AZ-Order

IvDimova   February 15, 2013   15 Comments on AZ-Order

Few days ago I uploaded a new plugin at WordPress.org repo. It is called AZ-Order and allows you to display your posts in alphabetical order with a simple shortcode [azsampcode] (I will change this shortcode to [azorder] in the next version) There is also a plugin settings page where you can specify custom post type which you want to display. As I explained in the plugin’s description you must be sure that your database is using the right collation for your language, otherwise there is a chance for errors and wrong letters order.

Below is posted a screenshot of example how it is working on my personal blog, you can see that the latin and cyrillic alphabets are ordered one after other in that case.

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Here is a link to AZ-Order plugin in WordPress.org: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/az-order/

Hope that this can be useful for some of you!

Please let me know if you have an idea for new features that I can add. For now  I am planning to create settings option for user to choose a category or tag and also some css to display the letter menu more accurate.

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15 thoughts on “AZ-Order

  1. Dee

    Hi.
    Thank you for making this plugin. Being a newbie, I’m not quite sure how to use it properly.

    I need posts from one of my categories to appear in the A to Z order. So, should i type “mycategoryname” in the post type in the AtoZ admin page?

    Appreciate your time!
    D

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    1. cleo Post author

      Hi,
      This option is still not available but I am planning to commit the new version tomorrow with option for this. If you still have no solution you can check for the update.
      Hope that this helps!

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  2. Dee

    Thank you for the update. It works well.
    I have just added some code to your azpost file to get the posts arranged in 4 columns.

    Hope this is useful to you:

    if($first_letter !=$current){
    $azlist .=”$first_letter\n”;
    $aznav .=”$first_letter“;
    $current = $first_letter;

    }?>

    <?php $url = get_permalink();
    $azlist .="“;
    $azlist .=get_the_title().”
    “;
    endwhile;
    }

    echo ”. $aznav . “”. $azlist . “”; ?>

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  3. Dee

    Sorry for spamming.. but the style code is not showing in my previous comments. Let me know if you’d like me to mail it to you.

    Cheers
    D

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  4. brett

    so i am trying to use this as well. i got thrown into the position to maintain our company’s website and i know just the VERY BASICS. i contacted the “web team” that set up our site and they also can not figure out how to use this.

    below is a link to a page/ catagory that i would need to use this plugin and i can not figure out how to make it work.

    http://www.ddswholesale.com/category/asanti-forged

    any help would be great

    thanks
    brett

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  5. cleo Post author

    You can’t sort the category archive page with the plugin, you can do that on a page created for that purpose where you need to add a short code like that: [az-order].

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  6. cleo Post author

    You mean to work on the category archive page? I suggest your web team to just create a new category template and list there the posts the way that you need. Good luck!

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