"Plugins" Category

One of the main parts of this blog is the Now Reading Reloaded plugin for managing the books I’m reading and have read. The plugin is great providing library, page, author, tag and search views. It also has a review/rating system where you can rate a book and write a review. However it does not provide a template to display favourites; like a “top 10″ list of highest-rated books. So I thought I’d write one. It was a bit of a challenge figuring out the URL structure, but once I did that, the template implementation was reasonably simple; the functions I wanted were already implemented in the plugin just not exposed in the provided templates.

This post is a summary of how I implemented the favourites page, including the URL structure required for Now Reading, how I added the new page functionality to the plugin code, and how I implemented the new template page…
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When I first joined LinkedIn I got excited about their book/library plugin… until my colleagues got annoyed with constant updates when I finished a book and started another. Then I found the Now Reading Reloaded plugin for WordPress. With the recent theme upgrade I had a few challenges updating the CSS and Page Templates used by NRR to suit my updated theme. This post summarises some of the things I found…
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When redesigning my theme, I wanted to include a standard set of “share” links (or “social links” or “story tools”) for the posts and pages, featuring the usual print, email, rss and social-bookmarking links. Many people use the Sociable and ShareThis plugins for all of these, but I wanted to have a structure with separate links for each.

This article is a walk-through of creating two styles of “share” links, an inline set of links and a box (that also contains my tags).
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