our new Gutenburg blocks to easily insert these shortcodes into your post or page using the MyBookTable blocks.

Alternatively, if you’re using the Classic Editor mode you can also use the “Insert Shortcode” button above the content editor to easily insert a MyBookTable shortcode using our visual shortcode inserter.

Unfortunately there is currently no way to have MyBookTable always apply a given sorting rule even after new books are added. We appreciate your feedback though, we’ll consider adding this in a future update.

Hi @seeleyjames,

Thanks for reporting this, the Apple Books link you are using is valid, it appears that Apple recently changed the format of some of it’s book URLs recently though which is what is causing MyBookTable to not recognize it as valid. This will be fixed in the next update to the plugin!

Hi @sussexpatrick,

You can install the Zip file provided by gumroad.com using the following steps:

2. In your WordPress Dashboard go to Plugins -> Add New -> Upload
3. Select “choose file”, select your Zip file, and click “install now”
4. Click “Activate” under the the plugin on the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Once you’ve installed the upgrade plugin, you can enter your License Key on the MyBookTable settings page. You can find it by going to your WordPress Dashboard and selecting MyBookTable -> Settings from the WordPress menu and looking for “MyBookTable License Key” on that page.

Once you have activated your MyBookTable upgrade, you can also access our premium support by going to Go to MyBookTable -> Help from the WordPress menu and clicking”submit a ticket”.

Hi @casinoduende,

Thanks for pointing this out, we will investigate this and see if we can get this fixed in the next update to MyBookTable!

~Tim

Hi @nfillmore,

You can change the book blurb background with the following CSS rule:

.mbt-book.mbt-book-single.mbt-display-mode-storefront .mbt-book-blurb,
.mbt-book.mbt-book-excerpt .mbt-book-blurb {
	background: <color>;
}

The <color> part of the rule needs to replaced with an appropriate HTML color code. You can use a color picker such as the W3 Color Picker to get an appropriate color. It will look like a string of numbers and letters after a hash, for example the color code for red is #ff0000.

You should place this CSS in your theme’s CSS file, usually this is located at wp-content/themes/<your theme name>/style.css.

Hi @judylmohr,

We’re working on an implementation of the “Insert Shortcode” interface that works with the new Gutenberg editor that is the default in WordPress 5.0, but it is not available yet. All other functionality in MyBookTable is fully compatabile with WordPress 5.0.

In the meantime if you need to use the “Insert Shortcode” interface we recommend using the “Classic Editor” plugin like you currently are, or manually creating the shortcodes based on this tutorial.

Thanks for your patience while we get the new shortcode interface ready!

Hi @crossini4774comcastnet,

You can customize the order of your books using the Sort Book functionality available from the MyBookTable book list admin page as pictured here.

Hi @daw1236,

Thanks for the suggestion, we appreciate the feedback!

We will consider adding an option to allow for displaying progress by word count in a future update to the plugin.

~Tim

Hi @writerspark,

MyBookTable generally doesn’t have options to change the colors, but it is generally designed to simply use the colors of your theme without overriding them. You will need to override these styles by adding custom CSS to your theme in order to change this. (The one exception to this rule is if you happen to be using the “Landing Page” display mode that is available with the Professional/Developer Upgrades to MyBookTable, since that will completely override your theme styles, but in that case there should be a “Section Colors” option group under the book details editor that you can use to change those colors).

If you can send me a link to the page you are trying to change the styling for, I can give you some tips as to what CSS selectors you will need to use.

~Tim

Hi @jefficus,

There is no way to generate feed XMLs from shortcodes. This is not really a limitation of MyBookTable as much as it is a limitation of WordPress. The WordPress Shortcode system does not connect in any way to the WordPress RSS feed system. You would need to use custom development or another plugin or external aggregator if you wanted shortcodes to be factored into XML feeds.

However, if you’re trying to create an RSS feed for a certain MyBookTable genre, series, or tag, and you have “Compatibility Mode” turned off in the MyBookTable settings, you can get normal WordPress Archive pages for each of those that generate RSS feeds. You can see an example of this of a Genre named “Novellas” at https://www.cloudforesthosting.com/genre/novellas/ which has it’s RSS feed at https://www.cloudforesthosting.com/genre/novellas/feed/.

However when I tried this out on your site with the “IOD Jewels” tag, which has it’s archive at https://creativityhacker.ca/bookstag/iod-jewels/ and it’s RSS feed at https://creativityhacker.ca/bookstag/iod-jewels/feed, it doesn’t display the books in the RSS feed, which is probably because you have “Compatability Mode” turned on in the MyBookTable settings. This setting lets MyBookTable display correctly with a much wider variety of themes, but it also disables certain things like normal WordPress Archive pages. You may run into issues with MyBookTable pages displaying weirdly if you disable this feature, which you would need to fix by by providing templates for MyBookTable to use with your theme as described in “Fixing Theme Problems” on our Wiki. (Note that WordPress has extensive caching built into it’s RSS feed system, so even if you disable Compatability Mode it can take up to 12 hours for the new RSS feeds to be re-generated)

~Tim

That’s a great example, thank you @charlyleetham!