Mark

that fixes it, thanks a ton!!

Thank you Katie. Clearing the cache doesn’t make a difference. I am considering reverting to an earlier version to check whether that fixes it (I have 7.3.7 running on another site) but I am a bit afraid of breaking stuff e.g. if there were database changes or similar — should I be?

Update: I’m trying to narrow down the problem. It is not posts versus pages, it is bibliography version single item based. E.g. this works:

[zotpress sortby=”year” collection=”J979GZZ4″ title=”year”]

but this doesn’t (generates the above error):

[zotpress item=”3H5FACVF”]

However, I can make the single item shortcode work by using the {api_user_key:itemid} format. E.g. this works:

[zotpress item=”{2494230:3H5FACVF}”]

This is on a site that has (1) ZotPress cache cleared, (2) only a single connected Zotero API key, (3) that single user set (a group library) to default. It is a mystery to me why the same zotpress shortcode call doesn’t work for a single item when it evidently does for whole collections from same library.

(Is it relevant that my single API user is a group library rather than a personal library? This never was an issue before but who knows.)

• This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by Mark. Reason: + narrowing down the problem
• This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by Mark. Reason: + group library

Excellent, thanks — I can await the official update.

This is what it looks like:

Care to post how you resolved this?

With ZotPress, you only cite documents that you actually put in a library. Things need not be published, but they need to be citable in some reference style in order for ZotPress (really the underlying citation style language) to know how to display them in a bibliography or as an in-text citation.

Looks like you’re looking for a free-form type of referencing that I would say is amply covered by the hyperlink! Especially if you don’t want to put stuff in a database but just link it, that is basically the point of in-text links.

Could it be that your Zotero API key needs resetting? Check this or generate a new one under https://www.zotero.org/settings/keys

Please describe what you have tried. Adding an API key in Zotero with the appropriate access rights *to that group library* is a key step. You can do this in your Zotero settings: https://www.zotero.org/settings/keys

Then you need to tell ZotPress to use that API key. If you have verified those steps and it still doesn’t work, please report back. I have multiple ZotPress installations with group libraries that work this way.

Certainly possible — please carefully read the support pages of the plugin, where it is made clear how to accomplish this. Everything you need for this is on the ZotPress > Help page that you can reach from the WordPress dashboard.

Cool! @kseaborn I have tested the new code on my production site (PHP version 7.4.33 WP version 6.1.1) and everything works as expected. I have a bunch of other plugins that are not guaranteed to work with PHP 8.1 so I’m not easily able to check it out in 8.1 — so, just a single data point for now!

In case anyone is interested what @kfeuerherm’s patched version looks like, here is a diff shown in a quick zotpress fork on github. I have no intention of further developing this as I lack the JS/PHP programming skills but I wanted a quick way to see what this automatic tool would change.

Have to say I’m quite impressed by the rector documentation.

Excellent, yes! I look forward to the next release.

The second part of my suggestion was about installation instructions here in the plugins repository, which currently are only the boilerplate stuff used for any plugin. I often look at that page prior to installing a new plugin to see roughly what’s involved.

Thanks for creating this plugin!

As to controlling what gets pushed, I think it would be great to tap into WordPress taxonomies for that — e.g. everything gets pushed by default, but the ActivityPub settings page might have a setting to exclude posts with a certain tag or category, or alternatively, to only push items with that tag/category.

Happy to have found this thread and to see ActivityPub is under active development. I’ll await the new username editing support as I was running into the same issues — I’m the sole author on my blog but don’t necessarily want to expose the username; rather I want sth like [email protected] to be the fediverse profile name people.

Yes I think that would work. It’s easy to then prompt ZotPress to display that collection on a particular post or page related to the article.