Dani Llewellyn

Hi,

This is potentially possible, though it will require some hard thinking. 🙂

You can try adjusting your shortcode to something like this:

[a-z-listing display="terms" taxonomy="category" parent-term="0" get-all-children="false"]

That will hopefully remove any term that has a parent term from the list. Now you can add those terms that have been removed by copying the file from wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php into your theme and modify lines 53 thru to 60. You will want to replace those lines with something like this to add the child terms:

while ( $a_z_query->have_items() ) :
	$a_z_query->the_item();
	?>
	<li>
		<a href="<?php $a_z_query->the_permalink(); ?>">
			<?php $a_z_query->the_title(); ?>
		</a>
		<?php
		$id = $a_z_query->get_the_item_id();
		$children = get_terms( 'category', array(
			'parent' => $id,
		) );
		if ( 0 < count( $children ) ) :
		?>
			<ul>
				<?php foreach ( $children as $child_term ) : ?>
					<li>
						<a href="<?php echo get_term_link( $child_term ); ?>">
							<?php echo $child_term->name; ?>
						</a>
					</li>
				<?php endforeach; ?>
			</ul>
		<?php endif; ?>
	</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Unfortunately this won’t keep the hierarchy beyond the first layer, i.e. grand-child terms will be listed alongside child terms.

Perhaps your PHP installation is missing the mbstring extension? If you have the required access to your web host then you should be able to find out whether it is currently enabled or enable it if it isn’t. This is the main reason that people encounter that causes this behaviour.

Hi,

You can change the number of columns by adjusting the CSS that drives the layout. This is currently much harder than it should be, and I’ve got improvements coming in a future version. For now, you need to adjust the CSS from what it currently uses to something that limits to two columns (You can add this using the theme customiser’s “custom CSS” feature, or add it directly to your theme):

.letter-section ul.columns {
    column-gap: 0.6em;
    column-width: 15em;
    line-height: 1.6em;
}
.letter-section ul.columns.max-0-columns,
.letter-section ul.columns.max-1-columns {
      column-count: 1;
      max-width: 15.6em;
}
.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: 2;
      max-width: 30.6em;
}

Hi @stormweb,

Please can you post your question into a new topic per the rules of WordPress.org’s forum guidelines? Many thanks 🙂

Hi,

I’m going to add this idea into my to-do list so that I get it implemented in a future version.

Hi,

Your shortcode is correct. I suspect that somewhere in your configuration of the post_tag taxonomy, or the template for displaying the terms’ posts in your theme (e.g. taxonomy-post_tag.php or taxonomy-post_tag-tagname.php), you have it configured to only show posts when you want it to also show pages…

Hi,

The layout of individual items in the list can be tailored by customising the template that comes with the plugin. Copy the file wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.example.php into your theme and modify to suit.

For the restriction of showing a single letter’s items at a time this is not a default behaviour for my plugin. It can be faked by adding the following to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter( 'a_z_listing_tabify', '__return_true' );

Note, however, that this will load all your items on a single page and merely hides the non-active letters. You will not have a separate address/page for each letter.