OpenBook 3.4.2 - A few tweaks

[John Miedema]

OpenBook 3.4.2 cleans up a few minor items I discovered during my
recent updates. Fixes pertain to COinS, the Open URL resolver
function, and the Open Library links template element. I am sure it
affects very few users. Update when you feel like it. I expect this to
be the last update for some time. Thanks.

[bloos...@gmail.com]

Just wondering about a few styling quirks. 
Personally I'd like to have it styled like this:

Title: (data)

Author: (data)

Publisher: (data)

Date: (data)

ISBN: (data)

While some of above can be done without your input, how do I pull ISBN?

It is a nice plug in and I would like to contribute to OpenLibrary project while using it, but the styling to me falls way short of what it should be. It currently is not a clean output in my opinion. Even if you disagree with my suggestion above, why all fields are banked together in the output by default? Wouldn't it look good or better if they were in separate lines? At least as a built in option?

Thanks.

[John Miedema]

You can style OpenBook in any way you like, using the templates and stylesheet ...

See: https://code.google.com/p/openbook4wordpress/wiki/templateelements

and https://code.google.com/p/openbook4wordpress/wiki/template_samples

[bloos...@gmail.com]

If you read my post, I asked about pulling ISBN number??

Unfortunately I removed this plug in and to make things worse, it leaves some garbage code behind. I had a single post done when plugin was activated, then deactivated the plugin and edited the post to my liking (seemingly removing everything from what the code inserted), but the post persists with the original formatting and data. I'll have to ftp the post and see what is in there that causes it, but I've cleared my browser data several times and the post still appears the same, but nothing in the post edit window I can see. So there is a problem I had not seen coming. Plugin has also been removed to no avail.

Speaking of my earlier request, I do not understand why you do not provide better or cleaner formatting with installation. I'm sorry but for you that should be a simple matter, what show up is very basic and surprisingly so (given an overall quality of WP plugins in general).

 
On Monday, March 12, 2012 9:07:04 PM UTC+1, John Miedema wrote:

[John Miedema]

To pull ISBN ... use the template elements. There are three that are relevant. Likely the third is most useful ...

[OL_ID_ISBN10] ISBN 10 digit

[OL_ID_ISBN13] ISBN 13 digit

[OL_ISBN] 13 digit ISBN if available, else 10 digit ISBN, else blank

Please review this reference ....

https://code.google.com/p/openbook4wordpress/wiki/templateelements

Re: "code left behind". OpenBook works like any editor toolbar. If you use the "Bold" feature on a toolbar, it adds <strong></strong> tags that do no disappear when you remove the toolbar. OpenBook also writes HTML (if you use the default option) or a "shortcode" (if you use that option). You can edit or remove the results as you like.

The default formatting was selected based on user feedback during the development phase. But you are completely free to format things any way you like using the templates.

You seem dissatisfied. Ok. Note that the plugin was an independent development project by me, not a project of the Open Library team (who are wonderful).

Cheers, John