Title: List format
Last modified: February 24, 2021
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# List format
* [notion9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notion9/)
* (@notion9)
* [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-format-2/)
* Hello. I’m just trying out your plugin. I’m unable to get the listings to display
like I see on your plugin page. Also, there’s no proper documentation on how
to achieve this.
* What I’m looking for is:
* Title (Hyperlinked) – Author (Hyperlinked) – Year – Download (Hyperlinked). I
would like to customize this further. But, I’ll start here. Also, is there a
way I can setup some kind of sorting and a search option?
* Any help is much appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you.
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* Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
* (@frier)
* [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-format-2/#post-14099254)
* Hi [@notion9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notion9/) !
* Thank you for the documentation suggestion, I’ll work on it on the future updates!
As for your publication list customization, go to “Settings”->”Books and Papers”
page and scroll to “Custom Publication Lists” section. There you can change how
the list elements are displayed using html tags and its’ attributes. For your
example above you can use the following: `[title] - [authors] - [year] - Download` To sort the list
you can use “Sort Order” setting in the “Custom Publication Lists” section and
sort option in the shortcode: `[publications subj=all sort=title]` for example.
Unfortunately, there’s no search option, though you can filter the output og
publication list using other options like “auth”,”subj”,”year”,”tag”, etc.
* If there is anything else I can help with, feel free to ask.
* Thread Starter [notion9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notion9/)
* (@notion9)
* [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-format-2/#post-14106144)
* Thanks for your reply [@frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/). Much
appreciated. I followed your advice and set everything up.
* Here’s the link where I’ve setup the test: [https://cibworld.org/publications-test/](https://cibworld.org/publications-test/)
* Things which I would like to know.
* 1. I’m still not seeing any sort options. Can we do a manual sort on the page
or is it an automatic pre-selected sort?
2. Do I have to individually add URL
links to each work when it’s added? What does the “link” variable do? The link
does not go anywhere. 3. I assumed that the “download” link would be the URL
of the uploaded file. Is this not the case?
* I really like this plugin and would love to use it and be happy to pay for a
premium version. But It’s not quiet there for me yet. Please let me know about
the questions above.
* Thanks,
* Nikil
* Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
* (@frier)
* [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-format-2/#post-14106359)
* Hi [@notion9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notion9/) !
* Thank you for your response!
* 1. If you’re asking about some dynamic sort feature on the website page, unfortunately,
there is no such thing implemented in the plugin. All the publication sorting
happens before posting the list on the site. That way you can only choose some
options to determine the original order of the items in the list, but it can’t
be changed later by the website user.
2. The “link” in the example above is
a placeholder. Sorry, I didn’t make it clear. All the variables use these brackets–[].
So you have to change this placeholder to the URL you want. For example, `[title]` will create a link to the WordPress
site. `[title]` will create a link to specific URL set for
that publication. In case, there was no URLs during .bib or DOI import, or if
you added publication manually, you will have to fill the URL field manually.
3. If you use the “file” field to manually upload the file to your site, you
can use it as an URL to the file (It seems I misunderstood you previously and
provided the wrong example). Change the download link part in customization list
to look like this: `Download` If you changed
the download folder in the settings, you’ll have to change it as well.
* I hope this will help you. In any case, feel free to ask anything!
* Thread Starter [notion9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notion9/)
* (@notion9)
* [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-format-2/#post-14109183)
* Hey [@frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/),
* Thanks for this. Really appreciate all your help with this.
* It’s a great plugin. I would recommend that you add a search feature to the plugin
or connect it to the WP search.
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