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# frier

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] Sort by year but show newest on top (+ a couple of bugs)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-by-year-but-show-newest-on-top-a-couple-of-bugs/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-by-year-but-show-newest-on-top-a-couple-of-bugs/#post-14441208)
 * Hi [@lukasjarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukasjarz/) !
 * Thank you for the detailed report on the issues!
    Unfortunately, I’m too busy
   to work on them right now, but I’ll definitely try to improve the plugin with
   your suggestions as soon as I have time to work on it!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] Highlight multiple but different authors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-multiple-but-different-authors/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/highlight-multiple-but-different-authors/#post-14415310)
 * Hi [@lukasjarz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukasjarz/) !
 * Unfortunately, there’s no functionality to highlight authors at the moment. But
   I like the idea and will try to implement it in the future!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] Publications not showing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publications-not-showing/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publications-not-showing/#post-14415303)
 * Hi [@spacemanspiff86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spacemanspiff86/) !
 * I’ve tested the plugin with all the other plugins you’ve listed above and found
   no incompatibilities. Unfortunately, the only possible reason of publications
   not showing up I can think of right now is that you’re missing inputs in plugin
   settings -> custom publication lists options.
    Please, try, if you haven’t before,
   to fill the fields with default input: `[authors] [title] ([year]) [doi] [arxiv][
   filelink] [supplementary]` Don’t forget to save your settings after this and 
   check if it solved your problem on site’s pages.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] Publications not showing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publications-not-showing/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publications-not-showing/#post-14401816)
 * Hi again [@spacemanspiff86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spacemanspiff86/)!
 * I’ve just tested the plugin with Elementor (latest version) installed and it 
   seem to work fine, even with the pages created in Elementor editor.
    I do as 
   well use WordPress 5.7.1 right now. So, the issue is neither WP version or Elementor
   plugin. Your plugin settings are correctly set up too.
 * Can you provide me the full list of plugins you have right now, so I’ll check
   for possible conflicts with every one of them?
 * Thank you for your patience! I hope we’ll resolve the issue soon!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] Publications not showing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publications-not-showing/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publications-not-showing/#post-14400807)
 * Hi [@spacemanspiff86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spacemanspiff86/) !
   Sorry for the late reply!
 * What exactly is shown on your pages? Does the shortcode stay there or does it
   disappear?
 * In the first case, you’ve most likely disabled the shortcode replacement functionality
   in the settings. Make sure you have checkboxes checked for “Replace plugin shortcode”
   and “Clear tag if no match has been found” options. The latter option is needed
   to detect if the replacement functionally works properly.
 * In the second case, go to plugin’s “Manage Works” page and make sure you have
   a list of publications to display and the publications you need have “Paper is
   public” option checked.
 * If nothing above helps, please, let me know, I’ll try to investigate your issue
   further.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] Publications not showing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publications-not-showing/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publications-not-showing/#post-14193471)
 * Hi [@davexps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davexps/) !
 * I’ve just tested compatibility with Visual Composer and it seems there is indeed
   a conflict with it. It’s a pretty common issue with third party page builders
   that shortcodes fail to work. Unfortunately, there’s nothing I can do to fix 
   this.
    You can still use the default WordPress page editor to create a page to
   display publications and it will work fine this way.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/).
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] List format](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-format-2/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-format-2/#post-14106359)
 * Hi [@notion9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notion9/) !
 * Thank you for your response!
 * 1. If you’re asking about some dynamic sort feature on the website page, unfortunately,
   there is no such thing implemented in the plugin. All the publication sorting
   happens before posting the list on the site. That way you can only choose some
   options to determine the original order of the items in the list, but it can’t
   be changed later by the website user.
    2. The “link” in the example above is 
   a placeholder. Sorry, I didn’t make it clear. All the variables use these brackets–[].
   So you have to change this placeholder to the URL you want. For example, `<a 
   href="https://wordpress.org">[title]</a>` will create a link to the WordPress
   site. `<a href="[url]">[title]</a>` will create a link to specific URL set for
   that publication. In case, there was no URLs during .bib or DOI import, or if
   you added publication manually, you will have to fill the URL field manually.
   3. If you use the “file” field to manually upload the file to your site, you 
   can use it as an URL to the file (It seems I misunderstood you previously and
   provided the wrong example). Change the download link part in customization list
   to look like this: `<a href="../downloads/[filelink]">Download</a>` If you changed
   the download folder in the settings, you’ll have to change it as well.
 * I hope this will help you. In any case, feel free to ask anything!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] List format](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-format-2/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-format-2/#post-14099254)
 * Hi [@notion9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notion9/) !
 * Thank you for the documentation suggestion, I’ll work on it on the future updates!
   
   As for your publication list customization, go to “Settings”->”Books and Papers”
   page and scroll to “Custom Publication Lists” section. There you can change how
   the list elements are displayed using html tags and its’ attributes. For your
   example above you can use the following: `<a href="link">[title]</a> - <a href
   ="link">[authors]</a> - [year] - <a href="[url]">Download</a>` To sort the list
   you can use “Sort Order” setting in the “Custom Publication Lists” section and
   sort option in the shortcode: `[publications subj=all sort=title]` for example.
   Unfortunately, there’s no search option, though you can filter the output og 
   publication list using other options like “auth”,”subj”,”year”,”tag”, etc.
 * If there is anything else I can help with, feel free to ask.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] Name mix-up with consecutive authors with same last name](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/name-mix-up-with-consecutive-authors-with-same-last-name/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/name-mix-up-with-consecutive-authors-with-same-last-name/#post-14091085)
 * Hi [@m4yer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m4yer/) !
 * Thank you for the bug report!
    It should be fixed in the newest update now!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] How to use css style on books and paper](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-css-style-on-books-and-paper/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-css-style-on-books-and-paper/#post-14007866)
 * I’ve added support for some new attributes in the newest update. Can you update
   and try styling your link the following way?
    `<a href="https://linktosomething.
   com" style="color:white;background-color:blue;">Some text</a>`
 * If this won’t help either I’ll look for other solutions.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] Allow “target” and “rel” for links in custom lists](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/allow-target-and-rel-for-links-in-custom-lists/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/allow-target-and-rel-for-links-in-custom-lists/#post-14007779)
 * Hi [@m4yer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m4yer/) !
 * Thank you for the suggestion! I’ve added these attributes in the newest update.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] How to use css style on books and paper](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-css-style-on-books-and-paper/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-css-style-on-books-and-paper/#post-14007321)
 * Say you want to have a list with blue background.
    1. You can add a custom characteristic
   named “blue” with the value “background-color:blue;”. Then you have to apply 
   this style to every publication you need: go to “Manage Works” plugin page, click“
   Modify” and check the box near “blue” field. 2. If you go to appearance -> customize
   page, and select “Additional CSS”, there will be empty (by default) field where
   you can enter any css code. To change the style of every list element you can
   enter this:
 *     ```
       li{
       background-color:blue;
       }
       ```
   
 * 3. Also, if I recall correctly, you can manually add style attribute to <div>
   tag. To do so, go to plugin settings page and change the publication list field
   to look like this:
    `<div style="background-color:blue;"><i>[authors]</i> <b>[
   title]</b> ([year]){{<a href="[url]">URL</a>}}</div>`
 * Hope this will help! If not, I’ll try to provide better instructions.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] Feature request: Abstracts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-abstracts/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-abstracts/#post-14006558)
 * Hi [@andrewhillphd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewhillphd/) !
 * Thank you for the suggestion! I’ll try to implement this in the future updates,
   though unfortunately, I can’t provide you with any estimates how much time it’ll
   take.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/).
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] How to use css style on books and paper](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-css-style-on-books-and-paper/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-css-style-on-books-and-paper/#post-14006547)
 * Hi [@wuksage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wuksage/) !
 * Right now there are two ways to style your publication lists with css:
    1. You
   can go to plugin settings page and then find custom characteristic section. There
   you can enter the name of characteristic and its style. After that, save this
   settings and go to “manage works” page, open the specific publication and enable
   it. However, if you need to style every list item, it will require you to open
   every publication and enable the characteristic. 2. You can go to WordPress appearance
   page, then choose “Customize” option. It will open the window where you can personalize
   your site. Navigate to “Additional CSS” section. There you can enter the CSS 
   for list elements. Although in this case it applies the style changes to the 
   whole site, and it may change something you don’t want to.
 * If it won’t resolve your issue, I’ll try to come up with something more convenient
   in the future updates.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Books & Papers] CSS styling in Settings](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-styling-in-settings/)
 *  Plugin Author [frier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frier/)
 * (@frier)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-styling-in-settings/#post-14002531)
 * Hi [@digitben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitben/) !
 * The thing is that due to security reasons every user input must be filtered, 
   so it won’t accidentally break anything on the backend. That same filter removes
   most of the hmtl tags by default and you have to manually enter the exclusions.
   
   Well, anyway, I’ve added the <br> and <p> tags now, in the newest update. If 
   there are some other tags that you want to use, feel free to ask and I’ll add
   them too.
 * Thank you for the question!

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