tzucker on "[Plugin: Zotpress] Shortcode collection_id not working on posts"

I started using zotpress and had no difficulty, until I wanted to change the way the various pages I created were displayed. Each page was a library of web citations for a specific ransomware variant. I wanted each page categorized and automatically alphabetized. It seemed the only way to do this was to convert all my pages about ransomware variants to posts. I did this using the ptypeconverter plugin. ow I needed a navigation method - I found MC Tag Map. So to create new posts I do the following:

1. Navigate to Zotero.org
2. Sign in
3. Click on any library group (folder)
4. Right click on the folder name at top and copy location
5. Sign in to my wordpress.org site
6. Create new post
7. Enter name of post
8. Use shortcode [zotpress collection_id=”<code from Zotero.org>”]
9. Categorize post
10. Add tag to post (same as name) (uses Multi-Column Tag Map plugin)
11. Hide post from appearing on front page (using WP Hide Post plugin)

Then I publish. The post is blank - no gear tuing at all. The same code on pages seems to work fine. New posts also do not work. New Pages do work (just tried one).

https://wordpress.org/plugins/zotpress/

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 http://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 (http://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.