AndyWarren

Can you turn on debugging in the wp-config file, or send me an FTP login via my email?

Ok, so I think I have this figured out, but I’m not sure how you want me to proceed with it. After looking into it, the two pages you are using the shortcodes on are using different page templates. The page that the year links is on is using a custom template that it looks like you created called template-press-releases.php that is located int he child theme. Then the page that displays the actual posts is using the default page.php template from the parent theme.

The page.php template has some code in the sidebar.php file that it includes that starts off with “Display a subnavigation for pages that is automatically generated, so the users do not need to work with widgets” as a comment. So that’s where the list of pages is coming from that you said were not included in a widget. You were correct about that. You do have this turned off in page options though.

Then in the page editor for the page called “Press Release 2” there is an option to select the sidebar you want to use, and it was not set to the custom widget area you created called “News Stories”. Unfortunately, even after I changed that setting to the correct “News Stories” option it still does not display the “News Stories” widgets.

The only thing that I can figure out is that something with your theme’s default page.php template is blocking you from using custom widgets areas that you create. If I change the page template on the “Press Release 2” page to use the template-press-releases.php template, and set the widget option on the page editor to use “News Stories” widgets, then your sidebar shows up correctly. I’ve left it that way for you to take look at.

Aside from that, I believe it may be worth contacting the theme author and find out why the default page template won’t allow you to use custom widget areas that you create.

Sorry about the long post, this was pretty confusing to figure out, and even more confusing to try and explain by typing it out. Let me know if I can do anything else or if you need further explanation.

Ok, thanks for using the plugin. I’ll go ahead and mark this as resolved then. Let me know if any other issues arise.

It doesn’t look like you have the plugin activated. It would not appear under the “Settings” admin menu item, but rather, under “Comments”. Please send me an admin login using the link in my previous comment.

Just in case anyone else is wondering, the plugin user duplicated the plugin files and created a second plugin. This required modifying the the plugin files as well so that duplicate code was not present. This allowed for the creation of a second post type that was not a duplicate in the database.

The problem was that the second post type permalinks were not created in the database, and the issue was solved after re-saving the permalinks.

Can you please send me a link to your page that the plugin is being used on, and also an admin login to the WordPress backend? You can send it privately by going here.

I’m not sure I completely understand what the issue is that you’re having, but if you’re trying to use two individual simple sorters, that won’t work. There isn’t a way to differentiate between the two, so you’d just end up getting two of the same one.

I’d like some more input on this feature suggestion as I’m looking at a couple of options for it. Would having the category titles display in a header tag above the year list be better than having a user defined shortcode attribute such as the suffix="whatever"? I am not sold on adding another shortcode attribute as I don’t necessarily want to possibly confuse users with additional options.

Any thoughts on this from you (@Aguilar1181), or anyone else is welcomed.