Shortcode collection_id not working on posts

Not sure, but you may need to manually select the custom post type on the Options page — have you checked there?

I will look – thanks for the quick reply.

If you are referring to the zotpress options page I have it set to post, page and nav menu items.

Is your custom post type listed there? If you check it, it should work.

I must be misunderstanding. I have no “custom” post type listed in the zotpress options.Maybe I am looking in the wrong place? I would attach a screenshot, but that is not an option. I can make a video of the process I go through, and attach a link to that, if that helps.

Is there another section that has the custom post type option?

I think I might be misunderstanding. Were you using a custom post type, or did you convert from basic pages to posts?

I used ptypeconverter plugin to convert from basic pages to posts.

It’s odd that it’s working on pages but not posts. Maybe try deactivating all plugins except Zotpress and see if it works? If it does, it’s a plugin conflict. If not, it could be the theme, and you could try activating another theme and seeing if it works.

Will try tomorrow. Thanks.

I think found the problem. When I disable all plugins except zotpress, it still doesn’t display correctly. When I change the theme from customizr to a wpstart it still wasn’t working. When I access the page directly (like https://thomaszuckerscharff.com/2016/05/27/cryptolocker-3252/) it works with either theme. When I access the page through the page created by Multi-Column Tag Map, the URL is different (https://thomaszuckerscharff.com/tag/cryptolocker/) and it does not display anything.

Is it not showing the library because it is not showing the page or because of the “tag” in between, or both?

It looks like if I go to the link from the MC Tag Map page and click the name of the file it takes me to the correct page. The links on the original page are only links to “Tag” pages and not the real page.

I’m afraid this sounds like a plugin conflict. I think your plugin isn’t loading the necessary Zotpress files. One work around is to include the required Zotpress files in your theme so they show up on every page — can you try that?

You have gone beyond my knowledge. Although I have no trouble doing this given the instructions, it would seem that when the theme updates it would have to be redone. If my understanding is correct of WP one could use a child theme that would not change?

Yes, that’s correct. I believe there’s even a plugin that will generate a child theme for you given an existing theme.

I have a plugin called Childify me which creates a child theme from the theme customizer panel, although I am not sure non loading of files is the problem. In playing with MC Tag Map shortcodes, I have discovered a way to get only certain post types to display, but they display still with the path of ../tag/<tagname>/, like ../tag/maktub/. There is no page at that URL, the actual page can be accessed by entering ../ransomware/maktub/. I can’t get the plugin to point to the ransomware directory instead of the tag directory.

If I wanted to go about doing what you say, how would I incorporate the files you mentioned into a child theme?