Basic question zotpress display

Zotpress only provides the basics at this stage. Recreating your Zotero library on your website IS possible, but it would require a lot of coding on your end. It also begs the question: Why not simply link to your Zotero library?

Katie thank you very much for kind reply.

I have in the past relied on a link to my zotero library. But while the functions are excellent, and I couldn’t survive without my browser client for constant lookup, the display online is AWFUL. Also that is sending visitors offsite – I want the service to integrate with other indexes (timelines, A-Z index) blog articles, forum on my site.

I’d be extremely grateful to know what basics zotpress does cover? This wasn’t clear to me from the description, apologies if I’m being dense. I think zotpress gives a single citation, or several, for inclusion in an article.
Does it embed a group of zotero listings in a wordpress page in any way? It seems if it can include a selected number of entries as an article bibliog it might be able to just display the whole lot, with pagination. As I said I don’t personally mind if it didn’t update automatically; I could do that manually once a month or so.
I am using Tablepress which does a nice neat grid display for my other types of lists.
https://mabinogistudy.com/research/index-of-people-and-places/

Much neater than zoetro’s neglected design. Also zotero does little to ensure it’s clear that this is MY content, not theirs.

The basics: Zotpress can display in-text citations, bibliographies, and lists of your collections and tags.

What do you mean by a group of Zotero listings?

OK you say zotpress can display a bibliography.

I want to display this zotero library – my Mabinogi Bibliog
https://www.zotero.org/groups/mabinogistudy/items

Have the entries display in a wordpress page, as a grid.
Title / Creator – would love the publication Date which zotero does not show grrrrr. date modified doesn’t matter.

There are 1,100 listings so it would need to paginate, as it does on the zotero page.

It would be good to do just a simple search.
I don’t understand clever things like API etc

Right now, there’s not a good way to do this with shortcodes. However, if you can code it yourself or find a developer to help you, you could extract the code I’m using for the Browse page and display on the front-end of your website.

Dear Katie,

First of all, Thank you for the hard work you put together to provide us with this fantastic plugin !

I have more than 1500 sci. refs that I would like to display on the front-end of my website with pagination and automatic filters (year, date added, collection, author, tags).

In wordpress, it seems to me that there is no simple bibliographic plug-in like this one for drupal https://www.drupal.org/project/biblio / example https://liiscience.org/biblio ). It’s really missing… ?? and using zotpress shortcodes won’t be really of any help for visitors considering the amount of refs i’m using … plus sending visitors to zotero.org isn’t really nice…

Unfortunately I’m not a developer but is it something that you can consider doing in the near future given that the code you are using for the browse page has already been written? I really believe that it would be a big addition for the wordpress community

Many thanks for considering the request

This feature is on the to-do list — coming soon!

Katie right now my Zotpress display only shows my top level library which is a few entries I did to test the Zotero system when I first started.

How do I make it display my Mabinogistudy Group Library?
https://www.zotero.org/groups/mabinogistudy/items

As noted this is a bit over 1,000 entries so it would need pagination.

When you say something is on your To Do list do you mean
– Pagination
– Search
– Order on Creator up/ down
– Show column for Date, order up/down

I have a nice plugin called Tablepress which has those features on its grid. Example
https://mabinogistudy.com/research/contents/index-of-mabinogi-scholarship/

Maybe your Zotpress and Tablepress could work together?

Thanks a lot for your answer Katie! Really happy to know that you are working on it. Looking fwd…

Check out 5.4 for a new shortcode to display your library on the front-end of your website: [zotpressLib userid=”000000″]

Pagination, search, order and so are are still to-do.

Hi Katie,

When could we expect to see some interactive tabular JavaScript plugin implementation of Zotpress, like with “DataTables Table plug-in for jQuery”. We definitely need to have that when we have a couple of hundred citation in one library embedded on our enterprise site! I was expecting to find such a premade plugin but there is none – this is your spot to shine above all others!

@cosmosphere Would an auto-complete search bar work? I’m not sure what the tabular data would look like.

@katie, I mean when there are hundreds of citations in a library or under a tag, especially if the abstract is shown, most importantly there needs to be a way to paginate those to several pages.

As a web developer I would recommend for you to use some ready made open-source JavaScript plugin. That might even be quite straightforward when you already know your own plugin’s source inside-out.

Take a look at this plugin for example, and I think you get what I mean… Such a plugin already has the search functionality and table sorting in-built, among other features. One would just need to instantiate it with the data and with proper settings. The abstract could perhaps be shown in a tooltip when mouse is hovered over a row. https://www.datatables.net/

@cosmosphere I took a look at the plugin before, but I can’t imagine how it would be laid out in a table, as most people just display the citation (one chunk/cell). An auto-complete search bar is already partially there courtesy of jQuery UI (used in the metabox). A person would type a search string that would look at author, title, etc. and dynamically display those entries below the bar. Maybe you could give me an example of what a table with filtering columns might look like for citations, e.g. how the columns/cells would be laid out.