Robert Heller

Also: what are you using for a web browser?

Are you sure the other person has the *same* problem or a different one. Because of the way the capabilities and roles are set up, it is possible to get a first impression that the plugin is not working — eg the the various admin pages appear missing.

*No one* else has reported the problem you have had. *I* am unable to reproduce it.

Question: what theme are you using? Do you have any other plugins installed and activated? It is possible (?) that there is a conflict with either the theme and/or another plugin. I am not sure how that would result in the error you are getting, but it might be a starting point.

Did you ever manage to find out what happened? Noone else has reported this problem.

It does not happen with Firefox (17.0.6).

I have tweaked the short codes and the CSS files a little — you should update to version 3.2.7.6.

The CSS code you should be tweaking is in css/front.css. It is better not to actually edit this file, but instead arange to include additional CSS code (many themes allow for this).

The code relating to the images is:

.weblib-item-thumb {
   padding: 0px 4px;
}
.weblib-item-thumb img {
  min-width: 48px;
  min-height: 72px;
}

Also this setting might have some effect:

.weblib-item-info {
  width: 85%;
}

why crome do not show thumbnail when “inlinemoreinfo” is false when firefox do?

I am not totally sure what this means. I don’t have Chrome on my system (Google does not support RHEL/CentOS, which is the O/S I use). Are you still have this problem?

Getting an associate tag is pretty painless — it is free, as is getting a AWS account — they only charge for some services (eg using their cloud backup and compute services). Merely accessing their product database services is free. Normally, this is meant for ‘associates’ (affilates) to grab advertising information for products Amazon sells (eg books and other stuff), and when Amazon makes a sale from an associate’s (affilate’s) website, Amazon pays out a percentage of the sale to the associate. By letting people access to Amazon’s product database in this way, Amazon expects to realize added income.

The alternitive is just open a separate browser window / tab and ‘manually’ copy and paste from Amazon’s normal product pages. You can do things either way — the Web Librarian plugin will still work without the AWS & associate tag options, you just won’t have the Amazon lookup feature available.

Amazon’s product DB is easier to get data from than doing something like grabing MARC records from the Library of Congress (something I also looked at).

My only thoughts are that there is something fishy going on between Excel and MS-Windows and character sets. *I* never had any problems on my Linux system creating CSV files that ‘just worked’, but I was not using a spreadsheet program, instead I was using a text filtering program (coded in Tcl) to filter from one ASCII format to another ASCII format. Or else I was using a plain text editor. I don’t use MS-Windows for my desktop system (and never have).

I think that somewhere along the way, UTF-8 might be involved and possibly something odd about newlines or item quoting (eg missing quote marks or improper quote marks), but I don’t really know. It very likely also depends on the locale setting on the *server* WordPress is running on vs the locale setting on the desktop computer the CSV file was created on. Most often, a pure, 7-bit ASCII file will have no problems, ever. I know that sometimes that is not a viable option, since book titles, descriptions, and author names might possibly require UTF-8 characters. It is important *never* to use anything but 7-bit ASCII characters for the bar code: eg only the digits 0-9, and ASCII letters A-Z and a-z — note: most bar code scanners only do digits (0-9), so if you are in fact using a bar code scanner, bar codes can only be digit strings. Note: ASCII is generally a proper subset of most UTF-8 character sets, esp. for Latin character sets.

It is probably a error in the CSV file. I have uploaded larger CSV files without problems. If the CSV file has a bad character, the upload process could get confused. Please read the other threads relating to CSV files for details on what to look for.