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Hi @writerspark,

We’ve been testing MyBookTable extensively with Divi, and we have not been able to reproduce any timeouts of any sort. Could you provide more details on exactly what you do to see this error? A screenshot of the error in question and the steps leading up to it would be ideal. If possible, could you try disabling your other plugins other than MyBookTable to see if it’s not caused by a combination and MyBookTable and some other plugin?

~Tim

Hi @janeenippolito,

As @charlyleetham mentioned, the recommended way to accomplish this is by using Book Categories or Book Tags to split up your books in any way you’d like, and then use shortcodes to display just the different categories on different pages.

~Tim

Hi @jefficus,

MyBookTable doesn’t have any filters in its shortcodes to change how it interprets the shortcode arguments. It’s recommended that if you need special functionality there you should create your own modified shortcode function in your theme. You can refer to how MyBookTable’s built-in shortcode works for reference, the code for that is at ‘mybooktable/includes/extras/shortcodes.php’.

~Tim

Hi @ksaari,

Since you’ve purchased the plugin, you should contact our premium support staff by emailing us at [email protected]. This forum is for free users of the plugin buy unfortunately we don’t always have time to provide as much support here as we’d like to.

I’ve verified your key in our database and it should be verifying as correct as long as you’ve entered it correctly. Be sure that you haven’t accidentally added any spaces before or after the key if you copy-pasted it from your email. If you’re sure you’ve copy-pasted it correctly and it is still giving you an error, that probably means that your server is having trouble contact our validation servers to verify that your API key is correct. What hosting provider do you use for hosting your website? You may want to contact them to ask if they could give you more information on problems that could be preventing your server from making outgoing HTTP connections to other servers.

~Tim

Hi @writerspark,

Thanks for letting us know, that seems like a pretty big problem. We use Divi on many of our sites alongside MyBookTable, and we’ve never run into any issues with timeouts, so if you could help us figure out how to reproduce it we would be happy to add a fix to the plugin.

I’m testing out Divi Builder right now and I’m not running into any issues with using it while MyBookTable is active. Could you try disabling all your other plugins to see if with only Divi and MyBookTable active you still see the same behavior? If you can send us a screenshot of the timeout error that would be helpful as well.

Thanks,
~Tim

Hi @writerspark,

Take a look at this image: https://i.imgur.com/7VN22ER.png

You can select which books show up in the Featured Books widget by selecting the book that you want to display from the dropdown menu labeled “Select Books”, then click the “Add” button to add it to the list of books you want to display, then hit the “Save” button to save your changes. If you want to remove a book from the list of books that you want to display click the small blue “X” button next to it’s name and click “Save” to save your changes.

~Tim

Hi @decastell, thanks for your feedback!

This feature is something that we’re planning on implementing to an upcoming update to MyBookProgress, I can’t give an exact estimate on when this will be live but it’s definitely in the works.

Hi @arvyn,

It’s not possible to disable the Genius Link integration on a single service (such as iTunes) without affecting all of the other services, at least not without custom PHP development. If you are able to perform PHP customizations, you could achieve this by adding a filter to the ‘mbt_filter_buybutton_data’ hook to use the basic iTunes url when the ‘store’ value is equal to ‘itunes’. Unfortunately that is the only way to do it though, MyBookTable does not support that kind of conditional application of the Genius Link integration out of the box.

~Tim

Hi @burrowsp,

Based on our feedback from other developers, they generally always create an Admin level account for their clients, and simply instruct them not to change any settings that they do not understand, and this does not cause any problems. But I can see why there might be some circumstances where you might want create them an Author level account instead to ensure this doesn’t happen. We appreciate your feedback on this, and we will consider adding some options to allow use of the MyBookProgress editor page by non-admins.

In the mean time, if you are able to do some custom PHP development for your clients, you can override this functionality and allow non-admins to access the MyBookProgress page by adding the following snippet to a custom theme or plugin:

function custom_mbp_init_admin() {
remove_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘mbp_add_admin_page’);
add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘custom_mbp_add_admin_page’);
}
add_action(‘mbp_init’, ‘custom_mbp_init_admin’, 20);

function custom_mbp_add_admin_page() {
add_menu_page(__(‘MyBookProgress’, ‘mybookprogress’), __(‘MyBookProgress’, ‘mybookprogress’), ‘edit_posts’, ‘mybookprogress’, ‘mbp_do_admin_page’, ‘dashicons-chart-bar’, ‘10.8’);
add_action(‘mbp_admin_page’, ‘mbp_admin_page’, 100);
}

~Tim

Hi @zuperbuu,

MyBookTable allows you to use any currency symbol you want, simply include the currency symbol in the price. So you would enter “￡100.00” as the price instead of just “100.00”.

~Tim

Wow, I totally misread the forum title when I was notified about your post! I handle support requests on the MyBookTable forum as well so I got confused, sorry about that.

You’re absolutely right, the main MyBookProgress progress editor interface is only usable by Admins (technically, it can be used any role with the manage_options permissions, but by default that’s only Admins). We made this decision because the typical use pattern that we designed this plugin was for was an author on their personal website, logging in now and then to post updates on their progress toward their next book; Therefore generally the only person who would want to legitimately access this page would be the owner of the site who would have admin privileges.

We would appreciate your feedback on this, though. Could you help us understand your use case, and how allowing non-admins to access this page would help you? Thanks!

Hi @burrowsp,

MyBookTable Books function like normal WordPress posts in terms of permissions, so that users with the Author or Editor role can create/edit MyBookTable Books just like they could posts.

Really the only part of the plugin that is Administrator-only is the Settings page, which based on feedback from our users is what most people want; The MyBookTable Settings page contains potentially sensitive information like API keys, affiliate settings, etc, that really only the site owner should need access to.

~Tim

Hi @needtakehave,

What other plugins and theme do you have installed? Is this a completely bare default WordPress installation other than MyBookTable? If not, please try temporarily disabling your other plugins and switching to a default WordPress twenty<year> theme and seeing if the problem persists. You may also need to go to Settings > Permalinks and click the “Save Changes” button to refresh your permalinks after doing this.

~Tim

Hi @hsina,

The instructions that you referenced from our Developer Wiki only apply to PHP page templates copied from the “templates” folder in the MyBookTable plugin. The frontend-style.css file is a CSS file located under the “css” folder of the plugin, so it does not apply here.

If you want to override the styles for the MyBookTable pages, you don’t need to copy any files. You can simply create styles in your theme’s CSS files. Usually themes store their CSS in the “styles.css” file in the theme directory, but sometimes they store them elsewhere, it depends on what theme you are using. You just need to find your theme’s CSS files and add customizations to those files, and as long as you use the right CSS selectors (you can use that frontend-styles.css file for reference) they will override the MyBookTable styles.

~Tim

Hi @mdwebseo,

Grid View is a feature that’s provided by the MyBookTable Professional or Developer Upgrades, which you can purchase here.

If you’ve already purchased an upgrade and are having trouble using the Grid View feature, you can get help with configuring your upgrade by contacting our dedicated customer support here.

~Tim