In order to complete my migration from 1.3 to 1.4 version I needed to replace the books control I had with a widget that do the same.
After a fast Google search I found no widget with such functionality.
Armed with lots of confidence I decided to create a new widget, the BookShelf widget, to meet my exact needs:
- display the book thumbnail image
- show the book name and book author name
The previous book control has been gently made available by John Dyer, and I simply didn’t worry about the layout, I used the old one with minor changes on binding.
This widget is obviously editable since I want to manage the books in the shelf, so I create an edit interface where its very simple to add, edit and remove books.
As a final note, I can simply reaffirm that work with widgets is very simple and straight forward.
Download, try it, and naturally let me now if it meet your needs too.
Hi Nuno.
Great widget..just what I was looking for.
I have just one sugestion: Replace the Float:left with display:inline, because when using float the element doesn’t take space, so in some themes (like mine) where the container has a background color it gets weird.
Thanks for the great widget! Going to add it to my installation next week.
I’ve also posted about it on the BlogEngine Forums
http://www.blogengineforum.net/yaf_topics14_Widgets.aspx
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[b]Great extension!!!![/b] One thing I thought would be a good idea is to allow [i]13[/i] or [i]10[/i] digit ISBN’s. Either convert the [i]13[/i] digits to [i]10[/i] if possible (some can’t) or find a way to get [i]13[/i] digit ISBN pictures and convert [i]10[/i] digit ISBN’s to [i]13[/i] digit ISBN’s.
Just starting up on my blog and loving the engine.
Thank you for sharing bookshelf widget. I’ll try it now.
This is a great widget. I wonder if it can be used for music CDs too? I’m thinking it would work. Man, this is a nice one. Thanks.
Nice article…Thanks for sharing
Hey ,
I love this widget! I’ve just installed it and works great! Thanks for the entertainment I’ve bookmarked your site. I’ll check back every so often to see whats happening with you..
Regards,
Linda
BookShelf really nice for BE and easy to use…
Thank you for sharing with us the exact needs if we decided to create a new widget, the BookShelf widget.
Just wanna say thank you for the information that you have been shared with us webmaster! Hope that this will not be the last article that I could be read written by you. Thanks again webmaster!
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What a brilliant widget! I’ll be putting it on at least half of my websites! Thanks for providing this resource free of charge, students like myself appreciate it!
Nice widget i liked it
i want to modify this one inorder to customize it to upload my book pictures insted of third party url how we can modify this widet in order to upload our own books pics and entering autor details and displaying it
Hi all
Nice widget thanks
i want to create a widget where i want show a pics of books and enter the details of book like author title etc and display it in front page
showing the book pics like thumbnail
it should have an option to upload images of pics of books
if i click on book pics it should display the details of book how can i go abt it
pls help me
thanks
i have just heard about booshelf widget
thanks
Thats a cool widget.. looks very promising to me.
Hi there, I see you’re using Blog Engine quite successfully here.
I run a little leadership books website and was wondering about whether it’s worth ‘upgrading’ to BlogEngine from wordpress or not, so I wondered whether you could give your opinion on whether you consider it an upgrade if its worth it for my leadership books site?
How to make profits from Amazon?
I enjoy reading your topic and i will this site again if i have time again.,If I will have time because this days I am so busy .,to many work to be done
Great tool Nuno. I had to switch from trying BlogEngine to WP on my main blog due to the fact that there aren’t as many plug n play tools and themes out there. It’s nice to see that BE is gaining in support and popularity with useful tools like this by developers like you. I will def use this. Thanks!
It is a helpful tool Nuno. I hope you will explain more further so that many will know about this.
Regards
Poppers
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Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful and beneficial to your readers.
How do you control the size and styling of the book thumbnail image from within the widget.
thx for writing it.
Very inspiration article, thanks for sharing
from my experience wordpress its more better and easy than blog engine .net
i never used blog engine before. it seems interesting.
I agree with you about the editor. It is not great but it does not require a third party assembly. Look at our page you will notice that it links to a tinymce usercontrol. Simply create a user control that uses your html/text editor and update the htmleditor.ascx to point to your new html/text editor user control.
I don’t like widgets, they always seem to slow everything down for me.
Excellent. Keep up the good work!!!
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Nice job. I really like the layout of this blog. Which theme are you using?
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