Mooberry Book Manager User Manual
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1. Leave this blank if your book is not part of a series Retailer Links o Retailer Links are used if you are selling your book online on your site or other sites Youcan add multiple retailer links for your book one per retailer For each retailer link you add you must provide the following information o The Retailer See Retailers Settings Page to learn how to change the content of the Retailer list o Linkis the direct link for your book in the specified retailer Must be a valid URL The http will be added if you don t include it o To adda new retailer link click on the Add Retail Link button See 1 3 12 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual Release Notes about a known bug with adding retail links To delete a retailer link click on the Remove Retailer Link button under the Retailer Link box o You can click on the triangle in the gray box that says Retailer Link 1 Retailer Link 2 etc to toggle the display of the individual retailer link You can select a file to be used as your book cover using the same process as Wordpress s Media Library Youcan upload a file from your computer or choose one from your Media Library Youcan delete the cover image by clicking the red circle in the upper left corner of the image preview After you re satisfied with your information click Publish or Update if you re editing not adding a new book Your Book Details Page will be live on your site imme2. Links are used when you are linking to website for readers to purchase your book A single book most likely won t have both Download Links and Retailer Links unless your book is listed for free at retailers and you are also allowing readers to download the ebooks directly from your website 26
3. Mooberry Book Manager User Manual Version 1 0 Mooberry Dreams http www mooberrydreams com bookmanager mooberrydreams com Mooberry Book Manager User Manual Table of Contents About Mooberry Book Manager 1 1 Features 1 2 Requirements 1 3 Release Notes 2 Getting Started with Mooberry Book Manager 2 Installing Mooberry Book Manager 3 Books 3 1 Adding Books 3 2 Editing BODKS ette ree ette tee 13 3 3 Deleting Books ____________________________________ _ 13 34 Viewing Books ll 14 3 5 Genres Series and Tags ___________________________________ __ 14 4 ae Mice tc eg te Mee ae Mon ac og te Boe 1 l6 41 About Book oot 16 4 2 Setting Upa BOOK aridi l6 4 3 Special Book Grids on t e t ads 19 5 Sidebar Widgets _________________________________________________ __ 21 Sal Description of Widgets co cce s 21 5 2 RCI d DAD D estates DA eiae 21 6 BRENNEN o rh arh rD irde eha Iae a ae Aia PE aE ADe A IN LA 23 B RETAINS Sen 24 a a e e E 24 7 Frequently Asked Questions kk 26 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual About Mooberry Book Manager 1 1 Features O Add books to your website with an easy form no coding required O Consistent display on every book page O Books can be listed on website in multiple
4. Review 1 Review 2 etc to toggle the display of the individual review o Download Links o Download links are used if you are allowing readers to download your book for free Youcan add multiple download links for your book one per format For each download link you add you must provide the following information o The Format See Formats Setting Page to learn how to change the content of the Format list o Linkis the direct link for downloading your book in the specified format Must be a valid URL The http will be added if you don t include it This can be from your own site or another one o To adda new download link click on the Add Download Link button See 1 3 10 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual Release Notes about a known bug with adding download links o To delete a review click on the Remove Download Link button under the Link box o You click on the triangle in the gray box that says Download Link 1 Download Link 2 etc to toggle the display of the individual download link Series Series work same way tags do in Posts and Pages You can add multiple series to each book Multiple books can be in each series Series are optional A book does not have to belong to a series You don t need to create a Standalone series Book Manager automatically detects books not assigned to a series as a Standalone o New Series can be added to Book Manager simply by ad
5. configurations with no coding required O Uses your theme s formatting so looks and feels consistent with the rest of the website 1 2 Requirements In order to use Mooberry Book Manager the following are required Wordpress org installation NOT wordpress com o Wordpress version 3 8 or higher Mooberry Book Manager has been tested up to Wordpress version 4 1 1 Javascript is required for Mooberry Book Manager to work properly on the admin screens It is not required for the end user browsing the author s website A modern web browser is required for the Javascript to work properly Basically IE 9 or higher or almost any version of Chrome Firefox or Safari Mooberry Book Manager User Manual 1 3 Release Notes Version 1 0 3 31 2015 o Initial Release o KNOWN BUG When adding a new Retailer Format or Review sometimes the fields pre fill with data from the previous one This can be over written with the new item and saved without problem This is a known bug and we re working on a fix Mooberry Book Manager User Manual 2 Getting Started with Mooberry Book Manager 2 Installing Mooberry Book Manager Mooberry Book Manager is available in the Wordpress plugin repository which means installing it is easy 1 From the Wordpress Admin Dashboard in the Plugins menu click Add New 2 Search for Mooberry Book Manager 3 Click Install Now 4 Click Activate Plugin If you choose to install Mooberry Boo
6. diately and automatically added to any 4 Book Grids that apply to it If you aren t ready for your book to be live you can save it as a draft by changing the Status just like any other Wordpress post or page 3 2 Editing Books To edit any book go to the Books page and click on a book s title or the Edit link under the title 3 3 Deleting Books To delete any book click on the red Trash link under the title To delete multiple books select them with the checkboxes on the left Choose Move to Trash from the Bulk Actions list and click Apply Deleted books are not gone forever They are moved to the Trash instead To see the books in the Trash click on the Trash link From here books can be deleted permanently or restored by clicking the appropriate link under the book title Books can be deleted permanently or restored in bulk by using the checkboxes on the left and the 13 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual Bulk Actions list 3 4 Viewing Books Now that you ve added books in the admin side of Wordpress how do you view them on your website Until you ve added a Book Grid or a Widget you can only view a book by going to its Book Details Page directly You can find the link for the Book Detail Page on the Edit Add page Right under the title you ll see Permalink and a URL That s the direct URL to your book Copy and paste it into your browser s URL window and look at your pretty book
7. ding them here on the book page or you can use the Series page see 3 5 Genres Series and Tags REVIEWS Review 1 eBOOKDETAILS SUBTITLE PUBLISHER PUBLISHER WEBSITE Book Details o Everything in this section is optional o Subtitle o If your book has a subtitle enter it here o Publisher o Name of your book s publishing company o Publisher Website o Link to your book s publishing company s website o Must be a valid URL The http will be added if you don t include it 11 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual Release Date RELEASE DATE GOODREADS LINK RETAILERLINKS OF PAGES SERIESORDER COVERIMAGE gt Release Date The date your book was will be published o Future dates are allowed Book Manager automatically recognizes future release dates as books that are coming soon o Must be a valid date in the format mm dd yyyy or yyyy mm dd o Date can be typed in or selected from the calendar pop up Goodreads Link o If your book is on Goodreads you can add the link to it here o Must be a valid URL that starts with www goodreads com The http will be added if you don t include it Number of Pages o Thelength of your book o Must be a number greater than or equal to 1 Series Order o If your book is part of a series this tells Mooberry Book Manager what order the books go in o Must be a number greater than or equal to 0 o Can have a decimal i e 2 5
8. e built in Book Grids you have to get the slug for the series genre or tag To find the slug click on the Books menu and choose the corresponding page Tags Genres or Series In the list find the slug for the item you want The format for the URL for these built in Book Grids is o Tag http your site com tag slug Series http your site com series slug o Genre http your side com genre slug So if you had a Contemporary genre with a slug of contemporary the URL would be http your site com genre contemporary NOTE There is one case where these special URLs will not work if the Permalinks settings for your Wordpress site are set to Default In this case you will not be able to use the URLs as formatted above Links that do work will be used on your Book Details Page but they will look more like this http your site com mbdb_tax_grid Test amp the taxonomy mbdb_genre amp th 19 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual e term contemporary amp post type mbdb tax grid 20 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual 5 Sidebar Widgets 5 1 Description of Widgets Widgets are another way to display your books on your website The Mooberry Book Manager Widget displays a single book cover and links to its Book Details Page The book chosen is determined by the type of Widget you add There are four types of widgets o Random Book Chooses a book at random every time the page is loaded o Newest B
9. enu called Books A few images will be uploaded as well a new widget added and a new item added to the Settings menu f Mooberry Dreams Demo Site Dashboard Plugins Add New jetpack Plugin activated Posts Inactive 2 Media Pages Comments Feedback Appearance Plugins nstalled Plugins Jetpack by WordPress com etpack ettings Deactivate Users Tools Mooberry Book Manager Deactivate Edit Settings WP Super Cache The first thing to do with Mooberry Book Manager is to add a book See 3 Descriptic ul bly tr t world to protect sleep To get started 1 Click the Activate link to the left of this description Version 3 0 4 By Au t det I JIL t nthi t j t ml D n tl gh Version 1 6 By Matt Mullemwe eta B e pow he V L elf ho j rmally only ailable t Version 3 3 By Automattic View deta E 1 i Y auth t r j bsite Version 1 0 By Mooberry Dreams ery fast caching plugin for Word Version 1 4 2 By Automattic View details Description Books Mooberry Book Manager User Manual 3 Books Mooberry Book Manager revolves around the Books menu that was added to the admin menu in the left sidebar It works very similarly to the way Posts and Pages work as far as adding books deleting books and editing books Books 3 1 Adding Books The first thing you ll want to do is add a book Open the Books menu and click Add New Book
10. etailers 6 2 Formats Mooberry Dreams Book Manager Settings NOTI Retailers Formats lt TABS Retailer amazon com 7 23 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual You must save your changes on each individual tab If you switch tabs without saving your changes will be lost 6 1 Retailers The Retailers tab is used to add the retailers who sell your books Several come pre installed with Mooberry Book Manager but you can add more if needed The names on this tab will be used to populate the Retailers drop down list on the Add Edit Book page in the Retail Links section Retailer 5 To add anew retailer click on the Add Retailer button See 1 3 Release Notes about a known bug with adding retailers o To delete a retailer click on the Remove Retailer button under the Retailer box o Youcan click on the triangle in the gray box that says Retailer 1 Retailer 2 etc to toggle the display of the individual retailer The Retailer is required o The Logo Image is optional o The Logo Image can be uploaded from your computer or you can choose an image already available in your Wordpress Media Library o Youcan select a file using the same process as Wordpress s Media Library 6 2 Formats 24 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual The Formats tab is used if you offer your books for free download Several formats come pre installed with Mooberry Book Manager but you can add more if needed The names
11. gorized group Series Series with the name of the series as the heading Books not in a series will be in the Standalones group 4 If you group by Genre you can also group by Series within the Genre groups 5 If you aren t grouping by series choose an order for the books Books grouped by series will be ordered by their Series Order Publication Date oldest Order of publication oldest to newest irst Publication Date newest Order of publication newest to oldest irst Title A Z Alphabetical by title Title Z A Reverse alphabetical by title 6 Set the height in pixels for the book covers The default is 200 but you can tweak it 18 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual based on your preference and theme The minimum height allowed is 50 7 Set the number of books to display horizontally in the Grid The default is 3 but you can tweak it based on your cover size and theme The minimum allowed is 1 Save the Page as you normally would If you have Wordpress set up to add new Pages to your menu automatically you should be all set Otherwise you can link to your page however you normally do 4 3 Special Book Grids There are three kinds of Book Grids that are built in with Mooberry Book Manager and you don t need to create a Page for o Books from one series ordered by the series ordinal o Books from one genre ordered by title o Books from one tag ordered by title To access thes
12. just like you re adding a new Post or Page in Wordpress You ll be brought to a screen that looks very similar to the edit Posts Page screen but asking for book specific information data is optional except the Title with the following exceptions o If you add a review you must fill the Review Text and at least one other review field Reviewer Name Review URL or Review Website o If you add a download link you must fill in both the Format and the Link o If you add a purchase link you must fill in both the Retailer and the Link NOTE The order of the sections may differ on your screen than these screenshots because Wordpress allows the user to move items Mooberry Book Manager User Manual nm Edit Book Audacious TITLE Publish SUMMARY de TAGS GENRES Excerpt EXCERPT Here is the information you can enter about your books o Summary This is the description of your book usually the text you d find on the back of a physical book or on a retailer s website such as Amazon o Youcan use the toolbar to format this text the same way you would with a Post or a Page in Wordpress o Excerpt This is an excerpt from the text of your book o Youcan use the toolbar to format this text the same way you would with a Post or a Page in Wordpress o Tags exactly the same as tags for Posts and Pages in Wordpress You could use tags to specify categories or characteristics of your book that aren
13. k Manager manually you can download the zip file from https wordpress org plugins mooberry book manager and install it with these steps 1 Download the zip file Do not extract it 2 From the Wordpress Admin Dashboard in the Plugins menu click Add New 3 Atthe top right next to Add Plugins click Upload Plugin Mooberry Book Manager User Manual New Dashboard Add Plugin Upload Plugin Jetpack Posts a Media Plugins extend and expand the functionality of WordPress You may automatically install plugins from the WordPress Plugin Directory or upload a plugin ir Pages bbPress Theme Check Comments Feedback ra s Aen all the t Appearance we Plugins t Last Updated 2 days ag Compatible with c e s 9x amp 02 Last Updated 1 month ag Compatible with your ve 4 Direct Wordpress to the zip file and upload it Mooberry Dreams Demo Site 2 P New Dashboard Add Plugins Browse Posts C Media Pages Feedback gt Appearance Plugins 5 Once the plugin is installed activate it Mooberry Dreams Demo Site 2 P New Installing Plugin from uploaded file mooberry book manager zip Jetpack Jnpacking the package Posts nstalling the plugin E a Plugin installed successfully Media gt y Comments Mooberry Book Manager User Manual Once Mooberry Book Manager is activated you ll see a new item in the m
14. on this tab will be used to populate the Formats drop down list on the Add Edit Book page in the Download Links section Format 3 MBO Book Manager Settings words o To add a new format click on the Add Format button See 1 3 Release Notes about a known bug with adding formats o delete a format click on the Remove Format button under the Format box o You can click on the triangle in the gray box that says Format 1 Format 2 etc to toggle the display of the individual format The Format Name is required The Format Image is optional The Format Image can be uploaded from your computer or you can choose an image already available in your Wordpress Media Library You can select a file using the same process as Wordpress s Media Library 25 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual 7 Frequently Asked Questions 1 Will Mooberry Book Manager work with my theme Mooberry Book Manager has been designed to be theme independent and should work for most themes However as there are infinite possibilities when developing themes and little required standardization so some themes may not work as expected with the plugin If Mooberry Book Manager isn t working for your theme e mail us at bookmanager mooberrydreams com and we ll see if we can help 2 What s the difference between Download Links and Retailer Links Download Links should be used when you are allowing readers to download the book for free Retailer
15. ook o Chooses the book with the latest publication date that is not later than the current day o If more than one book meets that criteria one of them is chosen randomly o Future Book o Choose a book at random with a publication date after the current day or a blank publication date o Specific Book o Youchoose a book from the drop down 5 2 Adding a Widget To set up a Mooberry Book Manager Widget drag the Mooberry Book Manager Widget into the sidebar area you want 21 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual Widgets Manage in Customizer Available Widgets Main Sidebar Archives Blog Subscriptions Qetpack ooberry Book Manager Book Wid get Custom Menu Display WordPress Posts Jetpack Facebook Like Box Jetpack Gravatar Profile Qetpack The settings 1 Widget Title o Can be left blank 2 Which Book to Choose See the description of widget types in the previous section If you chose Specific Book a new drop down appears so you can choose the book 3 Check whether the book title should be printed below the cover or not 4 Enter the width of the book cover image in pixels o Minimum allowed 50 Multiple widgets can be added to the sidebar 22 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual 6 The Settings Open the Settings menu and click on Book Manager to access the settings for Mooberry Book Manager y Comments Appearance M Plugins 8 Users Tools Settings Meta Slider There are two tabs o 6 1 R
16. page You can use that direct URL anywhere you want to link to your book Or you can add your book to your site s menu through the Menu section in Wordpress but the real magic comes in when you set up Book Grids and Widgets And multiple books too of course Audacious Order Now amazon cor Published Publisher Number of Pages Genres Tags 3 5 Genres Series and Tags 14 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual Each book can be added to multiple genres series and tags or none at all All three of these work exactly the same way Wordpress tags do on blog posts Actually book tags aren t like Wordpress tags they are Wordpress tags Just like Wordpress tags new genres series and tags can be created on the Add Edit Book page when they are added to the book or you can explicitly set them up ona separate page To access this page click on Genres Series or Tags in the Books menu This page works exactly the same was as Wordpress tags so if you re not sure about how it works you can check the Wordpress documentation Genres Popular Genres Contemporary New Adult Add New Genre 15 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual 4 Book Grids 4 1 About Book Grids Book Grids make it easy to display multiple books on your page There are several options for choosing which books to display in a Grid as well as how to sort them You can also choose the size of the book covers and the number of books in each ro
17. t genres o For example strong heroine gay for you friend to lovers Youcan also use tags for content warnings such as dubious consent o Genres o Genres work the same way tags do in Posts and Pages You can add multiple genres to each book Multiple books can be in each genre Genres are optional A book does not have to belong to a genre New Genres can be added to Book Manager simply by adding them here on the book page or you can use the Genres page see 3 5 Genres Series and Tags 07 0 0 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual EXCERPT SERIES Download Links ean DOWNLOADLINKS Download Link 1 Format Bie REVIEWS Review 1 o Reviews Youcan add multiple reviews for your book For each review you must provide the following information o The Review text itself o One or more of the other fields Reviewer Name Review URL or Review Website o Reviewer Name is the name or username of the person who reviewed your book o Review URL is the URL where the review can be found Must be a valid URL The http will be added if you don t include it o Review Website is the name of the website the review 15 on ie Goodreads Amazon etc o To adda new review click on the Add Review button See 1 3 Release Notes about a known bug with adding reviews o To delete a review click on the Remove Review button under the Review text box o You can click on the triangle in the gray box that says
18. w My Books 4 2 Setting up a Book Grid To set up a Book Grid add a new page using the Pages menu or edit an existing one just like you normally would in Wordpress Scroll down on the Add Edit Page screen and you ll find the Book Grid Settings section You can add a Book Grid to any page on 16 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual your website Any text you enter into the text box will be displayed before the Book Grid Book Grid Settings Display Books on This Page Yes Books to Display All Y Group Books By Series v Order By Publication Date oldestfirst v Book Cover Height 200 Number of Books Across 3 Here s how to add a Book Grid 1 Choose Yes for Display Books on This Page 2 Next choose which books you want to display in the Grid s these books to display in the Grid AII the books you ve saved into Mooberry Book Manager AII Published the books with a publication date of the current day or earlier 17 Mooberry Book Manager User Manual All the books with a publication date after the current day or with no publication date All the book in the genre s you select Select Series All the books in the series one or more you select ou select the specific book s to display 3 The books can be grouped into categories with a heading for each group Genre Genre with the name of the genre as the heading Books without a genre specified will be in the Uncate
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