BookLinker: a few more tweaks

I’ve received some great feedback from people who have tried BookLinker (big thanks to Jane, Tempest, and Althea!), and I’ve made a few changes and fixes. These are available in the version of the plugin on this site; tomorrow I’ll finalize testing and get them into the WordPress.org plugin repository for wider release.

The fixes and changes are:

1. Fixed a problem generating the native (rel=’BookLinker’) links; these now work as advertised.
2. Added a switch to let you turn the book cover in the popup on or off; when installed/activated, the switch is on by default, but if you’re upgrading in place you’ll have to turn the switch on in the BookLinker settings, or deactivate/reactivate the plugin.
3. Added options for additional styling on the book title and author text in the popup; you can enter your own CSS here, and it will override the CSS in the plugin files. (This would be the preferred approach over changing the CSS in booklinker.css directly, so as to maintain forward compatibility.)

I have another issue I’m trying to work out which affects some themes and not others. It appears to be related to CSS positioning: if a theme uses a lot of position:absolute styles, odd things can happen in spacing and location of elements, particularly sidebar elements. The two elements that make up the BookLinker HTML–the shield and bookLinkerCollection DIVs–are absolutely-positioned to do the nifty modal window thing; I’m looking into alternatives and workarounds for those situations where adding these elements causes other things to break.

As always, thanks very much people who’ve tried it out (75 downloads to date from the Plugin Directory); feedback, especially of the bug-and-feature kind, is greatly appreciated!