Book Reviews 2

Here is the same index, but with a third level of detail and couple of different styling options added. Excerpts from the posts have been added as descriptions for each entry. The two additional options are

  • Use customized stylesheets: allowing the use of customized CSS styles for the index.
  • Enable CSS striping: used to add alternating styling for entries in the index.

Then there was a fair amount of tinkering with the CSS in the settings page to get the look you can see below (I’m not exactly an expert in CSS!).  This is just one example that shows the sort of styling you can accomplish with a bit of effort.

NOTE: I should warn you at this point that I will be rewriting the HTML/CSS generating code for the plugin sometime in the next two or three months, to get rid of the quirks and make it much easier for people to modify.  So if you decide to customize an index’s stylesheet right now, be warned that you will probably have to make some changes when I make the changes.  But don’t let that put you off having a go with AZIndex, and I will give plenty of warning before that happens.

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  • A

  • Albom, Mitch The Five People You Meet in Heaven: A Novel In heaven, life is explained by five people.

  • B

  • Baldacci, David Split Second Two disgraced Secret Service agents unravel a murder mystery.
  • Brown, Dan Angels & Demons Centuries-old organization launches vendetta against Catholic Church. Deception Point Uncovering evidence of scientific trickery, a dangerous deception. Digital Fortress Mathematician must break a complex code for the National Security Agency. The Da Vinci Code Murder clues are left inside Leonardo Da Vinci art at the Louvre.
  • Brown, Sandra Hello, Darkness Man threatens the life of a popular radio disk jockey.

  • C

  • Caldwel, Ian & Thomason, Dustin The Rule of Four Two Ivy Leaguers obsessively research renowned text and a researcher's murder.
  • Clancy, Tom The Teeth of the Tiger Old rules no longer apply in a the new world where anyone can be a terrorist.
  • Cornwell, Patricia Blow Fly Wolfman awaits Kay Scarpetta. Trace Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond to work on a perplexing crime.
  • Coulter, Catherine Blindside Agents race to find a kidnapped boy.

  • E

  • Eugenides, Jeffrey Middlesex To understand why she isn't like other girls, Calliope uncovers family secret. Pulitzer winner.
  • Evanovich, Janet Ten Big Ones Mystery: Stephanie Plum the bounty hunter becomes the target of a gang.

  • F

  • Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain Love story and account of a man's journey home during the Civil War. National Book Award; 2003 movie.

  • G

  • Garcia Merquez, Gabriel One Hundred Years of Solitude Rise and fall of a mythical Latin American town and family. Oprah's Book Club 2004?month; Nobel Prize in 1982.
  • Grisham, John Bleachers Former high school quarterback pays respects to his coach. Skipping Christmas Tax accountant persuades his wife to skip Christmas; not Grisham's usual legal thriller. Basis of movie Christmas With the Kranks. The King of Torts Young lawyer is nearly destroyed by chance to make millions. The Last Juror Convicted murderer seeks revenge against his jurors.

  • H

  • Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Teen with Asperger's syndrome turns to Sherlock Holmes for inspiration in tracking down a poodle's killer.
  • Hiaasen, Carl Skinny Dip Wife torments her murderous husband after he thinks she's dead.
  • Higgins Clark, Mary The Second Time Around Head of medical company disappears.
  • Hoag, Tami Dark Horse Fate of a young woman rests in the hands of an ex-cop.
  • Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner Friendship of a wealthy boy and his father's servant in Afghanistan.

  • K

  • King, Stephen The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah Sixth novel in Dark Tower series. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower Roland Deschain's relentless quest for Dark Tower ends.
  • Koontz, Dean The Face Hollywood star gets bizarre, threatening messages.

  • L

  • Lahaye Tim, & Jenkins, Jerry B. Glorious Appearing (Subtitle: The Final Chapter of Those Left Behind.)
  • Landvik, Lorna Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons Neighborhood club becomes a lifeline over the years.

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  • Joel said:

    June 4, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    FANTASTIC!

    Love it, just have one small question. I am using AZIndex to display all of my tags broken out alphabetically. I have noticed that if I choose ‘Tags’ from the Index Headings dropdown, it displays multiples of the same tag depending how many posts that tag is attached to – how do I get it to only list one instance of a tag that appears on multiple posts?

    Many thanks

    Joel

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    June 5, 2009 at 2:13 pm

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  • language learning software said:

    June 7, 2009 at 10:34 am

    You have a great blog here and it is Nice to read some well written posts that have some relevancy…keep up the good work ;)

  • how to learn a language said:

    June 7, 2009 at 10:41 am

    Finally someone who can write a good blog ! . This is the kind of information that is useful to those want to increase their SERP’s. I loved your post and will be telling others about it. Subscribing to your RSS feed now. Thanks

  • AZIndex for WordPress Tweaking Themes the Plugin Way | Weak Bladder said:

    June 7, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    [...] AZIndex for WordPress Tweaking Themes the Plugin Way Posted by root 4 hours ago (http://azindex.englishmike.net) If you want you can edit the information in the plugin comment by clicking the edit running weight loss said may 14 2009 at 12 34 am middot dheeraj hi i was trying to create an index where all powered by wordpress atahualpa Discuss  |  Bury |  News | AZIndex for WordPress Tweaking Themes the Plugin Way [...]

  • Alharary said:

    June 11, 2009 at 8:44 am

    very intresting than you very much

  • Txus said:

    June 11, 2009 at 10:24 am

    AZIndexes work great! But I have a question, is there any way to combine a link preview with AZIndexes? I mean, you are in the index page, you hover the link in the indez page, and a snapshot-like appears with a thumbnail of the page or the entry. AZIndexes can do that?

  • Carol Southard said:

    June 11, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    I am using Wordpress 2.8 and the plugin has stopped working and all I am seeing on the Index Page is BLANK. I have tried deactivating uninstalling and deleting everything and also reinstalling it and can’t get it to work again… is there some help out there? See what I mean at:
    http://www.commercialusegraphics.com/site-index/

  • George said:

    June 12, 2009 at 6:29 am

    The same with me. After I upgraded to Wordpress 2.8 AZIndex gives a blank page. Deactivated, Deleted, Reinstalled – nothing worked. You can see it at http://www.greecetravelblog.com/blog/?page_id=828

    • Don Schaal said:

      June 12, 2009 at 3:43 pm

      After upgrading to 2.8, I get the following error message with az-index:
      Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_strtoupper() in /home/donsinno/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/azindex/az-index-cache.php on line 863
      Hope there is a fix for this soon, as I have no index

    • Israel said:

      June 18, 2009 at 4:38 pm

      We get the same thing. Blank page, and the footer code is broken. Had to revert home page to not using static with azindex and instead just go blog style for now until azindex compatibility with 2.8 upgrade is fixed.

  • anthony said:

    June 23, 2009 at 1:22 am

    Hi Mike,
    Thank you very much for the great plugin!
    I want to have index based on tags and categories, for example if I have three categories:

    asked questions
    basic
    zoo

    I want it display such as
    A asked questions
    B basic
    Z zooe
    when visitors click on the link, they go to the link of that specific category. It works similar for the tags.

    Is there any possiblity of AZIndex to do that? If not, when do you update this feature?
    Thanks!
    - Anthony -

  • Farnoosh Brock said:

    June 23, 2009 at 11:45 am

    Hello,
    I just love this Plugin – It’s smart and well-built. Just set it up and love your tutorial on AZIndex plugin page. Thank you so much.

    Followed your instructions on how to set up the alphabet index to appear up top and at the bottom, and mine still does not appear at the bottom yet after several refresh:
    http://www.prolificliving.com/blog/prolific-living-blog-index/

    I checked both of these boxes as per your instructions:
    x Display page links above the index (default)
    x Display page links below the index

    Any ideas please?

    Thank you,
    Farnoosh

  • Israel said:

    June 25, 2009 at 11:54 am

    It appears AZ Index is not compatible with Wordpress 2.8.

    • Farnoosh Brock said:

      June 25, 2009 at 7:51 pm

      Not sure what you mean but it seems to be fine for me, except for the minor detail above in my original comment. I have been using it for 4 days now, actively, and with no problem.
      Here is one of my indices if you were interested.
      http://www.prolificliving.com/blog/prolific-living-blog-index/
      What is the problem?
      Thanks,
      Farnoosh

    • Israel said:

      June 30, 2009 at 12:11 pm

      I figured it out. I did a fresh install on my host, bare bones, plus az, and it still broke the page. So I went to another host, did fresh install, import of my posts, and az install and setup, and it worked. The difference? My new host has php5, whereas my other host runs PHP version 4.4.9. I think then it can be confirmed that azindex does not work with PHP version 4.4.9 at the very least, but certainly does not work with php 4.4.9 and WP 2.8. It will however work with WP 2.8 on a host running php5 or higher.

  • senshi said:

    June 26, 2009 at 5:53 am

    Hi, I’m using that index at my Website. Realy great plugin, thank you.
    I just wanted to ask, if it’s possible to make somehow an index for NextGenGallery?

  • AJ said:

    June 28, 2009 at 11:45 pm

    Something tells me this comment might be spam…..

  • Carol Southard said:

    July 1, 2009 at 9:57 am

    Thanks Israel!! Your idea worked for me! I did not know what I was doing but I went into my host server application (netfirms)and checked on my php and it was set to php4. I checked and saw that I could change it to PHP 5 and then did a fresh install of the plugin and it is now working correctly with wordpress 2.8!! You can see for yourself at: http://www.commercialusegraphics.com/index/

  • Martin Shortpants said:

    July 1, 2009 at 10:03 pm

    Does anyone know if there is a conflict with Page indexing using AZ with either the Atahualpa theme or any specific plugins? I’m using GD Pages, WP Post-Sorting, and Page Lists Plus but am loathe to deactivate them for fear of loosing my tweaks.

    AZ works perfectly on Post indexes but won’t display any pages, even when I set it to display only pages — in which case it displays nothing at all .

    My site is page-based more than posts as the content is “timeless” but there is going to be a lot of it so a page title index would be sweet.

  • Sam said:

    July 4, 2009 at 8:52 am

    You are correct. Thanks for this great plugin, look forward to the updates… no span catching plugins installed? Hmm try Akismet found it works best.

  • LJ said:

    July 4, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    I am having the same error problem:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_strtoupper() in /home/websitename/public_html/wp-content/plugins/azindex/az-index-cache.php on line 863

    English Mike, can you please help?

    As with the others, this happened when I upgraded to 2.8. I’m already running php 5 so that wasn’t a solution for me.

    Help…pretty please?!

  • George said:

    July 5, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    I use php5 and the plugin doesn’t work

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