column-count

Hi,

To get multiple columns the process changed from when the shortcode included the column-count argument. I think I must have not documented the fact, sorry :-(. The solution is:

Copy the file templates/a-z-listing-multi-column.php to your theme at wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/a-z-listing.php as you said you have done. Open the file and note the two lines at the top which specify the number of columns ($_a_z_listing_colcount) and the minimum number of items to include in each column before overflowing to the next when you don’t have many posts ($_a_z_listing_minpercol). You can modify the numbers assigned to either of those as you desire.

Getting no results might be a symptom of an incorrect post-type slug, or you have no posts in the post-type you specified. Could you first try removing the column-count=3 parameter to see if that is causing an incompatibility (it isn’t doing anything anyway, as I mentioned I changed the way it works but forgot to document that). If there is still no output, but the letters at the top of the page are present then it is possible that the post-type is incorrect or there are no posts in that post type. If there is no output at all then something more obscure is afoot. If you are getting absolutely nothing at all, even the shell of your theme like the site title and footer, known as a White Screen Of Death, then there may be some clues in your server’s error log file.

Daniel, thank you so much for the prompt reply. I’ll try this now.

Hi Daniel, Thanks again, I’ve got this working I think – it’s outputting multiple divs and columns but they don’t seem to be floated/styles. So I *think* the css for this is missing… Or perhaps something in my own stylesheet is overriding it. I’ll figure out!

You might be running an older version of the plugin that did not output the styes by default. Check that you’re running the latest version to eliminate that as a cause for lack of styling.

I’m tentatively setting this thread as resolved. If this is incorrect, please comment and I’ll return to help you as best I can ??

Hello Daniel,
I uploaded version 1.4.1 of A-Z listing, I copied the multi-columns example in the template and named it a-z-listing.php, but multi-columns do not work.
The div are correctly generated according to the parameters in a-z-listing.php but there is no float visualization.
Could you help me, please ? I thank you in advance,
Anne-Marie

Hi Anne-Marie,

I’ve not tested the multiple columns layout as much as the rest of the plugin, so I might have neglected to get the styling correct when I changed some CSS code recently. I’m just looking now and will report back – I think I will probably need to cut a new release with any fixes for you to upgrade to.

ok, I did need to roll a new version, so you should be able to upgrade to 1.5.0 shortly when it becomes available. This version will fix the styling – there were two issues:

1. Styling not loading at all when shortcode used
2. Styling not correctly laying out the multiple columns

Daniel, thanks a lot for your prompt reply, I appreciate. So, I will wait for your new version, no problem :O) Anyway, your plugin is exactly what I needed, and I thank you for that.
Best wishes,
Anne-Marie

Hello Daniel,

I solved multi-column problem by the following :
1. Updated a-z-listing . php by adding a class to <div>

<?php if ( 0 === $i++ ) : ?>
<div class="az-box">
<ul>
<?php endif; ?>

2. I added the css features in a custom css to avoid changing the original :
`/* Index */
.az-box {
float:left;
width: 40%;
}
‘
I am not sure of 40%, I made some tests, it seems OK.

BUT, testing this, I notice that only the pages are listed in the index, not the posts. The shortcode I used is [a-z-listing]
Did I miss a parameter to make posts displayed also in the index ?
Could you help me , please ? Thanks in advance,
Anne-Marie

Hi Anne-Marie,

Regarding 1, the extra divs should be handled automatically when you have the a-z-listing-multi-column.php copied into your theme as a-z-listing.php.

2. Also, the styling should be automatically handled to make those extra divs be side-by-side.

To get both posts and pages on the same listing you need to amend your shortcode tag to:

[a-z-listing post-type="post,page"]

note that you’ll need to update, again, to version 1.5.1 (I found that the multiple post-type support didn’t work as it should so I’ve just uploaded a fix for it).

Hello Daniel,
Thanks for your reply.
1. Concerning multi-columns :
I uploaded again version 1.5.1, and copied the multi-columns example in the template and named it “a-z-listing.php”, but multi-columns still does not work. I found that this problem comes from css property
.letter-section {
display: flex;

If I invalidate this property and add a class to div as I explained in a previous post, multi-column works fine. I took screenshots for you, but I find nowhere here to attach them.

2. Concerning both posts and categories display, thanks for the short code, I was mistaken by the term ‘slug’ in your documentation, I had not understood :O)