silversteelwolf

Yep, I’m still around. I haven’t been actively working on any new features of late, however.

I just tested it on my dev installation and it seems to work fine on 3.1.3. Please let me know if there are any issues!

I’m having trouble reproducing this – the lines you’re referring to are pretty central to the plugin so if there’s something broken there I would expect it to be happening across the board.

You’re absolutely sure you’re using 1.1.2? There was definitely a problem with this part of the code a month ago that I fixed.

Could you also post the full error message you’re receiving? Would you mind describing what the environment you’re running WordPress in looks like? Things like WordPress version, plugins, hosting company, PHP version…

Did you install the plugin directly or did you update from a previous version?

Thanks for your patience!

Try setting the permissions on the files inside (specifically, the cache xml file) to the same as the folder – 755.

Awesome, that is good news indeed. Thanks for sticking with it!

Yeah, I think I found the real problem that was going on in that thread. If you were getting the exact same error message, the 1.1.2 update should fix it. Thanks for your patience with this!

Scratch the above – I think I found the real bug. If the fix works I’ll have the update up this evening.

This may help:

On my site, the booktuner directory is 755 (same for all WordPress plugin directories). Booktuner.php and booktuner_cache.xml both are at 644.

Okay, I checked on my development implementation and it was happening to me too. I had recently changed my password on the Goodreads site – after I went there and successfully logged in, the error message disappeared. Going into the options and clicking “save settings” forces the plugin to refresh the data; after that the list appeared as normal.

It looks like signing in to Goodreads and setting the “keep me logged in” cookie will fix this behavior for now.

I haven’t been able to replicate it by signing back out, but I’ll wait and see what happens. It would also be helpful to see if, when this is happening to you, it also happens when other people who are not the Goodreads user visit the site. I wish I had thought to test that before signing in myself.

This just started happening to me too today – looking into it.

Thanks for being patient and giving this plugin a shot. Let’s see if we can get this fixed.

When no books are displaying, can you view booktuner_cache.xml and verify that there is data stored there?

Also, is that file writable? When you hit “Save Changes,” the plugin immediately queries the API in case you made any settings changes – that output gets written to the cache file for later use. If it only ever displays books when you save changes, and it’s throwing a permissions error, the .xml file not be properly writable.

Does this continue to happen after the update? Somebody else saw their options get messed up after updating, but once they fixed them they stayed that way.

I’m assuming when you say “update” you’re talking about updating to the new version, right? Or do you mean when it refreshes?

Nice work, that looks great! Thanks for sticking with the plugin.

The settings should be saved between updates… But if the user ID field was cleared, did you also check the number of books field? If that’s blank it won’t retrieve anything either.

For what it’s worth, I checked out your site again and it looks it’s working, unless you put those rating subheadings in manually.

Just an update for folks here – I’ve added sorting and a tag for user rating in the latest version. It just inserts a number, which you can format however you wish (or use to fill out something like “X out of 5 stars”).

I’ve also tried to make it more clear that you need to use the Goodreads user ID number instead of the username, and changed how the plugin uses the API to hopefully get better results on the back end.

Please let me know how it works out and if you have more suggestions. Hopefully this makes it more usable for you!

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll see what I find time to do in the next few months. Stay tuned!