Dani Llewellyn

Hi,

You should be able to use a shortcode like:

[a-z-listing display="posts" post-type="post" taxonomy="category" terms="xxx"]

I am guessing your term isn’t named “XXX”, so you will need to replace the slug xxx with the slug(s) of your categories separated by commas: ,. To use a different taxonomy (i.e. a taxonomy that is not categories) you will need to change the slug category to the slug of your taxonomy. I’ve assumed you want to show the post-type of Posts; if you want to show pages you can change post-type="post" to post-type="page".

Hi, as your site is new I expect the post types you have available are post and page. To show both you want to use the following shortcode:

[a-z-listing display="posts" post-type="page,post"]

To show only pages you can use:

[a-z-listing display="posts" post-type="page"]

And to show only posts then:

[a-z-listing display="posts" post-type="post"]

Note that the display="posts" is not strictly necessary as this is the default, so you can omit that to leave you with:

[a-z-listing post-type="page,post"]

You can use either exclude-posts="1,2,3" or exclude-terms="term-to-exclude,another-term" in the shortcode, which requires version 2.1.0 or 2.1.1 of the plugin:

[a-z-listing display="posts" post-type="product,page" exclude-posts="42"]

or

[a-z-listing display="posts" post-type="product,page" exclude-terms="no-a-z"]

You could even combine them:

[a-z-listing display="posts" post-type="product,page" exclude-posts="42" exclude-terms="no-a-z"]

The plugin will use the # symbol for any post that doesn’t begin with a letter defined in the alphabet that the plugin is using. If your posts begin with an A then they should be in the A group. If your posts begin with an accented A that I haven’t anticipated then they will be shuffled into #. (I’ve anticipated the common European accents such as Á, and à. All the letters the plugin defaults to using are below, though some localisations might have overridden this via glotpress:

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

The glotpress translations are automatically installed by WordPress. You can see their status or contribute at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/a-z-listing

The first thing to check for an easy win if it works is whether the mbstring PHP extension is enabled on your server, enabling it if it isn’t currently enabled. I’ve tried to work around cases where mbstring isn’t present, but the fallback code might not work correctly – I still need to find a way to test that reliably and easily…

While my plugin can be used to create such a feature it will require custom development to implement it.

Getting the plugin to output into the header will likely need you to edit the header.php file in your theme to add either a do_shortcode() call or an the_a_z_listing() call.
You will need to write the supporting javascript for the reveal when your visitors hover their mouse over the letters. You might also need to copy the template from the plugin into your theme and edit it accordingly to support the concept.

Version 2.1.0/2.1.1 is now available which includes the exclude-terms feature.