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My Bookshelf & openbook
Yesterday I installed the openbook plugin for wordpress on this site. My intentions was to build a “My bookshelf” page similar to what Mats Lindh and Trond Huso have on their sites.
I installed the plugin without any problems but the layout was a bit nasty. I don’t know if that was because of the theme I am running on this site or if the openbook markup was messed up. Anyway I rewrote the html and css for the openbooks template on its configuration page and added some custom css to the site to get it working.
This is my openbook template:
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<li>
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<div class="medium">[OB_COVER_MEDIUM]</div>
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<div class="description">
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<div class="title">[OB_TITLE]</div>
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<div class="meta-1">Written by: [OB_AUTHORS]</div>
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<div class="publisher-year">[OB_PUBLISHER] [OB_PUBLISHYEAR]</div>
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<div class="category">[OB_LINK_WORLDCAT][OB_DOT][OB_READONLINE][OB_DOT][OB_LINK_LIBRARYTHING][OB_DOT][OB_LINK_GOOGLEBOOKS][OB_DOT][OB_LINK_BOOKFINDER]</div>[OB_COINS]
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</div>
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<div class="clearboth"></div>
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</li>
This is the css I added:
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ul.books {
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list-style-type: none;
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}
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ul.books li {
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border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
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margin-bottom: 15px;
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padding-bottom: 15px;
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}
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ul.books li div.medium {
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float:left;
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margin-right: 10px;
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}
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ul.books li div.medium img {
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width:120px;
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}
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ul.books li div.description {
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float: left;
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width: 450px;
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}
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ul.books li div.description div {
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font-size: 11px;
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padding-top: 5px;
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}
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ul.books li div.clearboth {
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clear: both;
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}
At last I added this custom html in the “my bookshelf” page:
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<ul class="books">
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[Open Library Server Error]
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[Open Library Server Error]
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[Open Library Server Error]
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</ul>
You can see the result here: My Bookshelf .
Retweet vs TweetMeme WordPress plugins
I decided earlier this week that I should add a Retweet plugin to my blog; so I googled “Retweet wordpress”, which gave me two good results the Retweet plugin and the TweetMeme plugin. I thought I would install and try both of them before I decided which one I should go for.
Retweet
I installed the Retweet plugin first, this had to be installed, I had to add a custom field to each post and I had to add some PHP code to one of the template files. Once this was done I had to style the link myself.
TweetMeme
The TweetMeme plugin however had to be installed and then it needed to be configured from a separate settings page. Once that was done it was added to all of my posts and it even showed how many retweets each post had.
Conclusion
When I need a plugin for wordpress I really do not want to do more than install it and do some configuration on a settings page. It is way to much hassle to modify template files and adding custom fields to the posts.
Guess which plugin I chose 
New layout, again ;)
I’ve not been completely satisfied with my previous wordpress theme, it worked okay but it took a lot of dead space on the top (approx 300px). I have been looking at other themes for a while now and today I found one I liked a lot, it is called journalist and is created by Lucian E. Marin.
Have a look at his wordpress themes at: http://lucianmarin.com/page/themes/.
BTW: I added a twitter widget on the site to day as well (widget name: Twitter tools).
WordPress 2.6 installed
WordPress 2.6 was released the other day, and today I took the chance on upgrading from 2.5.1. The installation went without trouble, but when I came to log on to the admin panel I got a:
"403 Forbidden"
A quick google search gave me the solution for this problem. Earlier you logged in by typing:
http://someurl.com/wp-admin
In wordpress 2.6 you should use:
http://someurl.com/wp-login.php
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I have not got around to test all the new functionality in wordpress 2.6, but so far the new features seems cool, at least the automatic update of plugins was particularly neat 