Dani Llewellyn

Thanks for pointing out the error in the documentation. I’ll try to get that fixed in the next release (which will be version 3.0.1 or 3.1.0 depending on what else is added).

There isn’t a search feature in the plugin currently. It will need some custom coding to add. Adding an All item to the listing will likewise require custom code. I will take both of these as feature requests, though I might add these to an extension plugin rather than a core feature.

You cannot prevent this from showing.

It is supposed to be hidden by default and shown whenever you have any items in your list that are not categorised into one of the alphabetical letters. For example, if you have a post beginning with a symbol like a quote character then this post will be put into the # category, and the # will be added to your listing to accommodate this.

Sorry for the confusion 🙂

The documentation is split into two parts – one for display=posts and another for display=terms. I quoted the above suggestion assuming you were using display=terms.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Dani Llewellyn.

The beauty of the template mechanism that I’ve put into the plugin is that given enough will you should be able to accomplish anything that you can do with a normal WordPress “The Loop” driven by WP_Query. To customise the template my plugin uses you need to copy the file from wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php into your theme at (e.g.) wp-content/plugins/your-theme-name/a-z-listing.php.

I suspect you’ll want to use the post-id to pull your references from some location, such as a taxonomy, and append that information to the title. I’ve added the inner-most loop below (my plugin has a “letter loop” and an inner “items loop”) with a suggestion:

<?php
while ( $a_z_query->have_items() ) :
	$a_z_query->the_item();

	// Get the current post so you can access its ID.
	$post = get_the_item_object( 'I understand the issues!' );

	// Get the aliases.
	$aliases = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'aliases' );
	?>
	<li>
		<a href="<?php $a_z_query->the_permalink(); ?>">
			<?php $a_z_query->the_title(); ?>
			/**
			 * Add the aliases here to link them to this post.
			 */
		</a>
		/**
		 * Add the aliases here to have them not-linked to this post
		 * or to add your own links to them.
		 */
	</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>

The argument passed to get_the_item_object() must read exactly I understand the issues! to indicate to the plugin that you are aware that larger listings will be slowed or hit resource limits by using this mechanism. I will add a get_the_ID() method on the $a_z_listing object in a future release of the plugin to alleviate some of the related pressures.

Your site has javascript in the main document that looks like:

<script>
//jquery-ui-tabs
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
jQuery( "#az-tabs" ).tabs();
});
</script>

This is not shipped by my plugin which means either you, one of your plugins, or your theme has added it.

The only bit of code in my plugin that adds a display: none to any elements is the tabify javascript. If you aren’t loading that then you either have some PHP that filters and modifies the output of WordPress before sending the page, or you have some other javascript that is hiding elements once the page loads in the user’s browser.

I could check your site to see if I can isolate a javscript-based hiding mechanism. I’ll need the link to it in order to do this though.

Hi,

I’m not sure what’s happening on your site, but it might be that you have enabled the tabify javascript with a bit of code in your theme’s functions.php or you might have another javascript somewhere that is trying to make the listing into a tabbed view. You can try verifying by clicking on one of the linked letters at the top (the horizontal bar of letters) to see if they change which letter is visible below.