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Update:

Not sure if this is related or not but now the shortcode for organizing by author is only catching one book. may not be related but thought I’d mention it with all the code we’ve been writing…who knows..

Uploaded.
Reserved the permalink structure (remembered to do that!)

Lots of good news:
It picked up the ‘old’ reviews and drafts with no hiccups.
genre category works inside the writing area
backside genre categories working
backside links to genre categories working
posts show up on the /book-genre/historical-fiction/ slug (or whatever the category)

1 Unresolved Issue
on the actual review page – at the bottom of the page there is the star rating, series, and genre information. stars and series are showing up and links working. Genre has a space but there is no info, nor links

Unrelated:
Eventually I’m going to construct an archive page that has all the genre’s on it and you can click from there.

Ok Chris = I’ll admit defeat.

I can’t figure it out. I did the resaving the permalink and changed that code. Obviously I’m missing something else….

I’m going to continue to use plugin and I’ll be your test pilot for any other ideas/solutions you have.

Epiphany —

In this file book-review-library/inc/func.php – this little section here that calls for the genres – doesn’t this have to all include that “book-review-genre” change like the other file?

/**
 * Get genres
 * returns a formatted list of genres (comma-separated by default) with links to each
 *
 * @since 	1.0.0
 *
 * @param 	$before 	string 		string to display before the genre
 * @param 	$after 		string		string to display after the genre (comma by default)
 * @param 	$forced 	boolean 	by default, if the item is the last in the list, the $after variable doesn't render. If $forced is set to TRUE it 									 will bypass this and render it anyway (e.g. if passing $before = '<li>' / $after = '</li>')
 * @return 	$genre_list				sanitized string of the results
 */
function get_genres($before = null, $after = ', ', $forced = false) {
	global $post;
	$genres = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'genre' );
	$genre_list = null;
	if ( $genres && !is_wp_error( $genres ) ) {
		$genre_out = array();
		foreach ( $genres as $genre ) {
			$genre_out[] = sprintf( '<a href="%s">%s</a>',
				home_url() . '/?genre=' . $genre->slug,
				$genre->name);
		}
		$count = 0;
		foreach ( $genre_out as $out ) {
			$genre_list .= $before . $out;
			$count++;
			if ( ( count($genre_out) > 1 ) && ( $after == ', ' ) && ( count($genre_out) != $count ) || $forced ) {
				$genre_list .= $after;
			}
		}
	}
	if ( $genre_list )
		return wp_kses_post($genre_list);
}

The beauty of your plugin is that it is lean and fast. I would imagine adding the auto-fill in and the prerequisite APIs would be quite a bit of code. I could be wrong but I’m not sure the work/bulk of that feature is worth it. My two cents.

Half-star – like your explanation. Still a great plugin.

Ok Chris…rechecked. My input was good – just like in your example.

Good:
So I have genre on the menu in the dashboard under the Book Review admin.
I have genre on the actual UI when I write the post.
The specific slug comes up when you click on genre in admin menu….

Not So Good:
leads to a 404 error, page not there.
Book Review Archive view in the dashboard – no genres are showing up. Blank.
Still no data/pages found with the changed slug title either.

thoughts? Do you want to talk via email about this?

I added it…still got an error but I was in a hurry so it could be with my execution – not your code. I’ll tackle it this afternoon.

Chris – you are the man. Thanks. We’ll figure it out.

Good news –
Genre returned to the back end screen where the review is written. I have a menu for it inside the Book Reviews admin. I can edit, change the slug name. All of that is good.

Bad news
Still isn’t showing up on front side. Only getting movies with /genre slug.

Options:
So there must be a way to change that slug to /book-reviews-genre…right? Is that the cleanest way to do it?

Or use a short code? Probably a short-code on a page, right?

Good night — that looks awesome.

I’ll be the guinea pig, I guess. Be back in a few.

Yes and yes.

Makes total sense and I wouldn’t want you to change the entire plugin for me. Although thanks for the offer! ha ha ha

I’m pretty comfortable with working with code – no expert – but I hack around. I did figure out how to include your plugin on my blog roll page.

Are you talking about editing your plugin on my site concerning the taxonomies? Like making it ‘book-genre’ instead of just genre?

I’m game. and thanks for help.

Thanks for the quick response. Appreciate it.

I do like the head box feature. I just think there is a lot of redundant info – like the metadata – director and movie classification that could be included in the head box at the outset. Still leave the links for the images and actors.

Of course all of that is personal preference! ha hah

Thank you, Charlie for a great plugin and help.

Added some border and padding and that did the trick. Thank you so much.

I’m not completely ready with the site yet – but here’s a sneak peak:

https://www.grantenglish.com/thereviews/movies/divergent/

no – the issue is not resolved. The solution ended up being worse than the original problem! ha ha ha.

Still waiting for more help.

Like this plugin but having the same issue – the code you listed above…

where exactly does that go?

Perhaps a solution???

I’m not sure how this will work with other sites, but we use sermon browser plugin on our blog with media elements.js with WPTouch.

Following the instructions in this support forum, I got the media to play in Wptouch while using media elements.

I am not near intelligent enough to tell you why this is working but maybe one of you can figure it out.