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Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:56:57 +0000

[...] books. So, all my new plugin does is create a hard-coded display of unread books. It uses hooks provided by the plugin author to do so. My plugin is not flexible at all, but it gets the job done nicely. Plus, I created my [...]

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Wordpress ‘Now Reading’ Plugin « Planet Mediocrity — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:10:53 +0000

[...] per Rob’s excellent documentation, the problem is in the following section of the default Now Reading templates:

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Now Reading plugin — Techie-writer.com — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:42:27 +0000

[...] to add: Woohoo! Managed to get it fixed in Firefox. The plugin creator’s help page on the subject wasn’t really all that helpful, but playing around with the code finally did the trick — trying to [...]

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[...] bastel ich gerade an dem Now Reading-Plugin. Es klappt noch nicht so ganz, aber bisher hab ich das alles ja hinbekommen! [...]

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domesticatedman.com » Reading is fundamental. — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:06:35 +0000

[...] its associated widgets and third-party plugins, makes projects like this very bloggable. I added a Now Reading widget (thanks to Rob Miller, a widget maker) to the left sidebar. That will show you what book [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:28:41 +0000

Liana, page up :)

alakhnor, feel free to update the .po file and send it in.

By: Liana

Liana — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:49:31 +0000

Rob,

I'm not very knowledgeable about these things but I am trainable. :-) Here's the situation. My library page comes up with all the books aligned against the left border with no padding. It looks a little strange. What code should I add to the library.php file in order to get some padding on the left side of the page?

Thanks in advance.

By: alakhnor

alakhnor — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:23:07 +0000

I'm having trouble with accents. It seems the UTF-8 encoding is not kept inside NR templates (I'm getting the square thing).

Also, there are few translations missing (and few code changes) I've been through. Should I send you the file with them?

By: Lee Benson

Lee Benson — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:24:22 +0000

Ok, Thanks Rob - I thought there might be mention buried somewhere in those comments, by didn't see a resolution from a brief skim.

I'll change the permalinks back to the default and see if that can be worked.

It's a shame WP don't have some kind of "exclusion word" feature - so that URLs prefixed with it would be ignored and disallowed as far as category names.

Cheers!

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:48:55 +0000

Nope, I'm afraid not. There's been discussion on this before: it'll be buried in the archives somewhere.

Essentially, WordPress has absolutely no way of knowing that when you enter /library/ you're wanting the library and not a category called library: there exists no way to manually override this, as far as I know and as far as I can tell from reading the WP_Rewrite code. I'll have another look, I guess, but I can't make any promises—sorry.

Incidentally, date-based permalinks aren't bad for SEO and adhere to W3C guidelines on what makes a good URL, since they're "hackable" :)

By: Lee Benson

Lee Benson — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:45:44 +0000

As an addition to my last comment...

I noticed that if I use the "date and name based" permalink option (/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/), the links WORK.

I really don't like that, though. Not great for SEO and they're pretty long-winded URLs.

Is there any way to make it work with /%category%/%postname%/ ?

By: Lee Benson

Lee Benson — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:37:08 +0000

I love the plugin – only trouble is, with my WP 2.1 installation, I’m not able to get any of the permalinks working!

Check out http://leebenson.com/library/, and you’ll see what I mean. That’s a 404 page. The book links are down the line.

All other links on my site are working fine (the permalink structure is /%category%/%postname%/)

I’ve tried sifting through your PHP files to see if there’s something not hooking right, but the add_filter() function seems to be doing its job.

I just can’t figure out what’s up? :-/

By: NeXuS

NeXuS — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:00:43 +0000

Hi Rob, I just want to let you know that there is a problem with the current implementation of MySQL max_key_length.

Such parameter is fixed to 1000 bytes and is not user definable (it's marked as TODO).

Depending on the character set one is using for the databse the INDEX 'permalink' may exceed the maximum key length.

To be sure to have a correct fit I had to reduce the size of all author and title field from VARCHAR(200) to VARCHAR(100).

You've done a great job, thanks. A soon as I have a couple free days I'll try to contribute by adding searches on italian sites (I'm italian).

By: Tolumi

Tolumi — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:07:07 +0000

Hey Rob, thanks for the plugin, you did an awesome job! I just ran into a little problem though. When searching for books in the write section using amazon.co.uk, I run into the following error “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 12582912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 61310 bytes) in /hermes/web06/b2031/pow.tcherokee/htdocs/wrdpress/wp-content/plugins/now-reading/xml/classes/doc.inc.php on line 601″But when searching using amazon.com, it works just fine. Any ideas why this might happen?

By: matt

matt — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:17:11 +0000

Rob, first THANK YOU! This plugin is friggin’ great! Only one little tiny niggle… when I add a book that I’m planning to read, on its single page the Started: and Finished: dates are the (I guess) default of November 30 1999.

How can I go about making it say, like your library does, “Haven’t started yet”? I’m not really a php head but I can follow instructions pretty well :-)