Mark
(@codeispoetry)
ZotPress exclusively links to existing Zotero libraries. It doesn’t provide a way to build a library in WordPress, and WordPress itself is also not really made for this purpose (though I am sure you could find plugins that would allow you to replicate this kind of functionality).
If you already have a record database, and you can export that in one of the many formats Zotero can import, then you could build a Zotero library and expose that in WordPress using ZotPress; but that is the only kind of scenario where you’d use ZotPress.
Thank you for your help. We already have a database (Zotero group) and we thought of Zotpress because it allows us to search the page created from names, markers, keywords etc., which something like BibBase would not allow if I understood what I read?
tags rather than markers 🙂
Mark
(@codeispoetry)
Since you wrote “We would like to put our institutional record database on the institution’s wordpress rather than on Zotero so that everything can be found in one place.” I assumed you wanted to stop using Zotero, in which case ZotPress would also be out.
But if you want to use ZotPress to display the existing Zotero (group) library, yes, that is possible. Once you install ZotPress and follow the instructions to link your Zotero account or group, you should be able to follow the ZotPress FAQ or help pages to display a bibliography. What you have tried so far?
Sorry if my message wasn’t clear, we would like to keep our Zotero base to feed and maintain it, but make it available to the public via another channel. The institution has a wordpress site on which our virtual exhibitions, blog posts, news etc., so going this way would have been convenient.
I tried Zotpress, and it works. My problem is the following: I can only add my records to a page one by one, and I have 10,000 records to import. So I wanted to know if from the Zotpress insert that is displayed on the right side of each page on wordpress (or elsewhere!), it was possible to “call” several records at once.
Thank you!
Mark
(@codeispoetry)
With >10k items to import you may run into limitations (e.g., I believe the Zotero API throttles requests so it may take a while before your whole library is imported and cached). This size may push the limits of ZotPress in various ways. But besides that, it sounds like you are trying to insert the references one by one as citations instead of displaying the library (or a collection) itself directly.
Check out the “Help” page on your installation of Zotpress for more information and a full listing of parameters for all shortcodes. You need the ‘standalone library’ shortcodes, not the in-text citations.
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Mark.
Thank you very much for your response! I think we found it. Thanks again for your help!
