Sort by year but show newest on top (+ a couple of bugs)
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Hi, I’ve now added a good amount of papers to a website using this plugin and it works quite well (with a few quirks I’ll mention below).
I sort the publications by year and display it in a descending order (so starting with 2021, 2020, etc.) as a numbered list, which works. But within the year the papers are sorted in an ascending order, for example a paper published in January will be listed at the top even if there are “newer” papers published later in the year (let’s say June) in the list. Is there a way to sort both all papers and papers within a year in descending order, so the newest are always displayed at the top (of each year)?
Other quirks/bugs I’ve come across:
If the title contains a ‘ or \ sign you can import it via the Import from DOI function but can no longer modify it after the import (nothing happens if you click modify in “Manage Works”) – you’ll need to delete and reimport it.
If I import a paper via the Import DOI function and upload a file at the same time, the file will not be uploaded (no matter how long I wait to make sure the file was really uploaded). I have to go to Manage Works, delete the file and reupload it from there so that it is really uploaded.
Similarly, if I add a paper via the Import from DOI function, “It is preprint” is not selected by default. However once I imported it will be selected and I have to deselect it manually.
I was not able to import from a .bib file created by https://www.bioinformatics.org/texmed/ from a Pubmed search. It will only enter empty entries to the list of works (which youll then have to manually remove. An option to batch delete a couple of selected entries would be nice).
I don’t know if it is possible, but having the option to display the last name first and the first name only as initials would be great – I just prefer the looks of it and have to manually change every imported authors name from “First_Name Last_Name” to “Last_Name, Initials”.
Thanks!
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Another “bug” I ran into:
I wanted to add a link to the pdf of each paper using the conditional feature with {{ }} like:
{{<a href="server\uploads\pdfs\[filelink]">[PDF]</a> }}
However this does not work. It does work if I remove the conditional brackets (adding it to every paper obviously). It also works if I use (PDF) instead of [PDF] so I assume the [PDF] gets interpreted as a shortcode like [author] [year] etc. even though its not listed as such an option. I simply like the looks of [] brackets better than round ones ??I’ve looked into the first problem I have a bit more:
So I think papers the papers within a year are sorted by the ID instead of sort-date. I have three papers for 2021 with “Sort Dates” being Paper 1: 2021-01-14 (ID 111), Paper 2:2021-03-16 (ID23) and Paper 3:2021-05-07 (112). The papers get display as follow:
Paper 2
Paper 1
Paper 3so they are cleary sorted by the ID – is there a way to circumvent that and sort them by primarily by the Year and if available by the sort-date instead of the ID?
So what I want is (descending order according to the sort-date within each year. So the newest will always be on the top)
Paper 3
Paper 2
Paper 1
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