zotpress author search apostrophe problem

Unfortunately I can confirm this is a problem. Tested with an “O’Connor” ref in my library, and with various forms of the apostrophe (O'Connor, O’Connor, O'Connor, O‘Connor, O+Connor, O Connor). All return “No items found”.

Workaround for you might be to use item keys; or perhaps you could add a tag ORegan so that you can use [tags="ORegan"].

Hello,

I had the same problem in Spanish speakers context, most people use 2 surnames, and it’s almost impossible to guess, sometimes we use 1, other times 2, other times with a “-” or without, etc., so it always will be incomplete, since you have to write exactly the surname as is listed in zotero.

So listing authors by the code is not a good option in our case, the “code search” don’t do it fine.

BUT I found the search bar works excellent, with only a part of the surname it will list correctly the references.

So, one possible workarround is to set a searchbar with a pre-determined search. A code that shows me the results of Corredor, in this example.

For example:
[zotpressLib userid=”XXXXXXXX” type=”searchbar” pre-search=”Corredor”]

And loading the page, shows all the results, without the need of writing. and maybe hide the searchbar itself, showing only the results, replacing this way the default references listing by author.

That would be optimal for us and would solve the problem of exact writing of the authors, the apostrophes, dashes, etc.
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I explained that some time ago, let’s hope it would be reconsidered:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searchbar-with-pre-determined-search/

It was more like a feature request. If it is implemented I would update several pages in my site:
https://grupliec.com/

If you see the “qui som” (who we are) there is the whole team, with one team page for person, and the reference list. This list unfortunately is incomplete for the problem I told you.

If the request is accepted and implemented, I would update the code in every person’s page asap.