WordPress:BookCoverPlugin

From IdeA thinKING

Contents 1 Overview 2 Requirements 3 Download 4 Installation 5 Usage 6 Screenshots 7 Known issues 8 Contact 9 License 10 Version history 11 Reference

Overview

This plugin display the book cover image from ISBN. It has 3 pre-configured book store whose images are used. The first is for Korean book (89), the second for Japan (4), and the others. You can change or add new book store URI in the plugin configuration screen. And you can reset to default setting at anytime.

This plugin includes sidebar widget for book cover display, also.

Requirements

• Wordpress 2.0 or higher.
• Compatible with all web servers including Apache and IIS.

Download

• WordPress Plugins download site
• Latest version 1.2
  • Download

Installation

To install the plugin:

1. Unzip the plugin archive.
2. Upload the directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

Usage

• First of all, you should know the book's ISBN. Usually, it is on the back of the book near by bar-code.
• Then add the bookcover markup to your post like the following.
  • [bookcover:1932394613]
  • [bookcover:1932394613(Ajax In Action)]
• It is converted to <img class="bookcover" ... /> markup. So you can control the style in your css file.

Screenshots

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Known issues

1. There are ISBNs that ended with 'x' not a number. In that cases, you should take care of the case sensitivity of the 'x', because some book store use the lower case 'x' for their image file name, and some the upper case. So, try one, and if it fail try another.
2. There is no validation check on plugin configuration page. So you can submit with empty country code and empty URI. It makes default URI for other country code null.

Contact

You can leave comments or questions at BookCoverPlugin test page. (The old test page is here.)

License

Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Wongoo Lee

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Version history

1. 1.2 August 27 2007
   • Include sidebar widget for book cover display.
2. 1.1 May 23 2006
   • Change bookcover syntax to support rich editor mode from <bookcover></bookcover> to [bookcover].
   • Use book title for alt attribute of img if available.
3. 1.0 May 20 2006
   • Initial release

Reference

• Plugin API
• PHP String Functions
• Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible)
• Saving Plugin Data to the Database

iwongu 13:50, 27 August 2007 (KST)