Dani Llewellyn

If any of your posts begin with a symbol (i.e. not A-Z nor 0-9) then a new letter will show labelled #, which would conflict with your numbers letter. However, you can do this by hooking the the-a-z-letter-title filter. You could add something like this to your theme’s (or child theme’s) functions.php file:

add_filter( 'the-a-z-letter-title', 'replace_a_z_numbers_title' );
function replace_a_z_numbers_title( $letter ) {
	// The numbers letter is '0' when the numbers are grouped into one letter.
	if ( '0' === $letter ) {
		return '#';
	}
	// We're not working on the numbers group so return the original letter unchanged
	return $letter;
}

Hi,

If your “book” posts are assigned a the “biography” category then you can restrict the list by adding taxonomy="category" terms="biography" into your shortcode. For example, it might leave you with a shortcode like this:

[a-z-listing display="posts" post-type="book" taxonomy="category" terms="biography"]

The terms attribute takes one or more term “slugs”, which you can find by navigating in wp-admin to the categories list where you should see a table with a “slug” column with the slugs of each category in your database.

Yes, the short titles is because the plugin is making room for potentially adding more columns. You can avoid this by customising a copy of a-z-listing.example.php from the plugin’s templates folder, which does not have any columnar code.

Alternatively you can override the CSS with this to remove all columns:

.letter-section ul.columns {
    column-width: unset;
}

.letter-section ul.columns.max-0-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-1-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-2-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-3-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-4-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-5-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-6-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-7-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-8-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-9-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-10-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-11-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-12-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-13-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-14-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-15-columns {
    column-count: unset;
    max-width: unset;
}

You can add this either via your theme’s CSS or by using the Theme Customizer’s “Custom CSS” option.

Hi,

WooCommerce product categories are in the taxonomy called product_cat, so you likely want a short code like this:

[a-z-listing display="terms" taxonomy="product_cat" parent-term="26"]

You might also want, depending on whether your categories are multiple-levels or not, to also add get-all-children="yes", which will show all descendants (children and their children etc) rather than just immediate children.

Don’t forget to clear any server-side caching mechanisms when you make changes. I suspect your litespeed server is responding with an old copy of the page, tho I’m not certain.

Yes, this is possible by copying the default template from the plugin and removing the extra bits you don’t need. The template can be found at wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php and should be copied to your theme or child-theme’s top-level folder, e.g. wp-content/themes/$themename/a-z-listing.php.

You will want to remove lines 24 thru 28 (the div with id letters), lines 45 thru 49 (the div with class letter-title), and lines 63 thru 67 (the div with class back-to-top).

It may be preferable to copy and customise the other file in the templates folder of the plugin called a-z-listing.example.php, which you would need to copy to your theme and rename it to a-z-listing.php. This example template does not include the columns functionality, so you might prefer it to the default template because the columns of the default template will be applied to each letter separately.

Hi,

The first problem is fixable by adding hide-empty-terms="true" to your shortcode:

[a-z-listing display="terms" taxonomy="category" hide-empty-terms="true"]

Unfortunately I don’t have a solution to your second question :-(.