A maintenance update for OpenBook has been released to the WordPress server. Version 3.3. Nothing urgent.

[John Miedema]

A maintenance update for OpenBook has been released to the WordPress
server. Version 3.3. Nothing urgent.

More information: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openbook-book-data/

[Terry D]

Hi John

When I updated all my personalized content for the templates was gone. I have an old copy of the plugin folder on my hard drive downloaded 4/29/2011 (long story). How can I get my formats back? is there a specific PHP to re-upload?

I've tried
the entire library folder, openbook.php, and openbook_options.php, all dated 4/29

[John Miedema]

Terry I will investigate this problem and get back to you. The formats
are saved in your local MySQL database. It is possible they were lost,
but let me investigate. John

On May 5, 7:42 am, Terry D <thereading...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John
>
> When I updated all my personalized content for the templates was gone. I
> have an old copy of the plugin folder on my hard drive downloaded 4/29/2011
> (long story). How can I get my formats back? is there a specific PHP to
> re-upload?
>
> I've tried
> the entire library folder, openbook.php, and openbook_options.php, all dated
> 4/29
>

[John Miedema]

Hi Terry, I took a first look at the possibility that the OpenBook
update might have caused your problem. I'd like to ask a question
before I go any further.

The OpenBook settings page has a checkbox at the bottom. It used to be
called "Save Templates". For the update I only changed the label of
this checkbox to "Save Settings" because that's how it was working.
There were no code changes to this function.

Is it possible that you had this checkbox unchecked when you did the
update? That would cause the problem.

I unchecked this checkbox in my blog, then deactivated the plugin just
the way it would happen for an update. When I reactivated my plugin,
my custom templates were gone. This is what should happen, given the
checkbox setting. When unchecked all settings go back to default,
including the checkbox itself (which is checked by default). If I
leave the checkbox checked, deactivate, reactivate, my custom
templates are saved.

If you it unchecked (not the default) before the update, your
templates were set back to the defaults and cannot be retrieved
because they have been wiped from the MySQL database. Sorry.

Let me know. Thanks, John

[Terry D]

Hi John,

I think I've got it ... we were migrating to a new URL and host. The original XML only brought over content from 2005 to 2007 and when I FTP'd the plug-ins from the old host it brought "baselines" (if that makes sense).

We FINALLY got an .sql file from the old host to work (long story) yesterday and it looks like all is fine now. I will go back and double-check the save settings box.

Thanks for your help.

Terry