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ARG! On the issue with the prefix line . . . I clicked wh and got the list of terms (not where I want it but the listing nonetheless) and the prefix is now three lines, one single letters, one double letters and one triple letters. I have done NOTHING. I’m not even signed into the back end. ARG! Why the flaky behavior?

So can I which is why I set this topic to resolved. Thanks for confirming my findings.

How are you resaving the permalinks? And why do they keep breaking? Is it something I’m doing? Something the theme is doing? Something the plugin is doing?

But not in the sidebar. I don’t want it in the main portion of the page. I’m going to have to set the excerpt to something short so the scrolling doesn’t go on forever. Some of the articles for the terms are really long . . . pages long.

Quite true, but not in the index of terms in the sidebar. It brings up the list of terms in the main part of the page. With ~2000 terms, not isolating the index to just the selected terms isn’t optimal.

Try it -> https://www.surveyorslexicon.com/encyclopedia/prefix:w

How far do you need to scroll down to see something at the lower end of the list?

Also, look at the prefix line. I’ve got one line with single letters and two lines with two letters. This behavior comes and goes. Yesterday it worked perfectly. Today . . . not so much. Yesterday the prefix links worked not at all, today they work. I feel like I’m chasing shadows trying to get consistent behavior from day to day.

This also appears to be a theme issue. I can now set two different depths and it works flawlessly.

Ignore this. It’s a theme issue. I switch to Bootstrap basic and this behavior disappeared.

Still not getting a prefix only index. What am I doing wrong?

https://www.surveyorslexicon.com/lexicon/prefix:w/

I can click on a term and it comes up as it should in the page so color me happy on that, but with over 2000 terms I cannot have users scrolling through to find what they need. Yes, they can search but . . .

Awesome! Paid you the bucks! Thanks for all your help! You ROCK!

OMGosh! You are SO right! The answer was SO simple! I don’t have to touch the records I’ve prepped, just stuff them into the database and run a permalinks plugin to set all the permalinks! Perfect! Dennis, you are truly brilliant.

I’ve added two records to see how the two things that are missing are formatted. I really don’t like that the encyclopedia records are tied to just one URL that is hard coded in the database. That certainly reduces the flexibility of the plugin.

guid . . . https://www.surveyorslexicon.com/?post_type=encyclopedia&p=133

Correct me if I’m wrong . . . isn’t that something that should be handled by pulling the fields from the database? I’m sure there was logic in why you did it this way, but it’s totally escaping me.

I can make the changes to the sql records to build the guid field for uploading, I’m just not sure that’s the best approach. Thoughts?

Uhm, URL slugs? What are they and where do they go? I did an sql data dump into the table I used . . .

INSERT INTO wp_posts (ID, post_title, post_content, post_date, post_type) VALUES
(1, ‘Aback’, ‘Wind on the wrong side of the sails.’, ‘2021-03-26 01:01:01’, ‘encyclopedia’),
etc.

If there’s another field I need to populate I wasn’t aware. I’ll do a little research to see if I can figure out what I’m missing. I *really* appreciate your help.

Thanks for that tip. You’re right, it was a theme issue. I switched themes and it’s gone.

I still have the remaining issue. Here’s what I have in the left sidebar widget.

Encyclopedia Search widget
Encyclopedia Entries widget

You told me what’s wrong you didn’t tell me how to fix it. Which widget do I use to list the terms that will allow the terms to show up singly when clicked? Where am I going wrong?

And interestingly enough, when I use the sidebar search function, I get an additional search bar on the page itself. Help!

All the records are now formatted for dumping in the posts table. Color me a happy person.