Fri 10 Aug 2007
Further to this post, I saw a natty plugin featuring in the sidebar of a nice blog which I thought I could make use of.
It’s called Now Reading, and basically shows what book you are currently reading (hence the name…), and allows you to link through to the book in Amazon to retrieve the book cover, etc. You can also add various other information about when you started and finished reading it, as well as doing a little review.
Sounded good to me so I downloaded and activated it - and it looked terrible!
Have now got it looking okay in the sidebar, but the pages which contain the entire library of books I’ve read, and the pages to show the information about a particular book aren’t working so well.
I wish I knew more about this to try and fix it, but I don’t so it’s going to be pretty much trial and error but hopefully I’ll get there sometime soon - apologies in the meantime if the site looks terrible in places!
August 10th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Yeah, now reading’s detail pages are a total pig to get working…
a lot depends on your theme - I ended up hacking around the template files the plugin uses to match the basic content of page.php template file for my wordpress theme.
If you don’t get anywhere with it, I’ve had a bit of experience hacking around the templates it uses, so drop me a line and I’ll see if I can help (if I’ve got time)
(and thanks for the compliment!)
August 10th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Thanks Tom, I’m currently trying a bit of cutting and pasting to see if I can get those pages to look a bit more like the rest of the site.
But I may take you up on your offer if I don’t get anywhere (or make it worse!).
August 10th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Whisper it quietly, but it seems to be working…
August 10th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Looks okay to me…