Dani Llewellyn

Yes you can either edit the template you copied to your theme to remove the back-to-top link or you can use CSS to hide the links.

For removing the link from the template you need to either comment-out or delete the line that includes:

<div class="back-to-top"><a href="#letters">Back to top</a></div>

To hide using CSS the rule you want is either:

div.back-to-top {
    display: none;
}

Or if you want visually impaired visitors to still be able to use the link, you could use (based on the best practice documentation):

div.back-to-top a {
  border: 0;
  clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
  clip-path: inset(50%);
  height: 1px;
  margin: -1px;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding: 0;
  position: absolute !important;
  width: 1px;
  word-wrap: normal !important;
}
div.back-to-top a:focus {
  background-color: #eee;
  clip: auto !important;
  clip-path: none;
  color: #444;
  display: block;
  font-size: 1em;
  height: auto;
  left: 5px;
  line-height: normal;
  padding: 15px 23px 14px;
  text-decoration: none;
  top: 5px;
  width: auto;
  z-index: 100000; /* Above WP toolbar. */
}

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Dani Llewellyn. Reason: fix second css block to target the anchor tag not the div

The instructions are supposed to tell you to copy the file to your <b>theme’s</b> directory within wp-content/themes, e.g. wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/a-z-listing.php, not into the wp-content/plugins directory. If they don’t state that then I can fix it, but that’s what you’re supposed to do.

A White Screen of Death when you try to use this plugin indicates that you’re likely missing the mbstring extension to PHP. Your web hosting provider should be able to tell you how to enable it if they support you doing so. Otherwise you’ll need a different hosting provider that does allow mbstring. If you’re self-hosting on your own server then you can install it yourself using the tools provided by the operating system, such as apt or yum. For Ubuntu and Debian systems the package you’re missing is called php-mbstring.

There is no possibility for paging the results.

Yes, this should be possible to achieve by using something similar to:

[a-z-listing display="terms" taxonomy="product_cat"]

It is not possible to show only the descendants of a specific term in a hierarchical taxonomy. The only way to do that is to pull those child-terms into their own taxonomy.

This issue should be fixed now in 1.9.2

If you place the shortcode on posts of the “page” type, then you can create multiple a-z-listing.php templates in your theme following the pattern of a-z-listing-<section>.php where <section> is the top-most page in the hierarchy’s slug. For example, if you have pages like below:

• Home
• About

• Child of About

• Shop

Then, if you place the A-Z shortcode on About or Child of about, the template mechanism will use whichever is found first from: a-z-listing-about.php and a-z-listing.php when searched in that order.

Likewise if you put the A-Z shortcode on Shop or a child of Shop, the template mechanism will search in order: a-z-listing-shop.php followed by a-z-listing.php.

In all cases, if no template is found in your theme folder the plugin will use the default template at wp-content/plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php.

There will be a fix landing shortly for using multiple terms in the terms attribute. Currently it’s broken, but soon it won’t be.

The widget configuration will be improved in the next major version. I am working hard on a big overhaul which will be released to coincide with, or in the run-up to, WordPress 5.0.