Mooberry Book Manager Plugin

Mooberry Book Manager is an easy-to-use system for authors to add books to their WordPress websites.

No coding is necessary to use Mooberry Book Manager. Adding books is as easy as filling out a form. Include as much or as little information as you want, including the book cover, links to purchase the book, reviews of the book, an excerpt, and more.

Each book can be linked to as many book store retailers to you want. You can even use your affiliate links!

Mooberry Book Manager will create a page for each book, ensuring a consistent look on all of your pages.

Organize your book into grids with just a few clicks. Grids can include all of your books or a selection of books, and you choose how they are ordered. You can create multiple grids; for example, an “Available Now” page and a “Coming Soon” page. Grids update automatically when you edit or add books. Set it and forget it!

Feature books on your sidebar with four options:

• A random book

• The newest book

• A book that’s coming soon

• A specific book

Mooberry Book Manager works with your chosen theme to provide a consistent look throughout your website.

Requires WordPress 3.8+ and Javascript.

Getting Started with Mooberry Book Manager

After installing and activating Mooberry Book Manager, you’ll now have a Books menu. Use that to add your books to your website.

In order for your books to appear on your website, you need to add a Book Grid and/or a Widget.

To Add a Book Grid:

• Go to Book Grids -> Add New

• Give the Book Grid a name to help you remember what kind of grid it is

• Choose the books, grouping, and sort order

• Save the grid. You will be shown a shortcode. Copy the entire shortcode.

• On any page, blog post, etc. paste the shortcode into the text editor.

• Save your page and view it. Click on any book to see the details of the book.

To Add a Widget:

• Go to Appearance -> Widget

• Drag the Mooberry Book Manager Book Widget to the Widget Area of your choice

• Choose the book to display

• Save the widget and view your website. Click on the book cover to get the details of the book.

Additonal questions?

Check out the documentation and support page.

Now Available

• Custom Fields – Create your own fields and taxonomies for your books

• Advanced Grids – Add paging, filtering, sorting, additional fields, and more selection options to you grids

• Additional Images – Display additional images for a book beyond a single book cover, and add a video trailer.

• Advanced Widgets – Adds two additional sidebar widgets, as well as additional functionality to the existing Book Widget included with Mooberry Book Manager.

• Multi-Author – Makes Mooberry Book Manager work for publishers, authors with multiple pen names, author groups, or for any other website that lists books by more than one author.

• Retail Links Redirect – Magically redirects readers to retailers so you don’t have to update your e-books after publishing.

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Multi-Site Compatibility

• Versions 2.4.4 and earlier work with WordPress Multi-Site if you don’t use Network Activation. If each blog activates Mooberry Book Manager themselves, it should work.

• Versions 3.0 – 3.0.4 do not work with WordPress Multi-Site in any way.

• Versions 3.1 and above work with WordPress Multi-Site both with and without Network Activation.

Caching Plugins Compatibility

Versions 2.4.4 and earlier should work with caching plugins as-is. If your book pages or book grids aren’t refreshing when you add/update a book, you may need to manually clear your cache.

Versions 3.0 – 3.0.4 do not work with W3C Total Cache. An error will be thrown. These versions work okay with WP Super Cache.

Versions 3.1 and above work with both W3C Total Cache and WP Super Cache with the following notes:

• W3C Total Cache – You must turn on Object Caching in W3C Total Cache’s settings for Mooberry Book Manager data to be cached. Book data cache is automatically cleared when a book is updated, added, or deleted so your book pages and grids should stay up-to-date.

• WP Super Cache – When a book is updated, added, or deleted, the cache for the entire site is cleared. Unfortunately, WP Super Cache does not seem to have an option for selectively clearing some cache and not all of it.

• Use another caching plugin? If you are having problems using it with Mooberry Book Manager, please contact us and let us know what plugin you are using and what the issue is.

Translations

• English

• German

• French

• Serbo-Croatian

• Spanish

• Russian

• Italian

• Greek

• Brazilian Portuguese

• Chinese

NOTE:Mooberry Book Manager is translatable.

• Thanks to Kathrin Hamann for providing the German translation!

• Thanks to Cyrille Sanson-Stern for providing the French translation!

• Thanks to Web Hosting Geeks for the Serbo-Croatian translation!

• Thanks to Ana Gomez for the Spanish translation!

• Thanks to Sergey Kryukov for the Russian translation!

• Thanks to Fabrizio Guidicini for the Italian translation!

• Thanks to Eleni Linaki for the Greek translation!

• Thanks to Vinicius Cubas Brand for the Brazilian Portuguese translation!

• Thanks to Jin Gu for the Chinese translation!

1. Upload the entire mooberry-book-manager directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Use the Books menu to add new books.
4. Use the Book Grids menu to add book gridds.
5. Add Widgets.

1. 

   Adding your books to your website is as easy as filling out a form.

2. 

   Mooberry Book Manager creates pages for all of your books, ensuring a consistent design.

3. 

   Manage the books on your website the same way you manage your blog posts and pages.

4. 

   Create custom grids of all your books with just a few clicks. They update automatically when you add a new book.

5. 

   Choose from four types of widgets to feature books on your sidebar.

4.14.15

• Fixed: suppress an error if a book grid is placed not on a page

4.15.14

• Fixed: updated link from _new to _blank

4.15.13

• Fixed bug

4.15.12

• Fixed: bug where retailer buttons/images not working properly when adding retailers

4.15.11

• Fixed: error on installation/activation

4.15.10

• Fixed: bug causing coming soon grids to not return books

4.15.9

• Fixed: update DateTime constructors to not throw deprecated errors in php8

4.15.8

• Fixed: Bug with WP 6.4

4.15.7

• Fixed: Typo

4.15.6

• Fixed: Use selected template for book pages

4.15.5

• Fixed: Google Books changed their link format

4.15.4

• Fixed: bulk edit

4.15.3

• Added: Tell search engines not to index the MBM Tax Grid page

4.15.2

• Added: support for random sorting in Advanced Grids

4.15.1

• Fixed: Added parentheses to prevent casting errors on book grid descriptions

4.15

• Added: Ability to display Book Grid Descriptions (set for Genre, Series, etc.) in book grids when grouped

4.14.16

• Fixed: retro-fix books added since 4.14.13 update

4.14.15

• Fixed: Actually fixed the bug from 4.14.13 for books, not just publishers and book grids

4.14.14

• Fixed: bug introduced in 4.14.13 causing book pages to be blank

4.14.13

• Fixed: some words not being translated
• Updated: language files

4.14.12

• Added: Chinese translation files

4.14.11

• Fixed: Better handling of detecting last line in import file

4.14.10

• Updated: added support for future options

4.14.9

• Updated: added support for future options
• Updated: WP Version

4.14.8

• Updated: support more options for widgets

4.14.7

• Updated: started 8.1 compatibility (more will be needed)

4.14.6

• Updated: book pop ups alway show in lower right corner

4.14.5

• Added: narrator and translator taxonomies

4.14.4.

• Fixed: bug with custom sorting in book grid
• Updated: translation .pot file
• Fixed: duplicate publishers caused by 4.14 update

4.14.3

• Fixed: bug with book grids selecting by publisher
• Fixed: all places of old publisher code
• Fixed: export with UTF-8 formating

4.14.2

• Fixed: bug displaying Publisher: on book when there was no publisher set

4.14.1

• Fixed: bug adding \ into summaries before ‘ and “

4.14

• Updated: Publishers are now CPTs instead of in settings
• Added: Importing and Exporting via CSV
• Added: SKU field to editions

4.13.2

• Updated: Updated CMB2 library

4.13.1

• Fixed: use site’s time zone for figuring out coming soon vs new ribbon
• Fixed: accommodate square book covers in grid with ribbons and popup cards
• Fixed: properly save show title in widget

4.13

• Updated: Fixed widgets for WP 5.8
• Added: ability to add a NEW or COMING SOON ribbon to book covers
• Added: ability to add a popup card with book informaiton in grids and widgets
• Updated: “Editions” changed to “Formats” on book edit screen to be more clear

4.12.1

• Fixed typo

4.12

• Added Retailer Buttons

4.11

• Added Google Books Link field
• Added DOI field in formats

4.10

• Added shortcode to book grid list

4.9.12

• Updated links to documentation and extensions
• Updated quick/bulk edit javascript

4.9.11

• Fixed: Book Grid Preview bug

4.9.10

• Fixed: Book Grid Preview bug

4.9.9

• Fixed: Back to Grid link for tax grids

4.9.8

• Fixed: bug in widget with PHP7+ where array functions using not an array
• Added: grid ID added to book grid div

4.9.7

• Fixed: remove itunes link notice if needed

4.9.6

• Added: necessary code for advanced grids bug fixes

4.9.5

• Fixed: CSS issue

4.9.4

• Fixed: support plain permalinks in grids

4.9.3

• Fixed: bug introduced in 4.9.2

4.9.2

• Fixed: Back to Grid link not working for tax grids
• Fixed: translation/internationalization updated

4.9.1

• Fixed: missing text for translations in .pot file

4.9

• Added: add book summary and additional info to indexes for searchWP and relevanssi

4.8.2

• Added: more prep for custom fields importing/exporting
• Fixed: missing text for translations in .pot file

4.8.1

• Fixed: error while activating
• Added: prepare for custom fields importing

4.8

• Added: Reedsy Discovery link added to books

4.7.6

• Fixed: warning if menu_object isn’t created

4.7.5

• Added translation tag for Back to Grid

4.7.4

• Added: permissions for demo site

4.7.3

• Fixed: code inadvertantly included in 4.7.2

4.7.2

• Fixed: don’t add grid referral to url if back to grid link is set to no

4.7.1

• Fixed: Allow tax grid urls to be updated in database elsewhere

4.7

• Fixed: removed mbdb_{taxonomy} url that was causing duplicate pages
• Fixed: Don’t let /book/ be a 404
• Updated: updated CMB2 to be PHP7+ compatible

4.6.2

• wpseo_opengraph_* filters are not deprecated, so add them back in

4.6.1

• Added option to make Back to Grid link optional

4.6

• Updated for WordPress 5.7
• Added Back to Grid link on books if reached via grid

4.5

• Added: Imprints — add a list of imprints and assign books to an imprint
• Added: Ability to choose whether to hide or show the currency if the default language matches the edition

4.4.6

• Updated URL for EDD licenses

4.4.5

• Added: Bosnian language
• Fixed: only display currency if it doesn’t match the default language

4.4.4

• Added: Bosnian currency
• Added: filter on tax grid headers

4.4.3

• Fixed: bug with default language and currency

4.4.2

• Fixed incomplete copy of CMB2 files

4.4.1

• Fixed capitalization of CMB2 folder

4.4

• Updates for WordPress 5.6 compatibility

4.3.17

• Fixed: remove references to wpseo_opengraph because it’s deprecated

4.3.16

• Fixed: send affiliate code to kindle preview properly

4.3.15

• Fixed: Return to using medium size image for widget. Everything else was causing a problem.

4.3.14

• Fixed: Remove code handing image size in widget that wasn’t supposed to go to production

4.3.13

• Fixed: Errors when importing from Novelist

4.3.12

• Fixed: Handle edge case of medium being too small for widget image size

4.3.11

• Fixed: Don’t use Thumbnail size for widget even if it’s the closest size

4.3.10

• Fixed: Choose best size image for widget, don’t default to medium

4.3.9

• Fixed: WordPress 5.5 compatibility

4.3.8

• Fixed: Update ALL itunes.apple.com links not just 10. (third time’s the charm?)

4.3.7

• Fixed: Adding a book to the selection on a book grid with custom sort no longer resets the custom sort. New books are added to the bottom.

4.3.6

• Fixed: Update ALL itunes.apple.com links not just the first 5. (oops)

4.3.5

• Added: Will update Apple books buy links from itunes.apple.com to books.apple.com

4.3.3

• Fixed: Bug with book grids when grouping by series when other group by selections may have been made previously

4.3.2

• Fixed: checks to verify WP roles exist before adding to them on activation

4.3.1

• Added: Ability to import from Novelist

For revision history of older versions, please see changelog.md