Dani Llewellyn

When the site dies there should be some logged errors in a file on your server somewhere. This is likely called “Error Log” or “error.log” or “error_log”. It is possible that the functions.php file had an error with your changes that caused the site to stop, which the error log would help us to isolate. I suspect I probably made a mistake in the code sample above.

Hi,

I believe you can reinstate the list indicators with the following CSS added via the theme “customizer” in the “Custom CSS” box:

.div.letter-section > ul.az-columns {
    margin: initial;
}
.div.letter-section > ul.az-columns > li {
    display: initial;
    list-style: initial;
    padding: initial;
}

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Dani Llewellyn. Reason: correct the css - I used the wrong selectors
• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Dani Llewellyn. Reason: set display:initial on the list items to override display:block in plugin code
• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Dani Llewellyn. Reason: also reset padding on list items

You’re quite right, I think the $item->title should be $item->post_title.

Hi,

The best way to ignore the first character is to use the a_z_listing_item_index_letter filter. This can be added to your theme or child-theme’s functions.php and will ignore any non-alphabetical letter:

add_filter( 'a_z_listing_item_index_letter', 'ignore_a_z_non_alphabetical_letters_at_start_of_title', 10, 3 );
function ignore_a_z_non_alphabetical_letters_at_start_of_title( $index_letters, $item, $type ) {
    // if we already have an alphabetical letter, return it immediately
    if ( preg_match( '/^[A-Za-z]$/', $index_letters[0] ) ) {
        retrun $index_letters;
    }

    // loop through the title letters and return the first alphabetical letter
    for ( $i = 0; $i < mb_strlen( $item->title ); $i++ ) {
        $letter = mb_substr( $i, 1 );
        if ( preg_match( '/^[A-Za-z]$/' $letter ) ) {
            return array( $letter );
        }
    }

    // if we get here, then there are no alphabetical letters in the title so return the original index
    return $index_letters;
}

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Dani Llewellyn. Reason: add missing regex `//` characters

Ahh I see. This will require a fair amount of custom coding to implement. The plugin does not support this natively.

aah, my mistake. the return needs to be an array. Change return substr( $last_name, 0, 1 ); to return array( substr( $last_name, 0, 1 ) ); and that should fix it.

It looks like you’re changing the index letter only, not changing the layout of the title itself. You can now do this in a much simpler way by using the a_z_listing_item_index_letter filter:

add_filter( 'a_z_listing_item_index_letter', 'change_a_z_index_letters', 10, 3 );
function change_a_z_index_letters( $index_letters, $item, $type ) {
    // make sure we're filtering the right post type
    if ( 'page' === get_post_type( $item ) ) {
        // pull the title and get the first letter of the second word
        $full_name = explode( ' ', $item->post_title );

        // the last word is in the last element of $title_parts so check it is there
        $last_name = array_pop( $full_name );

        // ensure we actually found a last name
        if ( $last_name )  {
            // cut the first letter out for our index
            return substr( $last_name, 0, 1 );
        }
    }

    // if we get here we didn't override the indices so return
    // those already discovered.
    return $index_letters;
}