odrum

Brilliant, it’s working. As always you’re a superstar Daniel!

There’s some random names don’t work as they have multiple words that aren’t hyphenated eg. ‘Arts, Zaha Hadid at the Royal’, but they’ll have to stay as they are.

thank you so much, it’s hugely appreciated. M

The a-z-listing.php in the plugin folder?

Had to use this as there’s a weird block on wpbin.io site:
https://pastebin.com/0pNmEuMf

Hope this is what you’re after.
M

add_filter( ‘a_z_listing_item_indices’, ‘my_a_z_index_filter’, 10, 3 );

function my_a_z_index_filter( $indices, $item, $item_type ) {
// make sure we’re filtering the right post type
if ( ‘post’ === get_post_type( $item ) ) {
// pull the title and get the first letter of the second word
$full_name = explode( ‘ ‘, $item->post_title );

// the last word is in the last element of $title_parts so check it is there
$last_name = array_pop( $full_name );

// ensure we actually found a last name
if ( $last_name ) {
// cut the first letter out for our index
$index = substr( $last_name, 0, 1 );

// set up a new empty array
$indices = array();

// only the first names are left in $full_name. Join them together again
$first_names = join( ‘ ‘, $full_name );

// Now put the last name first and separate with a comma+space from the first names
$formatted_name = “{$last_name}, {$first_names}”;

// add the new name associated with the item into the new array we created
$indices[ $index ][] = array(
‘title’ => $formatted_name,
‘item’ => $item,
);

// return a new array with our new index letter instead of the
// indices already discovered by the plugin
return $indices;
}
}

// if we get here we didn’t override the indices so return
// those already discovered.
return $indices;
}

Hi Daniel,
Thanks for getting back to me.

Removing the customised .php in the child theme remedies the links going nowhere. BUT… you kindly wrote code for me to hook the surname instead of the first name and removing that file buggers that up.

The live site now has a no column list that works but alphabetically lists from the first name. I have a staging copy of the site that has the a-z by surname and in (squashed) columns but the links don’t work.

Does that make sense? I know you are busy but help appreciated!
thanks,
Morven

You’ll be very pleased to know that all is good with the latest update 🙂 Many thanks 🙂 M

GENIUS…

You have been unbelievable with the amount of help you’ve given me in sticking with this, thank you so much!
Morven

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