Dani Llewellyn

Hi,

I’m not sure what’s going on there. You might find that flushing your rewrite rules will fix it. To do that, navigate to wp-admin -> settings -> permalinks and click the “save changes” button without changing anything on the page.

I’m hoping that flushing the rewrite rules will fix it, because other than permalinks being confused I can’t think what would be causing the issue.

It depends which version you updated from, but versions after 2.0.0 do not load the whole post into the server’s RAM when building the listing. You need to load the post object into memory to be able to use the_content or the_excerpt because this is not included in the data that the plugin normally loads. You can force the loading of post objects into memory by adding the following line to your template after $a_z_query->the_item();, which in the current template is on line 54:

$a_z_query->get_the_item_object( 'I understand the issues!' );

Note the text passed as the parameter I understand the issues! must read exactly that to tell the plugin that you understand that doing this may result in the page loading slowly or failing to load at all if you have a large number of posts to show. This problem is because it takes a lot of database queries to load all the posts and also memory will be incrementally allocated as each post is loaded without being freed until the request is complete or fails.

Hi,

1) You can show the letters alone by either using the widget (which is a bit neglected and doesn’t support the full spectrum of configuration) or using the shortcode with the super secret option added that reads return="letters" (this is actually what the widget uses underneath).

2) From the screenshot it looks like you’ve added the shortcode into a “preformatted text” area in the post or a page builder. The shortcode needs to be in either a special “shortcode” block via a page builder or in normal post content with no styling applied (i.e. not wrapped in <pre> and </pre>).

Anything is possible 🙂 The plugin doesn’t include this functionality so you’ll need to write some javascript and possibly override the template used to output the listing.

The template is at wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php. To override the template, copy it into your theme so that it is at wp-content/themes/your-theme/a-z-listing.php, and edit to suit.

Are you using the portfolio post-type from the Jetpack plugin?

If you are then the post-type is named jetpack-portfolio, not portfolio.

Otherwise you need to navigate to your WordPress admin page and then on the left hand menu click the Portfolio item to get a list of all your portfolio posts. Once you’ve found the list of all your portfolio items you should see in the address bar an address similar to:

https://example.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=portfolio-posttype

The post type for use in the short-code should be after post_type=, up to either the end of the address or any & characters (which are used to separate key and value pairs from each other, where the key is before the = and the value is after)

Yes, this is possible by overriding the template with one that uses the_item_post_count().

The process is:

1. Copy the file from wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php into your theme or child theme’s top-level folder, e.g. wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/a-z-listing.php
2. Edit the new copy and find on line 58 the code:

   <?php $a_z_query->the_title(); ?>
   

3. Replace that line with:

   <?php $a_z_query->the_title(); ?> (<?php $a_z_query->the_item_post_count(); ?>)
   

Hi,

The # symbol is used to group all items that the plugin could not assign to a specific alphabet character. This usually means that items whose title begins with a symbol or a number are grouped into the # entry. You can separate the numbers into their own section by adding numbers="before" or numbers="after" which will place the numbers either before or after the main alphabet letters – the # symbol will then group all items whose titles don’t begin with either an alphabetic character or a number.

Your use of grouping="3" means that the alphabet will be grouped with three letters from the alphabet in each group, i.e. A-C, D-F etc. When you add the numbers="after" to a shortcode with grouping= the numbers will be listed as a single 0-9 group.