Dani Llewellyn

Like your other question, this can be achieved by copying the file from wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php into your theme and removing the lines that print the alphabet. Specifically you want to remove the following lines:

	<div id="letters">
		<div class="az-letters">
			<?php $a_z_query->the_letters(); ?>
		</div>
	</div>

It sounds like you’ve been relying on broken code in my plugin. I’ve since “fixed” the breakage and so your assumptions are now conflicting with the way the plugin is working.

The plugin expects to show all selected items in every listing. It cannot anticipate every alphabet around the world so the alphabet override is designed to allow you to specify a different, complete, alphabet. By only including the A character you are restricting the plugin from knowing about any other letter and the plugin is designed to put any item not matching the provided letter into an extra category labelled #. This configuration means that all your items beginning with A are in one category while every other item is in the # category. I suspect this last feature was broken previously and you were relying on the behavior which I’ve since fixed.

Hi,

Can you let me know what you need to alter on a per-user basis so that I may better advise?

There are two ways that you can customise the listing:

• You can alter the parameters which select the included posts/terms via PHP instead of using the shortcode. This can then respond per visitor.
• The output of a particular listing is handled via the template which you can copy into your theme and add some PHP code to change its behaviour per visitor.
• Or you can do both 🙂

I’m really sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I don’t think my plugin can be coerced into showing something similar to your example :-(.

Hi,

Copy the template from wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php into your theme (e.g. copy it to wp-content/themes/<your-theme>/a-z-listing.php).

Now you can edit the copy in your theme to change line 58 that reads <?php $a_z_query->the_title(); ?>. You should get suitable results by changing it to:

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

It is worth noting that if your theme is not one that you created yourself (such as one of the default WordPress themes, a theme from WordPress.org, or one from a third-party) then you likely will benefit from creating a child theme so that any updates to the theme aren’t going to cause this situation from happening again.

I’m not sure I understand the issue you’re encountering, as you have not given me much information.

• Have you installed and activated the plugin?
• Have you added an [a-z-listing] shortcode to any posts or pages?
• Is there an error or other problem when you view the page you’ve added the shortcode to?

Aha, I think I confused you with the similarity between display="posts" and showing the post-type of posts. To show posts instead of pages, because pages is the default, you need to specify an extra parameter. Try this to see if it helps; note the extra post-type parameter, which is set to the post-type name post; the default for the post-type parameter when unspecified is post-type="page":

[a-z-listing display="posts" post-type="post" taxonomy="category" terms="praktika" alphabet="Аа,Бб,Вв,Гг,Дд,Ее,Жж,Зз,Ии,Кк,Лл,Мм,Нн,Оо,Пп,Рр,Сс,Тт,Уу,Фф,Хх,Цц,Чч,Шш,Щщ,Ээ,Юю,Яя"]

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Dani Llewellyn. Reason: d'oh. fix the shortcode - missed the shortcode name!