Dani Llewellyn

Hi,

I suspect that your taxonomy and terms aren’t named the same, so you likely want to adjust your taxonomy name to something like category to reference a term called promotion in the taxonomy called category; the wp-admin area calls the category taxonomy “Categories”. See the taxonomies documentation for information on the difference between a taxonomy and terms within a taxonomy.

Specifying terms and parent-term is likely to cause the plugin to get into an unusual state; it might work correctly, but there are no guarantees. Ideally you would use one or the other, not both.

The issue with memory limits being hit is known and I’m working through various experiments to try to reduce the memory requirements of the plugin. You might find that it is intermittent, or that some settings work while others hit the memory limit. The issue stems from the requirement to load all the relevant posts/terms into memory to sort them by their title.

Hi,

You can force a Latin alphabet instead of the Russian alphabet by adding to your shortcode the following:

alphabet="AÁÀÄÂaáàäâ,Bb,CÇcç,Dd,EÉÈËÊeéèëê,Ff,Gg,Hh,IÍÌÏÎiíìïî,Jj,Kk,Ll,Mm,Nn,OÓÒÖÔoóòöô,Pp,Qq,Rr,Ssß,Tt,UÚÙÜÛuúùüû,Vv,Ww,Xx,Yy,Zz"

Hi,

For your first question you want display="posts" instead of what you currently have (display="terms").

The second question will require some custom theming depending on your site’s requirements. There is a template in the plugin which you can copy into your theme and edit to suit. This template is at wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php.

One caveat is that the post (product) is not loaded fully by the plugin in an attempt to improve performance and reduce memory load. However, this means you are likely going to miss some WordPress functionality such as excerpts until you change this:

while ( $a_z_query->have_items() ) :
	$a_z_query->the_item();

to this:

while ( $a_z_query->have_items() ) :
	$a_z_query->the_item();
	$a_z_query->get_the_item_object( 'I understand the issues!' );

If you have lots of products in your listing this could potentially cause loading the page to hit your server’s time or memory limits.

You might be missing the PHP extension on your server called mbstring, which could account for the problem. Otherwise I’m unsure what the problem might be…

Hi,

This isn’t possible right now. I’m not sure at the moment how to enable such a feature.

Hi,

You will need to copy the template file from wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php into your theme at the root folder e.g. wp-content/themes/your-theme/a-z-listing.php. Once you’ve copied the template you can customise to suit. I haven’t checked whether you need the WP_Post object loaded, but if it isn’t needed I believe the following modification to lines 57-59 will do the job:

<a href="<?php $a_z_query->the_permalink(); ?>">
	<?php $a_z_query->the_title(); ?>
</a>
<?php the_terms( $a_z_query->get_the_item_id(), 'year', '(', ', ', ')' ); ?>

This will print the terms linked to their own page (according to the ‘the_terms’ documentation). An alternative, if you want the terms linked to the post is to use get_the_terms, which returns an array that you’ll need to iterate over to build the list. You can then place the output either inside the <a> to link the whole list to the post, or after the <a> to leave the list unlinked:

<a href="<?php $a_z_query->the_permalink(); ?>">
	<?php $a_z_query->the_title(); ?>
</a>
<?php
$terms = get_the_terms( $a_z_query->get_the_item_id(), 'year', '(', ', ', ')' );
if ( ! empty( $terms ) ) {
	print '(';
	$first_iteration = true;
	foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
		if ( $first_iteration ) {
			$first_iteration = false;
		} else {
			print ', ';
		}
		print $term->term_name;
	}
	print ')';
}
?>