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BookCover plugin test page

27 Aug, 2007  bookcover, plugin, wordpress blogging, programming

22 Comments so far »

1. Andrea said

   am September 26 2007 @ 18:48

   Do you know an italian service?

   I try to ‘grab’ image from some other service but there is a little problem in image size.

   Country code:88
   http://image.anobii.com/anobi/image_item.php?type=1&isbn=${isbn}

   Country code:9788
   http://giotto.ibs.it/cop/copt13.asp?f=${isbn}

2. iwongu said

   am September 27 2007 @ 13:35

   Hi, Andrea.
   I can’t connect the URLs you supplied. What’s your problem in image size?

3. Andrea said

   am October 4 2007 @ 8:05

   Image book “A” is bigger (or smaller) than image book “B”.
   A good idea? manage the image size!

4. Andrea said

   am October 4 2007 @ 8:14

   Try:

   http://image.anobii.com/anobi/image_item.php?type=3&isbn=8831793721
   http://image.anobii.com/anobi/image_item.php?type=1&isbn=8831793721

   http://giotto.ibs.it/cop/copt13.asp?f=9788831793728
   http://giotto.ibs.it/cop/copj13.asp?f=9788831793728

5. iwongu said

   am October 4 2007 @ 15:01

   There is no option for image size in this plugin, yet.
   But, I decide to add this feature soon. This feature will use ‘width’ and ‘height’ attribute in ‘img’ tag. So the result image might not be clean enough.

   Thanks for using this plugin.

6. holly said

   am October 10 2007 @ 0:26

   Is support coming for the current standard 13 digit ISBNs?

7. iwongu said

   am October 10 2007 @ 8:26

   The current version can be used with 13 digits ISBNs. It’s sure that you must register new URLs for 13 digit ISBN in the configuration page. (But I could not find the URL of Amazon for 13 digit ISBN. Anyone who found this?)

8. Maly said

   am October 24 2007 @ 9:22

   [ bookcover:0609608002]

9. Ben said

   am January 3 2008 @ 2:29

   Liking the plugin, but one feature request and/or possible hack tip request from a non PHP guy.

   I’d like to link these images to amazon, a library catalog, etc. Can the output be modified to a linkable image with an OpenURL search string?

10. iwongu said

    am January 4 2008 @ 17:08

    (I don’t know what the OpenURL is.)

    Currently, you can’t link these images to some book store sites like amazon. It’s not impossible, but it needs modifications of php code.

    Sorry.

11. Brian said

    am January 19 2008 @ 16:53

    It’s very easy to create a link from the image. Here’s what I added to the widget configuration:

    [bookcover:0060875410]

    [bookcover:0062517767]

12. Brian said

    am January 19 2008 @ 16:56

    Sorry about the previous comment. The site took my code and added the link to the bookcover text. Basically, I just add and href before the [bookcover:xxxxxxxxxx]. Let’s try this again:

    ‘[bookcover:0060875410]‘

13. Brian said

    am January 19 2008 @ 16:57

    a href=”http://www.amazon.com/FairTax-Book-Neal-Boortz/dp/0060875410/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200728037&sr=8-5″>[bookcover:0060875410]

14. BookCover_Wordpress plugin said

    am January 22 2008 @ 19:57

    [...] BookCover plugin test page [...]

15. emma said

    am April 15 2008 @ 1:11

    Hi,
    I know it’s simple but I Can’t get the plugin to work. My country is 2, and this is the book I want to add
    http://www.amazon.fr/Code-Source-William-Gibson/dp/2846261563/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_a?ie=UTF8&qid=1208179992&sr=8-1.

    What shoud i put in the configurations window ?

    This is the code in my sidebar

    [bookcover:2846261563]

    Any chance of helping me ?

16. iwongu said

    am April 15 2008 @ 5:20

    Hi emma,
    I tested your book isdn and found that it just worked with the default setting of this plugin. See my sidebar. The amazon url handled your country code also.

    FYI, I copied my sidebar widget content in here.

    <ul>
    <li>[bookcover:1565922840]
    <li>[bookcover:2846261563]
    </ul>

17. emma said

    am April 15 2008 @ 18:09

    Thanks iwongu. The problem was in fact that I wasn’t using the sidebar widget

18. Rachel said

    am May 26 2008 @ 12:08

    If I understand, the code work only inside a widget and not if I put it on my sidebar? I try to put it inside my sidebar and it’s not working…

19. Fanmeel said

    am August 12 2009 @ 7:28

    Does it still work in wordpress 2.8.3?

20. Fanmeel said

    am August 12 2009 @ 7:57

    Yes, it works! But unfortunatly I’m only able to find covers from Amazon (see my site).

    My country code is 90, en I want to get pictures from http://www.bps4m.nl/images/ean/big/${isbn}.jpg, like http://www.bps4m.nl/images/ean/big/9789052616261.jpg. I think it has something to do with the ISBN-13. What do I have to add to the code to get it running? Thanks!

21. Fanmeel said

    am August 12 2009 @ 18:21

    Problem solved. I just inserted the webadres http://www.bps4m.nl/images/ean/big/${isbn}.jpg en didn’t insert text for my countrycode. Now, my covers won’t be found at Amazons, but in the Dutch database.

22. Jenny Schrader said

    am February 25 2010 @ 5:32

    I just wanted to thank you for such an excellent plugin. I tried some others and they didn’t work nearly as easily or as well. And thanks, too, to Brian for the link to Amazon suggestions. It works perfectly!

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