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Hello, my author widgets are suddenly not working. I have added the widgets to the book pages on my author website, tracilslatton.com, and the widgets worked fine for a long time.
Yesterday the IMMORTAL widget wasn't working, then today it is. However, however, the author widgets on other pages aren't working. For example on the FALLEN page, http://tracilslatton.com/page8/index.... it says "Showing 0-0 of 602. No reviews found."
What is going on and how do I fix it? THANKS!!!

Hi Tracy,

I've looked at the widget on the page you're linking to, and it does seem like there's something missing from the code. I know that at least one of our widgets ("add to my books" is getting slightly re-worked this week, but that shouldn't affect the reviews widget. I'm wondering, would you mind visiting the widgets section of your author dashboard and grabbing a fresh review widget code to paste into your site? Let me know if it still gives you trouble once you've got the new code in place.

Just noticed that the Min_rating parameter is not working on the Goodreads review widget.
This is true for both my site that carries the widget (www.dirrogate.com) and the GoodReads page that generates the widget as well.

https://www.goodreads.com/api/reviews...

Stating you want only 4 stars and above also shows 3 star ratings on the example page above.

This used to work perfectly before. Maybe a database call parsing error?
Regards.

Hi Clyde,

I'm playing around with your widget a bit now, and this does indeed seem to be a bug. I'll notify our developers and post here when we've got an update.

Thanks Alex! :)

I've also noticed the Min_rating parameter is NOT working. How can we correct that? Thanks, Traci Slatton

Hi Alex, my widgets suddenly started working, except that the Min_rating parameter doesn't work. I've set it for 3 and the 1 star reviews show also. Is there a fix coming? Thanks much. Traci

Alex wrote: "Hi Tracy,

I've looked at the widget on the page you're linking to, and it does seem like there's something missing from the code. I know that at least one of our widgets ("add to my books" is gett..."

I've also noticed the Min_rating parameter is NOT working. How can we correct that? Thanks, Traci Slatton

Hi Traci,

We do have an open file for this bug (which is affecting a number of authors' widgets), and we hope to have a fix before too long.

Hello everyone,

Our developers have released the fix for this, so your widgets should now be respecting the minimum star ratings. I don't think you'll need to grab fresh widget codes, but if you still see reviews it might be worth a shot. Let me know if it doesn't work!

Works great Alex - Thanks for following this through for us.
Kind Reagards.

Hi everyone I'm brand new to this group and to the whole self publishing thing, so, please, if I ask something that sounds very newbie, forgive me. I was wondering about how I go about creating my own webpage. it seems like its something I have to do, just don't know the best way to go about it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Cris,

You might actually be better served by posting a new thread (look for "new topic" in the top right) in this folder, where your question will be more visible. Best of luck!

I have gone to the authors dashboard and then to the widgets section, but when I tried to get a widget to add, the "add book" widget was not connected to any code. where else can that widget be found?

Hi Kathleen,

You can find the "add to my books" widget here. You'll just need to input the ISBN number or book id (the numbers in the URL for your book page).

thanks, Alex!

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to add one of the basic Goodreads Buttons to my website and I can't seem to as when I click on the buttons nothing happens. Can anyone help? Thanks so much...

Celia, see message 15 above from Alex. That helped me fix the same issue.

Kathleen wrote: "Celia, see message 15 above from Alex. That helped me fix the same issue."

Thank you Kathleen. Always grateful for any help and advice.

Hi Goodreads, I have just put a widget on my website for my latest book, and although it has four Goodreads reviews, only one of them is showing up in the widget, which then says 1-3 of three reviews. Why would that be the case? The URL if you need it is http://www.jesseblackadder.com/books-...

Thanks