Zotpress 6.0: Feedback

The ‘Limit’ option does not work any longer. I have a couple of places where I want to list just the top 5 most recent publications, but it now lists all of them as you scroll down. See here for example on the frontpage https://heliconius.zoo.cam.ac.uk
The code is
[zotpress style=”nature” sortby=”date” order=”DESC” limit=”5″]
but the list doesn’t stop at 5

On certain posts, my references are not displayed anymore since the update.
Everything works as expected (all references present) on the backend and in a few other posts.

Maybe you can take a quick look?
https://www.sebastianhaas.at/loopback-angularjs-authentication-solution/

I don’t see any JS erros ??

Thanks for your awesome work anyway!

@sebastianhaas Can you post an example of a shortcode that isn’t working?

@cjiggins I’ll look into this on the weekend.

I used
[zotpressInText item="{5PSSTN2C}" format="%num%" brackets="yes"]
for inline elements and
[zotpressInTextBib style="ieee-with-url" sort="ASC"]
for the bibliography.

@cjiggins & @sebastianhaas Fixed both for the next release. Thanks for the finds and apologies!

Thank you very much Katie!
I really appreciate your work and especially love the new auto-update functionality.

Thank you ?? Me too.

Hi Katie,

Since updating to version 6.0.1 the [ZotpressLib] shortcode does not work as intended: I do list my library with a searchbar by tags, and while one word tags do work, two word tags (most of mine) do not render any results:

[zotpressLib userid="1246567" sortby="author" order="asc" type="searchbar" minlength="3" searchby="tags" style="entomological-society-of-america" showtags="no" maxresults="100" maxperpage="25"]

Plus “sortby” and “order” parameters do not work in this shortcode either.

You can test this functionality in the page https://opistobranquis.info/en/0W2RR
You type “Tritonia” and you obtain an unsorted list of references.
You type “Tritonia striata” and you obtain “No items found” message.

Any ideas?

For your information I do widely use the same parameters (tags, sortby and order) in the [zotpress] shortcode, and they work just fine.

I find the new version a bit slower than previous versions, but they no longer delay the page load process, as they load and show after the page is displayed, I supose by using Ajax (fine for me).

Thank you very much for your work and dedication.

@miquel Will be looking into this soon. Thanks for reporting!

Hi Kate

I want to know how can I have subfolders included in the widget, it seems that either I have the whole biblio or any top folders. I tried separating folders codes with commas, but it does not seem to work. The widget can be seen here.

Many thanks for the great plugin!

Best
Paolo

@miquel Multiple term tags and sort/order will be working in 6.0.2.

@paolo A list of collection folders (subfolders or top level) should work. I think you’ll need to contact me with your API id and key and the item keys for the collections you’re trying to display: https://katieseaborn.com/contact

Sorry – I’ve observed what I think to be another bug. It has to do with tags. We had it worked out to where I was displaying a bibliography filtered by a couple of tags. This is the original short code:

[zotpress userid=”173663″ tags=”legal,NEWS” inclusive=”no” style=”default” sortby=”title” notes=”yes” abstract=”no” link=”yes”]

It is now seeming that only the first tag is being used.

That said, I am using the shortcode with the context of the TablePress plugin to create a table with three shortcodes in lieu of one long list. I’ve tried to take the shortcode out of the table to see if the two plugin’s were not playing together, but I’m still not getting the same results as before.

Hi Katie,

Multiple term tags and sort order work just fine now (version 6.0.2) Thank you very much !

However, there is another difference between [zotpress] and [zotpresslib] shortcodes. When I search for “Doto koenneckeri” tag in both shortcodes, they render a different ammount of records, 56 for [zotpress] (without paging) and 50 for [zotpresslib] (with paging) but the second page with the 6 last results does not show up.

[zotpressLib userid="1246567" sortby="author" order="asc" type="searchbar" minlength="3" searchby="tags" style="entomological-society-of-america" showtags="no" maxresults="500" maxperpage="50"]

Could there be a problem on the second page if there are only two pages of results?

Also, I read in the help that “maxresults” parameter is limited to 100 results, can this parameter be overridden? (for instance with value 0 meaning no limit).

Thank you in advance !

Greetings,

Fantastic plugin! I just updated to 6.02. Having the following problems:

1. Some items never seem to load.
2. Formatting errors. For example, et al. used when only single author; “( )” appearing between multiple citations, when only semicolon should be used. E.g., (Skinner, 1958, 1968), McRae, 2013).

See this: https://www.markgarrison.net/archives/3379

Here’s a pattern that I just noticed: the items that are not loading in the body of the article are all just references to page numbers, using format function.

[zotpressInText item=”{TETFSCAZ}” userid=”358294″ format=”(p. 7)”]

This worked fine in previous versions (prior to 6.0).

Also note that I’m using a footnote plugin:

https://www.elvery.net/drzax/more-things/wordpress-footnotes-plugin/