Claire Ryan

Buy This Book is no longer under active development. A new plugin called the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/author-showcase/" rel="ugc">Author Showcase</a> 
is available with extended and upgraded functionality. This plugin should still work on the latest version of WordPress, and support is still available, but it won’t have any 
new features added. 

Buy This Book is a WordPress plugin designed for authors. It was created to combat three problems:
<ul>
<li>Many authors use things like the Amazon Affiliate widget to display their books, which is stripped out of webpages by adblockers. This results in their books never being seen by a significant chunk of users, as adblockers are the most popular plugins for Chrome and Firefox.</li>
<li>If authors want to just add their books and a link to Amazon, etc, they’re obliged to know some HTML and it’s something of a pain in the ass.</li>
<li>Neither option is ideal when books can be available on multiple websites.</li>
</ul>
Buy This Book takes cover images and up to seven websites, and displays them on the sidebar with a slideout menu.
It supports:
<ul>
<li>Amazon</li>
<li>Kobo</li>
<li>Barnes & Noble</li>
<li>Smashwords</li>
<li>Lulu</li>
<li>iBooks</li>
<li>One custom option</li>
</ul>
This version of the plugin can also be modified to use other services.
Suggestions for new functionality welcome! Please contact me here:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/claireryanauthor" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a> 
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/@aetherlev" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> 
<a href="http://www.raynfall.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Website</a>

Buy This Book

[No longer under development! See the Author Showcase plugin for similar, extended functionality.] Buy This Book allows authors to display their books …

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Displays a wish list in the form of a grid of wanted items (for example CD, DVD or book covers). Allowing site visitors to remove items from the list once they have bought them.
The plugin comes with the Mr Men wish list by default, adding your own lists can be done by copying the file wish-pics/lists/MrMen.php and changing the content to reflect the items you want to display.
The plugin currently relies upon my other plugin <a href="http://www.houseindorset.co.uk/plugins/amazon-link" rel="nofollow ugc">Amazon Link</a> being installed to enable the user to generate their own wishlist based upon Amazon searches. 
Note these user generated wish lists will link to images on Amazon so may fail to work over time, or the Amazon site is down.
Each wishlist has the following settings:
<ul>
<li>Wishlist name & ID – Used to reference the wishlist, ID must be used when inserting the list</li>
<li>Wishlist – Which template list to use (defaults to MrMen)</li>
<li>Thumbnail Width – The width of images presented in the wishlist array</li>
<li>Thumbnail Height – The height of images presented in the wishlist array</li>
<li>Array width – The total maximum width of the wishlist array</li>
<li>Public Access – Allow anyone the ability to check items off the list</li>
<li>Access Level – If not public, then only allow users of this type the ability to check items off the list</li>
</ul>
If the Amazon Link plugin is installed it is possible to Create new lists based on items for sale on the Amazon Site. Simply select ‘Create List’ from the Admin page. 
Then search for items by ‘Title/Author’, perform a Search and select items to add to the list by clicking on the check boxes. 
The list will accumulate until you leave this screen, so multiple searches can be performed. Then select ‘Create’ to show an example of how the finished list will be presented. At this point you can click ‘Back to Search Results’ to change the list, or select ‘Save’ to add the list to the database.
Warning! returning to the admin settings screen without saving the list will lose the content of the search!
To create a new wishlist based on an old one or update an exist one, select ‘Edit List’ from the admin page.

Wish Pics

Displays a wish list in the form of a grid of wanted items (for example CD, DVD or book covers).

Buy This Book vs Wish Pics