Dani Llewellyn

Hi,

Have you inserted a shortcode to trigger the plugin to display anywhere? This is a requirement – it should be inserted into a post’s editor screen (if you’re using the block editor then there is a “shortcode block” for this) or into a site builder using a shortcode facility if they provide one. It should look similar to this:

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

There are many configurable options that you may specify on the shortcode. If you explain the requirements for your listing I can attempt to craft the appropriate shortcode for you.

I’ve just had a poke through your site to see if I can see what’s up – it looks like you do not have a category called “courses” but you do have a page called “courses” that looks to be a common parent to all your courses. If you want to show all children of the courses “page” then this will do what you need:

[a-z-listing display="posts" post-type="page" parent-post="601"]

Note that the number 601 is the post-ID of your “Courses” page – this is specific to your site, and will need to be updated if you want to use a different page for the parent.

Hi,

From what you describe, it sounds like this plugin is not suitable. You might find another plugin works better for your needs.

For reference, this plugin can only show posts or terms in alphabetical format. It cannot show arbitrary data other than posts or terms.

Hi,

My plugin shouldn’t affect the compression or caching in any way. I suspect this is something different that is interacting with the super cache plugin.

How have you configured your A-Z page?
Are you using the shortcode via the Shortcode block in the block editor, or have you inserted it into the post content as normal text, or are you adding the listing some other way?
Can you edit your post and put the address of your A-Z page in the “Link to the page you need help with” field, please? (note that this address won’t be visible to search engines)

Yes, you can do this. The default template at plugins/a-z-listing/templates/a-z-listing.php must be copied to your theme alongside style.css with the name a-z-listing.php. From there you can edit it to suit. To access custom fields I suspect you’ll need to add $post = $a_z_query->get_the_item_object( 'I understand the issues!' );. The parameter I understand the issues! indicates to the plugin that you appreciate that larger listings might be slow or cause PHP to hit the memory limit defined on your server while using this feature. This is because it loads more information from the database than it normally does to support accessing the full post including custom fields.

I’ve shown below with context to indicate where it should go:

<ul class="columns <?php echo $a_z_listing_column_class; ?>">
	<?php
	while ( $a_z_query->have_items() ) :
		$a_z_query->the_item();
		$post = $a_z_query->get_the_item_object( 'I understand the issues!' );
		?>
		<li>
			<a href="<?php $a_z_query->the_permalink(); ?>">
				<?php $a_z_query->the_title(); ?>
			</a>
		</li>
	<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>

Perhaps init is too early. Can you try replacing the add_action call with this?:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'your_override_wrapper_function', 99 );

If that works then I’ll update the documentation to reflect it.

I’m not very familiar with the Greek alphabet. Is this better?

[a-z-listing alphabet="Αα,Ββ,Γγ,Δδ,Εε,Ζζ,Ηη,Θθ,Ιιίϊ,Κκ,Λλ,Μμ,Νν,Ξξ,Οο,Ππ,Ρρ,Σσς,Ττ,Υυ,Φφ,Χχ,Ψψ,Ωω"]