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I just finished writing a wordpress widget that grabs a list of books from GoodReads (book readers social network) and I’d like to share it with whoever needs it If you want to use this widget you have to use Wordpress and of course have a GoodReads account.�

Features

• Choose any shelf that you want to display
• There are 16 sorting options
• Choose one of the 3 book cover sizes
• Show or hide book title
• Set the length of book title
• Show or hide author name, isbn, user rating, and average rating
• You can also change the display labels for�author name, isbn, user rating, and average rating

Download

GoodShelf (1585)

Installation

To install it, simply unzip the download file and move/copy�goodshelf.php�to�/wp-content/plugins�folder of wordpress. In the admin page, go to Plugin and activate the GoodShelf plugin.�After that, you need to configure to get it working. Go to Design or Presentation and select GoodShelf. There is a list of options (mentioned in Features) that you can choose from.�The final step is go to Widget to add GoodShelf widget to your sidebar.�

Customization

If you like to customize the widget, below is a list of CSS classes and id associated with the widget that you can style:

• Book list: .goodshelf_ul
• Book item: .goodshelf_li
• Book cover: .goodshelf_cover
• Book description: .goodshelf_text
• Profile link: #profile_link

Sometimes I feel like I never get satisfied with anything regarding the look of my blog. I’m already sick of my last wordpress theme. At the very start of moving to wordpress, I had a very simple theme. Then I decided that I wanted to add more graphics and stuff to it… but after achieving it now I want something simpler hehe. Furthermore I’ve been spending too much time on the look of the blog instead of the content. Even worse, I don’t have much time for doing something else like reading a book, learning more programming stuff or hanging out with friends etc. So from now on, I have decided that I’m going to leave this theme here for quite a long time. Hope you all like the new theme as much as the last one or even more hehe.

Here’s another new theme of mine. It’s still in testing stage. Feedback will be appreciated. View in full click here.

Cheers.

One of my main interests is photograph and my blog itself used to be so much of a photography blog. Even though my blog is currently not so dedicated to photography, I still want some flexible way to display my photos -posted on flickr- on this blog. I have developed a (generic) widget to display my photos already but it can only display photos in one size (75px by 75px). Now I wanted a widget that can display flickr photos in any size I like, for instance 100px by 50px. Read the rest of this entry →

This is the first theme I spent most time on so I hope it’s worth the spending.