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Just wanted to get back to you – it’s working!! I am not exactly sure what I did to make it work, but I know the following:

I deactivated all plugins, but was still getting an error from Acurax’s Floating Social Media Icons plugin (paid). I ended up deleting it.

I converted all relevant posts to a custom post type of ransomware (created using CPT and converted using ptypeconverter). I set the Multicolumn Tag Map shortcode to show_posts=”yes” post_type=”ransomware”.

I tried the pages in question again and they worked. The only thing I can think of is that the Acurax plugin was conflicting. I’ve been told that the paid plugins are the worst coded.

Thank you!!!!!! That did it for me as well.

I’ve disabled all plugins except backupbuddy, isync from ithemes (for backupbuddy), mc tag map (on wifes site), wp hide post (on wifes site). I even deleted one paid plugin that was showing an injection error. I still can’t get it to display the same way it does on her site. Time to try the theme she uses…

Yes, looking into it.

something is weird here. I just tried this plugin on my wife’s blog and it works fine. Time to start looking for plugin conflicts.

something is weird here. I just tried this plugin on my wife’s blog and it works fine. Time to start looking for plugin conflicts.

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?

@mhairilongmuir,

Did you get it to work? I still can’t get my CPT to work with this plugin. Now it doesn’t even click through.

from_category is also helpful

also try changing the permalinks category or tag base. Not usre if this helps – it didn’t help me but it did something and was suggested my another wp guru on a forum I frequent.

[mctagmap columns=”5″ hide=”yes” num_show=”5″ more=”more ?” toggle=”? less” show_empty=”yes” name_divider=”|” descriptions=”yes” width=”150″ equal=”yes” manual=”” basic =”no” basic_heading=”yes” show_navigation=”yes” taxonomy=”ransomware”]

@mhairilongmuir,

If you figure this out let me know. I got to the taxonomy point and now with the following code even the one custom post, of type ransomware and taxonomy ransomware (page labeled maktub), doesn’t show up. The ones that do point to a page like I linked to above, that doesn’t exist. So how to you get a achelousaurus page to exist in say “…/dinosaur/achelousaurus/” (I assume it would have to be something like default.htm)?

I was fooling around and think I found a way. use the taxonomy=”dinosaur” tag in the shortcode. Mine is not currently working, but it links to https://thomaszuckerscharff.com/ransomware/aga/ if I use taxonomy=”ransomware” and the list points to aga. The problem is there is no page (I get a page not found error). One thing at a time …

Could be. I a not adept enough at coding to know. I will ask my son (my WP guru).

I created a custom post type of ransomware and tried

show_ransomware=”yes” show_posts=”no” show_pages=”no”

and

show_ransomware=”yes” show_pages=”no”

Both show the same thing and in neither case does it go directly to the page, but rather the tag page.