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Katie,

I’m talking about a custom CSL style I created. In it, I explicitly request that it sort the items by the CSL “note” field which corresponds to the Zotero “Extra” field. I’m assuming that the style then serves the items in that order. If so, then all I need is to be able to tell Zotpress to display them in the order it receives them. Or am I missing sonething?

Here’s the link to the CSL style file.

Here’s a test page using this style.

Here’s the zotpress shortcode used on the page:

[zotpress collection=”F6X6F522″ tags=”test” showtags=”no” urlwrap=”title” abstract=”yes” style=”http://www.riverbendadvisors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/site-resource-list-new.csl” highlight:”Abstract” ]

Thanks!

Hi again,

OK, so I tested every one of the plugins on the 4.8.1 site that is having the problem. No change.

I then went over to another site I have. This one was at 4.7.5, the same level as the one that is still working with Custom Sidebars. I had loaded custom sidebars on this site when I first experienced the problem. Since I’m not actually using Custom Sidebars on the site, and I couldn’t think of anything else to do, I updated that site to 4.8.1.

Lo and behold, no spinning wheel (and no errors in the Chrome console).

So, to summarize:

I have a WP 4.7.5 site. No problems with custom sidebars.

I have a second site using the same theme which I upgraded from 4.7.5 to 4.8.1.
– Since upgrading, I get a spinning circle when I select “Sidebar Location” or “Edit” for any sidebar on the Widgets screen. The sidebar location menu is visible under the spinning wheel. This happens for all sidebars, not just custom ones.
– Note that custom sidebars do appear on the site.
– I can in fact create a new custom sidebar. I just can’t select the location for an existing one.

I have a third site, also using the same theme, which I just upgraded from 4.7.5 to 4.8.1. The spinning wheel problem does not appear on this site.

Should I perhaps try uninstalling Custom Sidebars and re-installing it on the problem site?

Thanks!

Michael

Switched to Default 2016 theme – still get the spinning circle.

There are a handful of plug-ins on the problem site (4.8.1) that I don’t also have on the site that does work (at 4.7.5). Some seem like a stretch to be culprits. I’m reluctant to turn all my plugins off (just in case), so perhaps you can suggest which ones I should try:
– Admin Columns Pro
– Collapse-o-matic
– Postie (used very sparingly)
– RDP WikiPress Embed (testing)
– RSS Multi-importer
– WP Crontrol
– WP Twitter Feeds (not currently using)

I do have a testing site, but I would have to install and customize the theme I’m using on these two production sites before I could try troubleshooting there. Let me know if that would be helpful.

Thanks!

Caroline,

Thanks. I have looked around the knowledge base, the “local” plugin library you provide, and some of the documentation.

I’m wondering if I can come up with a workaround using the existing code and features. For example, when I select the setting to “Include events in main blog loop”, what exactly changes? How is the main loop notified that events are to be treated like other posts?

I’m wondering if I could set a category or tag which I then filter out of the main loop.

More simply, could I set the publish_date for events I don’t want in the main loop to a date well in the past (e.g. 12/31/00), so that the event would technically be shown in the main loop, it would virtually never be reached in most displays because the main loop publishes in descending date order? (I noticed one of the extensions in your library allows the publish date to be overriden by the event date for purposes of the main loop’s ordering.)

If that worked, could the publish date later be reset so that the event moves up in the hierarchy? For example, say I have an event for which the publish date was originally set as 12/31/00 when it was published. Now I reset the publish date to yesterday. Would it now be picked up in the main loop and ordered accordingly?

Thanks!

That is exactly what I needed. Works like a charm!

Thanks, Geoff.

Michael

Including the URL in the shortcode is correct.

A couple of things I can think of to check:

– Make sure you are providing a fully-qualified address for the CSL file, and that the CSL file is readable and in a readable (by others) directory. My test page shortcode looks like this:

[zotpress collection="F6X6F522" tags="zpt" showtags="no" urlwrap="title" abstract="yes" style="http://www.riverbendadvisors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/site-resource-list.csl" highlight:"Abstract" ]

– Remove the reference to the CSL file in the shortcode just to be sure that something else isn’t causing the endless gear.

– Did you validate your CSL file? (Since you say it worked in standalone Zotero, it sounds as if the file is valid). You can validate a CSL file (and also verify that it can be read) at:

http://validator.citationstyles.org