OpenBook WordPress Plugin 3.1 has been released. New to OpenBook? The plugin allows you to easily insert a book cover image, title, author, and publisher from Open Library. It also creates links to popular books sites.Users have complete control over the display through templates. It creates COinS for integration with applications like the reference manager, Zotero. Librarians can configure an OpenURL resolver for integration with book records in their library catalogue.
The plugin is available from the WordPress server: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openbook-book-data/ Old hack with OpenBook? This version solves the performance problems of the past. It uses a new API from Open Library, a server-side books API that fetches all the book data in one call. If that's not fast enough, you can use the new HTML option to embed the data in your post. This version also introduces an OpenBook button on the WordPress visual editor. Click the button to open a form where you can enter book numbers of various types, specify OpenBook options, and preview the appearance before inserting it in your post. No need to remember the shortcode syntax anymore. This version also adds two more templates to the Settings page. If you already have the plugin installed, WordPress will notify you of the available update. Big thanks to Anand Chitipothu of Open Library for his work on the new API. Thanks also to the beta testers, especially Terry D. from The Reading Tub (http://childrens-literacy.com/), whose thorough testing uncovered bugs before the public release. More information about OpenBook can be found at the wiki: http://code.google.com/p/openbook4wordpress/. _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
