zookatron

Hi Natasha,

One of our biggest requests from users to improve the MyBookTable Widgets was to have the Buy Buttons show up in a shadow box instead of taking up lots of space on their sidebars. When we added this feature, we decided that since the majority of our users would want to use this we would have the Widgets default to using the new shadow box. If you would like to disable this feature, you can change this easily by going to your Widget settings under Appearance and unchecking the “Use shadow box for Buy Buttons” checkbox on your Featured Book Widgets.

We are adding an option to remove the Find a Local Bookstore section from the shadow box as well in the next version of MyBookTable, which should be released very soon.

~Tim

I have contacted you via our support system, so I’m marking this as resolved.

Thanks,
~Tim

No problem, good to hear everything is working for you again as well.

No problem, I’m glad you got it fixed! ?? Let us know if you run into any more problems using MyBookTable, we’re always happy to help.

@mcshanecomm:

I can send you an older version of MyBookTable if you insist, but you must know it will be completely unsupported and that the Professional and Developer Upgrades will not work with it. I’d also highly recommend that you try to get your host to update your PHP, PHP 5.2.17 is over four years old and it is potentially quite dangerous to run such old versions of PHP on public-facing websites.

@ksjones:

Have you contacted your hosting provider to verify that your particular website is indeed using PHP 5.3.9 or newer? Newer versions of MyBookTable simply will not work with anything less than PHP 5.3. If you are absolutely sure that you are using a newer version of PHP and that the Out of Date message is in error, please be sure you have removed the old version of MyBookTable 2.0.2 (Note: you must use FTP to remove your old version, do not use the “Delete” link on the WordPress plugins page or it will delete all MyBookTable books, settings, authors, and series from your website) and download and install this special version that removes the PHP check: https://www.authormedia.com/wp-content/plugins/mbt-api-backend/mybooktable.2.0.2.nocheck.zip

Hmmm, yeah, it might be that some hosting providers are being less than honest about the PHP versions that they are displaying ??

Versions of MyBookTable 2.0.0 and up make use of slightly newer PHP functionality that will crash your site if you have less than PHP 5.3.0, and it is highly recommended that you have at least 5.3.9, which is what we check for in the PHP checker.

~Tim

If you are using MyBookTable 2.0.2 and MyBookTable Developer Add-on 1.2.1 then your Universal Buy Button, Amazon Affiliate settings, and Barnes & Noble Affiliate settings should be available to you. If you have updated and are still having problems using these features, please submit a ticket to our Premium Support here and we should be able to get you up and running again quickly.

Please note that there are some new features in MyBookTable 2.0 such as the Amazon reviews functionality and the Commission Junction Affiliate settings that require the MyBookTable 2.0 Upgrades, which can be purchased separately from here: https://www.authormedia.com/products/mybooktable/upgrades/

~Tim

Wow, I did not expect this to happen, I apologize for this. I added this since we had a lot of people on old PHP versions who were updating the plugin, and unfortunately WordPress does not check for PHP errors when you update a plugin, only when you activate it, so it was crashing their sites. The check uses the PHP_VERSION_ID and PHP_VERSION constants, which I thought were reliable ways to test the PHP version (it worked on the 3+ different servers and hosting platforms we tried it on) but it’s possible that is not be the case.

If any of you know how to tinker with PHP, could you try quickly running
<?php phpinfo(); ?> on your site and show me what it outputs, that would help me track down what is going on.

For the time being, I have provided a version of 2.0.2 (which has other important fixes, so you don’t just want to downgrade) without the PHP check here: https://www.authormedia.com/wp-content/plugins/mbt-api-backend/mybooktable.2.0.2.nocheck.zip

Hi cizur,

We just released version 2.0.1 which should fix any problems you are seeing. Please update your plugins and let us know if you have any further issues using MyBookTable.

Thanks,
~Tim

Thanks for the suggestion, we’ll look into adding a star review system.

The SOMC notice bug is known and will be fixed in the upcoming update that will be release early this week along with lots of other new features, stay tuned.

~Tim

Hi all,

I just released MyBookTable 1.3.8 which has a fix for this problem. Thank you all for the feedback.

~Tim

Hey guys,

Here’s a version of 1.3.7 without the PHP error fix which should solve this issue for you in the short term: authormedia.com/wp-content/plugins/mbt-api-backend/mybooktable.1.3.7.nofix.zip

We’ll be looking into the cause of this more over the next week and should release 1.3.8 shortly that will hopefully resolve this incompatibility.

~Tim

Hey JimHeskett,

Unfortunately I can’t seem to replicate your issue on any of our other websites that are running MyBookTable.

The cause is probably a fix that we added in 1.3.7 that fixed some PHP errors that would crop up if people had messed up metadata for their book images, and causes it to fall back to using the default black book image if it sees invalid metadata instead. There must be something unusual about your WordPress setup that’s causing the metadata to look invalid.

If you’re willing, I could take a look into the code of your site to see if I can find out what’s causing this incompatability. You can contact me at [email protected].

Hey Erioch,

I’m still confused as to what exactly you are trying to achieve. In your first post you said you wanted to “create a tag for the main page and create the same tag in My Book table”, what is the “main page” that you are talking about? Can you be more specific about what exactly you are trying to achieve?

As for your code, it seems to be properly querying the books for all books that have any of the given tags, so I’m really not sure what the problem you are seeing is.

The MyBookTable book tags are a completely different taxonomy from the built-in WordPress post tags, so you can’t normally pull books and posts in a single query easily. Also, books will not display properly if treated like posts, so I’m not sure how you plan on using this query exactly.

Are you trying to do this query with PHP code? If so, could you post the code here so I could try to get a better idea of what you’re trying to do? I’m somewhat confused as to what the end result you are trying to achieve is.