Posted 4 months ago #
I am giving the following shortcode for category having slug "cat1":
[wp-publication-archive categories="cat1"]
However, all the publications under cat1 and cat2 are showing. Same thing is happening for this also :
[wp-publication-archive categories="cat2"]
At both the pages, all publications are showing up and filter is not working.
Please let me know if I am doing something wrong or problem lies somewhere else.
Thanks.
The shortcode you're using looks fine, but without actually seeing your site and the publications I can't provide any further help.
Posted 3 months ago #
I am having exactly the same problem .
I have created some categories and uploaded some PDF files and assigned them to categories.
Using the shortcode like
[wp-publication-archive categories="newreleases"] however gives a list of all files in all categories.
The author filter works as expected but I cannot get the categories filter to work .
I cannot provide a URL as I am testing this on localhost
Posted 3 months ago #
I have solved this... nearly.
If I make the category name exactly the same as the slug then the category filter works.
What alerted me to this was when I echo the mysql queries to the page by setting
define( 'SAVEQUERIES', true );
I looked through the queries for the name of the slug I was using in the shortcode and found this query .
SELECT t.*, tt.* FROM wp_terms AS t INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON t.term_id = tt.term_id WHERE tt.taxonomy = 'category' AND t.name = 'new-releases' LIMIT 1
This was returning no rows because the query is searching the name field of wp-terms and not the slug field.
I have not yet tracked down which part of the plug-in code generates this query but I guess a workaround is to use the category name in the shortcode filter rather than the slug.
The processing for this is in /lb/class.wp-publication-archive.php around line 233. The plugin takes the category names passed in and queries the database to get their IDs. This list of IDs is then passed in a larger query to retrieve publications mapped to those categories.
It's using the core get_cat_ID() function, which takes a category name rather than a category slug. If there was any confusion in my documentation, it's entirely my fault and will be fixed in the future.
Posted 3 months ago #
Thanks for the info Eric. And the useful plugin.
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