Dani Llewellyn

oh, damn, I missed a step in releasing the new version (the missing 2.0.6). There’s two places that need the version number changed for every release and I missed one of them so WordPress.org didn’t know that the new version was ok to make available..

*facepalm*

Thanks for alerting me, it’s updated now 🙂

What is the behaviour of the failure?

e.g. Does the page show an error? Is the page completely loaded, or is the html cut-off? Is the listing complete, just missing the thumbnails? Do any thumbnails load or are they all missing?

Could you try some debugging steps such as inserting an else clause on the has_thumbnail() check – the example below will print the post ID to make sure that the $post object is loaded properly:

if ( has_thumbnail( $post->ID ) ) :
    ...
else :
    echo "<br />The thumbnail cannot be found. The post ID is '{$post->ID}'.<br />";
endif;

Thumbnails are not a default output for this plugin. You need to customise the template and acknowledge that slowness might result.

To do so, find the file at wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php and copy it into your theme. This is the template that will drive your listing. You need to edit the template to include an appropriate the_post_thumbnail() call.

That will not work by itself, however, as the post object is not loaded into memory in an effort to improve performance. In addition to adding a call to the_post_thumbnail(), you also need to add a call to $a_z_listing->get_the_item_object() directly after the line that calls $a_z_listing->the_item(). This call must pass as the first parameter a value of I understand the issues! to confirm that you understand that on a large site this might slow down the page load or cause memory limit issues.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Dani Llewellyn. Reason: fix link

You will need to copy the template from wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php into your theme and modify it to support the subtitles plugin.

The modification required is on line 45. Replace that line with the following:

$a_z_query->the_item(); // this was here already
$a_z_query->get_the_item_object( 'I understand the issues!' ); // this is new

Please note that on large listings this will slow your site down, and might cause it to hit the memory limits imposed by your server. The parameter supplied to get_the_item_object() must read exactly I understand the issues! to confirm that you understand this point. If your listing is smallish then this won’t be a problem.

Yes, exactly like that.

This should be fixed in 2.0.5.

You’ve hit a problem that someone else just reported, too. It looks like there’s a bug, but I’m not sure what’s causing it – I’m investigating right now 🙂

You’ll need to add a custom function to your theme’s functions.php file. Something like this should work:

add_filter( 'a_z_listing_item_indices', 'custom_index_by_slug', 10, 3 );
function custom_index_by_slug( $indices, $item, $type ) {
    $slug = $item->post_name;
    $index = mb_substr( $slug, 0, 1, 'UTF-8' );
    return array( $index => array( array(
        'title' => get_the_title( $item ),
        'item' => "post:{$item->ID}",
        'link' => get_the_permalink( $item ),
    ) ) );
}

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Dani Llewellyn. Reason: fix add_filter() to pass all the parameters