zookatron

That is an extremely strange bug you seem to be seeing. Obviously this is something that we have not seen on any of our test sites and it’s the first time anything like it has been reported. I think the most likely cause is that there is that you have some other plugin installed on your site that is not playing nicely with MyBookTable. The way we usually diagnose this is disabling all other plugins and then enabling them one by one until we see the problem, enabling us to pinpoint which other plugin is causing it.

Hi santigregori,

As a short term solution, if you are comfortable with PHP you can use MyBookTable’s template system to modify or remove the overview title: https://github.com/authormedia/mybooktable/wiki/Template-System-Overview
To summarize the solution you need in this case, you will want to go into your theme folder in wp-content\themes\THEME_NAME and create a new mybooktable folder there. In that folder you can copy over the overview.php file from the MyBookTable templates folder at wp-content\plugins\mybooktable\templates\single-book\overview.php. You can then edit this file in your theme folder to make the title show up any way you like. Note that this change will persist through any future updates to MyBookTable instead of being overwitten, so we encourage you to continue updating your MyBookTable plugin regularly!

As a longer term solution, we are working on getting translations built into our plugin itself, and if you’re willing we would really appreciate your help with translation! We’re currently using https://www.transifex.com/ to organize our translation efforts, so if you sign up there and let me know what language you’re translating to, I can add you to the translation project and get your translations added into the plugin itself right away!

~Tim

Hi Haristan,

Thank you for pointing this out to us, this is definitely a bug and will be fixed in the next update which should be released soon. We didn’t catch it immediately as it only shows up if you have a particular error reporting setup that it seems your server is running. Please let is know if you have any more questions or issues with using MyBookTable.

~Tim

Hi jcnietoher,

I’m glad you found the solution to your problem. We’ve been doing a lot of work to improve the localization of MyBookTable and we were wondering how you are going about translating MyBookTable for your site? Are you using a translation plugin like WPML, the translation files with “.mo” and “.po”, or just editing the plugin files directly? We’re working on trying to get translations for more languages built directly into the plugin so everyone can have them and we were hoping you might be willing to share some of the translations that you’ve done with us!

Thanks,
~Tim

If you use Google Analytics, we could set up a custom event to send to GA that would give you statistics on how often your sample chapter is being viewed. We already have statistics enabled for the Buy Buttons, so adding this to the sample chapter button as well wouldn’t be hard. Although I think if you used Google Analytics I believe you could simply view how much that particular file is being viewed directly without needing a custom event, I can’t remember. But anyway, that is one solution we could provide for this.

Hi Ken,

Unfortunately it’s not possible for us to make MyBookTable work out of the box with every theme, but we have put in a lot of work to try to make it as easy as possible to customize for situations just like this.

MyBookTable uses a template system that you can read more about here: https://github.com/authormedia/mybooktable/wiki/Template-System-Overview To summarize the solution you need in this case, you will want to go into the Atahualpa theme folder in wp-content\themes\atahualpa and create a new mybooktable folder there. In that folder you can copy over the wrapper-end.php file that you edited. This will ensure that your fix will persist through any future updates to MyBookTable instead of being overwitten.

From what I can see this clears up the problem with the duplicate sidebar under the content on Atahualpa. Can you be more specific about the “formatting around the footer content” problems that you’re seeing so I can direct you in how to address them?

claieaventur,

I have fixed that problem so if you download the new version it should address your problem. Let me know if you continue to have problems after redownloading the most recent version.

Hi sixtalonsign and sjedev,

Thank you for pointing this out and giving through details of what you were seeing, this turned out to be some kind of error with uploading the most recent version of the plugin to the WordPress plugin repositories servers. We just released a new version earlier today and for some reason if you downloaded it from the servers here the javascript you would get would not be the proper code for this current version, so I forced a re-update to the servers and bumped the version number up to make sure everyone re-downloads the correct code. The issues should be fixed for both new and existing websites now after updating and clearing your browser cache.

Thanks again for notifying us of this and let us know if you have any more questions!

We’re working on making the plugin more friendly for non-book stores, and so in the next update we should be changing this from “Book Overview” to just “Overview” since the “Book” part is already pretty redundant anyway.

In the short term, if you want to customize these types of things for your theme/website, you can use MyBookTable’s Theme Template System. The specific bit you are looking for is located in single-book/overview.php.

Hi @mrpaxson,

You are correct in thinking that this is due to MyBookTable’s image optimization. We default the image sizes to being a maximum of 400px high, since the majority of themes display the images at sizes smaller than this and making it larger would cause slower image loading. Due to the large variety of themes MyBookTable must support, there is no perfect setting for all themes, but we decided on this as the default as a reasonable trade of between image quality and load time. We will be adding a filter in the next version however so that if you are familiar with PHP it is possible for you to customize MyBookTable to display better for your particular theme by inserting this snippet into your theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter('mbt_book_image_size', 'customize_book_image_size');
function customize_book_image_size($size) {
    return array(378, 700);
}

Hi @peoples_pundit,

There shouldn’t be any issues with reinstalling the plugin. MyBookTable will make a new books page, but it wont affect the url, it will always use “/books/”. You can safely delete the old page by going into your Pages tab on the WordPress backend, then clicking the “Trash” button on the page.

~Tim

Hi @mrpaxson,

Thanks for pointing this out to us, this is indeed a reproducible incompatibility with the Elegant Themes Divi theme. It is caused by what appears to be a bug in the theme code that I will notify the theme developers of and will hopefully be fixed soon.

~Tim

Hi Fred,

I’ve tried installing DW Answers on our test site and I can’t seem to replicate the errors you’re seeing, which leads me to believe that it might be a temporary issue that you’re seeing. You should be able to clear this up by refreshing your permalinks by going to the Settings -> Permalinks tab in the WordPress dashboard and clicking “Save Changes”. Let me know if that helps or if you’re still consistently seeing issues whenever DW Questions & Answers is activated.

~Tim

Hi Jamie,

Thanks for pointing this out to us. This is happening because you are using Jetpack which we do not yet officially support compatibility with yet. You are having these issues because MyBookTable tries to create Facebook meta tags AND Jetpack tries to create Facebook meta tags, causing Facebook to become confused when it sees both of them. Hopefully we will add more complete support for Jetpack at some point in the future, but for now you should be able to address this by going into the MyBookTable settings tab and unchecking the “Enable SEO” checkbox to turn off MyBookTable’s Facebook meta tags. I cannot guarantee that this will give you all the Facebook features you want as I do not know how complete Jetpack’s Facebook integration is, but it is one way to stop them conflicting. You can also simply disable Jetpack if you value MyBookTable’s Facebook integration more than the features you are using from it.

~Tim

Hey @adantes,

Thanks for notifying us of this. We had to make some last-minute changes to the way the Amazon buy buttons worked in order to comply with some WordPress.com guidlines and it looks like we accidentally created a temporary incompatibility with the Professional version Add-on. This will be fixed in the next update released this week!

~Tim