Feature suggestions for Zotpress, Part 2

Please add a shortcode to return the number of items in a collection. Thank you in advance.

Auto-syncing/updating will be cool!

The Zotero Web API gained the ability to use non-repository CSL styles in July. Do you have plans to support this feature? See https://twitter.com/rintzezelle/status/618493401600786432 . It would help us (as maintainers of the CSL style repository) a lot.

1. I second the ability to use non-repository CSL styles.

2. Also a way of saving default options with the Zotpress Reference metabox widget would be very handy.

3. Finally, I’d love a way of taking the “downloadable” URL link and wrapping the reference title in a <a href> tag. For example, I’d like to take the following reference:

Malykh AG, Sadaie MR. Piracetam and piracetam-like drugs: from basic science to novel clinical applications to CNS disorders. Drugs [Internet]. 2010 Feb 12;70(3). Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20166767

And turn it into…

Malykh AG, Sadaie MR. <a href=“https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20166767” target=“blank”>Piracetam and piracetam-like drugs: from basic science to novel clinical applications to CNS disorders.</a> Drugs [Internet]. 2010 Feb 12;70(3).

which should format like:

Malykh AG, Sadaie MR. Piracetam and piracetam-like drugs: from basic science to novel clinical applications to CNS disorders. Drugs [Internet]. 2010 Feb 12;70(3).

In APA style, multiple authors are to be separated by & (not and) when they are inside the parentheses. It would be great if, […and=”and”] could also be […and=”&”]. E.g.: (Smith & Jones, 1990, p. 22). Thanks!

Hi Katie.

I think it would be great, if you somehow could make it possible to search for the cicitations from Zotero by using the search widget and thereby getting a search result of those posts containing the cicitations that were being searched fore. Eg. on my site, I use a search plugin, that let me search for almost everything. But if I search for the cicitations from Zotero, then nothing happens.

The search plugin that I use is called “Instant search”:
Here you can see the options in this plugin.

I don’t know how to do it. But it would be great.

So you want to search your WP posts/pages by which citations they’re using?

Yes. If it is possible, Katie. Right now the only thing that is possible to search for in a search is the shortcode (eg. I search for ‘zotpress’), not the citations (if I search for eg. ‘Mads Hermansen’).

My wish:
Visitors can search for citations and get the pages/posts that use those citations.

Hi Katie!

Found this plugin a few hours ago (6.0.3), installed it (WP 4.3.1), so far works great! Gave it 5 stars already!

My list of suggestions / wishes / improvements:
1. When abstracts are displayed, have an option to hide them and expand them through a link, e.g., [Read abstract]. Otherwise, the pages with a list of citations with abstracts get absurdly long (even with ~20 citations).

2. Have the option to select an author’s name and make it stand out in the bibliography – e.g. when presenting my publications in a CV, I would like to have my name bold, smallcaps, or something of the sort.
This maybe already possible through JScript / CSS hacks, but if possible, it might be useful.

3. Have not been able to figure out a way to search for / display only specific types of items, e.g. book, journal articles, book chapters.

4. I am using the shortcode below to display all my publications, but it does not add numbers in front of each item, such as this (which I image should happen):

1. Kornilev et al 2015
2. Kornilev and Smith 2014
3. Smith and Kornilev 2013

[zotpress author=”Kornilev” style=”apa” sortby=”date” forcenumber=”true” download=”yes” abstract=”no” cite=”yes” title=”yes”]

5. To expand on @ianguel’s request, maybe add short codes to return counts in collections, but also in displayed results, even possibly like this:

Journal articles: 5
Books: 2
Book Chapters: 10

Thanks for this great work so far!

Thanks for a great plugin. I find it elegant and responsive. I hope two suggestions might be considered

1. I am wondering if it would be possible to give an option to supplement the zotero info with a book cover image. Another plugin WP-ISBN manages this rather simply with a call to a iSBN lookup engine. Since Zotero stores the ISBN already, would it be possible?

The WP_ISBN plugin also gives a link to an amazon page (though this is not configurable as yet in the rather simple version currently available and defaults to the Spanish site). That might not be such a great idea but is it possible to use one of the Zotero fields to store a link to say a publisher’s site. It would obviously be a configuration option

2 It would also be terrific if the zotpress bibliography would allow download of the files attached to the zotero entry. Perhaps it does this already but I can’t see how to do it.

I hope these suggestions can be considered. Thank you again for a very elegant plugin which have saved me a considerable amount of time mounting biographies on my site.

@mindclog 1, 2, and 5 are in the works. For 4, since APA doesn’t use numbering, it doesn’t show by default, but have you tried forcenumbers?

@ianrg 1: Do you know which lookup engine it is? The ones I tried are text-only, no images. Maybe it’s Amazon’s? 2: It only allows download of the paper, e.g. PDF. What were you hoping to provide?

@katie, great, thank you very much!

I tried again the shortcode (#4) from my original comment as it was – now it works like a charm… not sure what the problem originally was.

I’m not (yet) using Zotpress productively. I tried to achieve what I ask, forgive if it is possible or was already requested earlier.

I would love Zotpress delivering similar features/output to Reference (Extension:Cite – MediaWiki):

<ref>Reference in the text linked with
 a number to the post/page bibliography</ref>
== References for post/page in a numbered list ==
<references/>

So not sure if this is the best way/naming but just to try to explain the whished functionality better:
Reference link (automatically numbered) in the text.
[zotpress ref="T6XCHVMM"]
post/page references in an automatically numbered list
[zotpress references style="chicago-fullnote-bibliography"]

@chrisfo I’m not sure I understand but I think you mean this:

[zotpressInText item=”T6XCHVMM”]
[zotpressInTextBib style=”chicago-fullnote-bibliography”]

See the Help page on your Zotpress installation for additional attributes, e.g. for formatting the in-text citation.

@katie: thanks a lot (shame, I did not found help by myself). I achieved what I like most:

[zotpressInText item="{T6XCHVMM}" format="%num%" brackets="yes"]
[zotpressInTextBib style="plos-genetics"]

Back to topic:
1. I also support rmzelle’s non-repository CSL styles wish
2. I second xcorlett’s option wish: taking the “downloadable” URL link and wrapping the reference title in a tag.