Recommended Books

Recommended Books is a plugin to WordPress, most-used blogging application and a state-of-the-art publishing platform. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means it is absolutely free.

 

Description

Recommended Books is higly configurable widget to WordPress sidebar. It displays up to 10 books with liks to Eruditor.com bookshop and optionaly with jacket images, prices in dollars or pounds and/or discounts. Eruditor.com has no affiliation program but the books are with about 35% discount there. So you will get no money for the displaying the list but your visitor can buy book you recommend for extra low price.

 

Installation

1. Download the plugin, unzip the file and upload recommendedbooks folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

2. Be sure that cache.txt is writeable for your web server (the file which comes with the plugin should be writable to all).

3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

4. Go to Presentations -> Widgets menu and drag and drop Recommended Books to your sidebar

5. Go to Options -> Recommended Books and fill in ISBNs of books you recommend

6. Change layout on the same page using CSS if you want

7. That's it :)

 

Old WordPress templates

What to do if your template is not widget ready? Simply place following line to appropriate place in your template (probably in sidebar.php).

<?php if(function_exists('recommendedbooks')) recommendedbooks(); ?>

 

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