zookatron

Hi @youareprof,

We don’t currently have any plans to add more advanced search functionality to MyBookTable itself, though I’ll take note of your request, we might consider it in the future.

In the mean time, I would recommend checking out the Relevanssi plugin, it’s great for customizing your WordPress search functionality in any way you wish to make it more suitable for your particular application.

~Tim

Hi @amatheson,

Thanks so much for letting us know about this! We just released an hotfix that should resolve this issue.

We copied the same code we were using for the “About the Book” section and thought it would work the same for the “Book Blurb” section, but apparently WordPress does some extra processing to the book_excerpt field (which is where we store the book blurb) that messes with tag encoding. We definitely should have tested that out a bit more before putting it into the last release though, definitely an oversight on our part. Thanks for helping us out.

~Tim

Oh huh. It must think our test site is a spam site because it doesn’t have real content ?? The direct URL is https://www.cloudforesthosting.com/.

As you can see on one of our test sites here https://goo.gl/RDbsZn we have the popups plugin running just fine with the buy button shadow box unaffected.

I’d love to help with this, but unfortunately there’s just not much I can do to diagnose what might be causing this without being able to reproduce it so I can investigate. You might try different popup settings or changing the content of your popup to see if that might be causing it. Or if possible you might try to run some tests with different combinations of themes and plugins on a non-production site to try to figure out what is going wrong on your client’s site.

~Tim

Hi @milkboy31,

I just ran some tests with the Popups plugin and MyBookTable, and I’m not able to reproduce the issue you’re seeing. I have the Popups plugin activated and have the popup showing up fine, and the MyBookTable Shadow Box Buy Buttons are also displaying without issue.

Are you sure that the Popups plugin is the culprit of the issue you’re seeing? You might try switching to one of the default WordPress twentyxxxxx themes to be sure it’s not caused by your theme, or try disabling other plugins to see if it’s an interaction with another plugin.

~Tim

Thanks for reporting this, I’ll take a look and see if it’s something we can fix on our end or if we need to ask them to resolve it.

~Tim

Hi Henry,

I’ve responded to the ticket you submitted to our support system as well, so you can reply there if you have further questions.

For everyone else that may benefit from this answer being here as well:

This behaviour of MyBookTable archives being treated as pages is caused by MyBookTable’s “Compatability Mode”. This is turned on by default because most themes are unable to display MyBookTable pages correctly unless we make use of their generic “page” template and insert our content there, which requires telling the theme that it is just a “page”, rather than an archive.

You can turn off “Compatability Mode” by going to the MyBookTable > Settings entry on your WordPress Admin Menu, and unchecking the Compatability Mode box. This may cause display issues with your theme because it does not know how to properly render the MyBookTable pages. You can fix these issues manually by following the instructions on our wiki about fixing theme problems, which will allow you to have both properly displaying pages and the use of plugins that require archive identification such as the Custom Sidebar plugin.

~Tim

Hi @fznshaikh,

The “Book Sorting” feature I described will change the order of the books on the frontend. The ordering that you choose in the “Sort Books” interface is the order that all your users will see your books in on your website.

If what you’re looking for is a system that allows your users to choose how the books are sorted for themselves via a frontend interface, that feature is not available in MyBookTable.

~Tim

Hi @sheriziya,

That sounds like another viable way of doing what you want to do, it’s hard to say if it would be easier than the other alternatives though. You could add this extra content to the MyBookTable Author pages via the “mbt_get_book_archive_description” hook, but figuring out all the different actions you need to attach to this hook to get all the content you want, as well as adding the content editor interfaces to the WordPress backend is not an easy task, you would need to study the appropriate reference documentation such as the WordPress Codex for more information. Unfortunately I am limited in how much I would be able to advise you on this process, if you have specific questions on how to interface with the MyBookTable plugin that you are not able to answer with the information in our Developer Wiki, I will do my best to provide that information, but unfortunately we simply don’t have the resources to provide more general help with customizations you may need for your website.

~Tim

Hi @sheriziya,

This happens because, similar to the Simple Author Box plugin that we discussed in a different thread, the plugins/theme that creates this section is doing this by overriding the WordPress ‘the_content’ filter to add the author box to your posts. In MyBookTable the “main content” of the book is designated as the “About the Author” section, which is what we’ve had most requested from our users so that “sharing link” plugins and such will show their content there. We realize this may not be the perfect solution for everyone, but unfortunately this is not something that’s easy to make into a simple settings option, what is designated as the “main content” determines many things about how data is saved in the WordPress database and how the Book page is rendered, so it’s not easy to have this change at the click of a button.

It is however possible to change this behavior via custom PHP development. All you would need to do is determine which actions the plugins are attaching to the “the_content” filter, unattach them from the MyBookTable books pages, and attach them to the “mbt_after_single_book” hook so they show up at the end of the page, or wherever you would like them to show up.

If this is not something you are able to do, you may simply want to hide these sections on MyBookTable pages via CSS like you did for the “About the Author” section, using code like this:

.mbt-book-section-content .sfsiaftrpstwpr {
    display: none;
}

.mbt-book-section-content .jp-relatedposts {
    display: none;
}

~Tim

Hi again @henrybaum, sorry I haven’t had a chance to respond to this until now.

Yes, if you want to put the template directory somewhere other than your theme you could use a modified version of that code snippet you referenced. You would just need to replace the “get_template_directory()” function with thatever folder your templates will be stored in. I’m not sure where exactly you would want to put these templates however, as themes and plugins are the primary places where templates on your site reside. It would probably be easiest to make a custom plugin or child theme that includes that snippet and contains the template files, but if you are not familiar with PHP development that may not be a trivial task.

We’ve tried very hard to make MyBookTable as compatible as possible with as many themes as we can, but unfortunately it’s simply impossible to the fully compatible with all the different WordPress themes out there right out of the box. We realize that this makes it challenging for nontechnical users to always make their websites exactly how they want it without any sort of custom development, but unfortunately that’s the reality of working with relatively complex plugins like MyBookTable. We’re in the process of adding better integrations with some more popular themes like the Divi theme to give people better options for choosing themes that work well with MyBookTable, but unfortunately that’s not available yet.

~Tim

Hi @fznshaikh,

You can sort your books in a variety of ways by using the “Book Sorting” feature that you can find by going to MyBookTable > Books from your WordPress admin menu and clicking the “Sort Books” link just under the page title. You can see what this looks like in the screenshot here: https://imgur.com/a/HxY47.

Note that this is a one-time sorting and if you add new books they may not be sorted in the same way, but you can always re-sort the books after adding new books.

~Tim

Hi @brvsn,

We do already have French translations for most of the text in MyBookTable, but it’s only available if you select just “French” as the language on your WordPress General Settings page, It won’t work if you select Belgian French or Canadian French, which is probably the issue you are running into. It is the same for Italian.

If you’re sure you using the base French/Italian translation and you have found a place that there are untranslated strings, please let us know exactly where the erroneous text shows up (a link to the page in question or a screenshot is ideal) as well as the correct text that should be there and we will try to get it fixed in the next update to MyBookTable.

~Tim

Hi @screenprotector,

You can buy MyBookTable Pro by going to mybooktable.com and navigating to the upgrades page. Once you have purchased it you will receive a zip file that contains the MyBookTable Pro Upgrade plugin and your License Key.

You can install the Pro Upgrade plugin by going to your WordPress Dashboard clicking Plugins -> Add New -> Upload. Then select “choose file”, select the zip file you downloaded, and click “install now”. Then click “Activate” under the the plugin on the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

After you install the Upgrade plugin you will need to put your licence key into the MyBookTable Settings page, there should be directions on how to do that which show up once you install the Upgrade plugin. Note that both the free version of MyBookTable and the Pro version must be running at once in order for the upgrade to function properly.

~Tim

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by zookatron.

Unfortunately it’s not possible to change the author links that are automatically displayed in the book details to links to your own pages without custom development. You can add your own link to the book overview, but the one that shows up in the book details is generated by the Authors taxonomy. If you are able to have some custom development done however, it wouldn’t be too difficult to change this by overriding the ‘mbt_get_book_authors_list’ filter.

~Tim