mybooktable

my site went into “critical failure” because of an update that won’t go through and this has happened multiple times. I have had no recourse to a workaround on this and if there is a bug fix i haven’t been able to find one. in the meantime my site has lost a whole lot of functionality – when it is up at all. Not impressed.

I am a user of this plugin for years. I also paid for the professional upgrade. Unfortunately the plugin isn’t updated that often, and with all the Wordpress developments it can use an upgrade again. For example, php 8 is still not supported. My whole website is based on this plugin, so switching would be a nightmare, but I consider it.

I am an author of over a dozen books. I use the professional MyBookTable plugin, and find it worth the price. Overall I find it to be incredibly useful and an invaluable part of my website. I like the ability to add my book descriptions easily to individual blog posts, and to aggregate a list of online retailers for my book. There are two areas where the plugin could be improved in the future: A) Make the book cover the post’s automatic featured image. Currently, it defaults to the site’s default image instead. Under Screen Options there is no way to add a featured image to a book, so the post thumbnail is not the book cover. I’ve worked around this for social media by installing Social Rocket for the time being. B) For accessibility reasons I use a tablet to design my site, and currently, adding book links to other retailers must be done on a desktop or laptop computer, and trying to do so on a tablet, the field where you paste your book’s link is greyed out, so I always have to switch gears and use a computer.

Love this plugin as it is the only one of its kind that actually works for my sites. Will it be updated soon to be able to continue without problems running on my site. It has not been updated in a while.

I purchased the pro version to quickly populate my books database using the ISBN lookup feature. It does not work. If I have to copy and paste all the books data individually, I may as well create a template that will be better designed than the ones offered by default. The Amazon affiliate program somewhat facilitates this process but the advertised ISBN lookup feature would have been a real treat. Support promises tickets will be answered quickly however, some of them have been open for months. Will try to get a refund directly from my credit card company.

Selling books online never was so easy!