Good Reads Books
by David Sword 4 (4 reviews)

Good Reads Books

Showcase currently reading and recently read Goodreads books on your website.

Good Reads Books ranks #13,646 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, a 4/5 rating from 4 reviews, and was last updated Dec 7, 2017. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.9 (Current: 7.1.2)
v1.2 Current Version v1.2
Updated 8 years ago Last Update on 07 Dec, 2017
Refreshed 13 hours ago Last Refreshed on
Top 25% by installs No update in over a year
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#13,646
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Active Installs
100+
-45.4%
KW Avg Position
10
0.3 worse
Downloads
5.5K
+2 today
Support Resolved
0%
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Rating
80%
Review 4 out of 5
4 (4 reviews)

Next Milestone 200

Total Progress 45%
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Rank Changes

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Growth +0.0%
Peak 0,000,000

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Reviews & Ratings

4.0
4 reviews
Overall 80%
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3 (75%)
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Plugin Details

Version
1.2
Last Updated
Dec 07, 2017
Requires WP
4.0+
Tested Up To
4.9
PHP Version
N/A
Author
David Sword

Support & Rating

Rating
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4
Reviews
4
Support Threads
0
Resolved
0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who use Goodreads and want to display their reading activity on their website. It solves the problem of manually sharing book updates by automatically showing currently reading and recently read books from Goodreads shelves.

  • Displays currently reading books
  • Displays recently read books
  • Fully responsive layout
  • Configurable books per row
  • Daily shelf updates
  • Colour or Black & White covers
  • Shortcode display ([goodreads])

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Good Reads Books

The books are currently being displayed at a 1:1.55 ratio. Not all book covers are this ratio, so minor clipping may occur as the image is set to fill the space the plugin provides for it.
CURL is a library of PHP that is used to access data from other websites. For this plugin, we need to access Goodreads API and retrieve the data for your shelves. Without CURL this plugin cannot work.
The displaying of the books is lateral, allocating as many slots as selected in the admin settings page. This allocation shrinks equally as the container width lowers, and the covers ratios are maintained. If you've selected a high number of books, this may result in the thumbnails looking too small on smaller phones. This is by design, but I'm open to changing it in future version if the request is there. In the mean time, try reducing your "Show x Total Books" numbers.
Due to licensing, sadly some image covers are not available through Goodreads API. If a books image is blank, you can define it in the settings page under "Exceptions" with your own cover. To get the ID of the book, hover the cover of the book with your cursor on your website.
The fine fellows at Goodreads in their API agreement state that no one can't use "Goodreads" in an app title. Yet "Good Reads" is fine.. legal stuff is so silly sometimes.

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