Five Template and Lazy Summary Plugin

Site URL: https://www.petalumapioneers.org/

Hi Circle folks, @michaeleparkour

I've got a two tiered question here relating to summary blocks and the Five template. 

I built this site, https://www.petalumapioneers.org back in 2017 and its got a ton of entries from two blogs, and one's posts use summary blocks to pull in other's excerpts (thumbnail, title and category) via certain categories. 

Meaning this blog: https://www.petalumapioneers.org/archive-by-photographer uses summary blocks to pull in all photos by certain photographers, via categories from this blog: https://www.petalumapioneers.org/archive-by-sitter

I also set up both blogs to have entries display in alphabetical order by using the convoluted method of entering the last ones first and/or changing the published date so they’ll display properly.

And it's all worked fine, however once new posts were added recently to: https://www.petalumapioneers.org/archive-by-sitter using the same methodology, the summary block now isn't pulling in the newest posts, categorized as George Ross into the corresponding post about him here:

https://www.petalumapioneers.org/archive-by-photographer/2017/4/4/george-ross-elon-d-ormsby

I just added the amazing Admin UI Tweaks: https://www.squarewebsites.org/squarespace-plugins/squarespace-admin-ui-tweaks and Lazy Summaries plugin: https://www.squarewebsites.org/squarespace-plugins/lazy-summaries and it's working as far as getting around the limit of 30 items, but oddly it's not working when set to sort alphabetically as you can see here:

https://www.petalumapioneers.org/test-blog-summary

Pwd: george

That page is pulling from a test blog I set up with items that have titles in alphabetical order and it's pulling in the same summary block with the same criterion I mentioned above for the photographer George Ross, but it's missing this entry with the category George Ross:

https://www.petalumapioneers.org/archive-by-sitter/2017/4/10/unidentified-oval-bust-portrait

And the same situation is true for this new entry of a photo taken by the photographer John Quincy Reed:

https://www.petalumapioneers.org/archive-by-sitter/2017/4/10/oval-bust-portrait-of-a-woman-with-color-applied-to-her-cheeks

The post has the correct category, but on the photographer’s post this newest photo isn’t showing in the summary block which is configured to pull in all posts categorized as John Q. Reed:

https://www.petalumapioneers.org/archive-by-photographer/2017/4/5/john-quincy-reed

So, my questions are, does anyone believe or know that this may be an issue with the fact that the Five template is no longer available or supported and is there a better way to achieve the desired results in 7.1, or even in say Brine in 7? 

Ideally I'd like to encourage the client to upgrade to 7.1 and I'm imagining we could use perhaps use gallery sections to display the photos and summary blocks to display the photographer posts with Universal Filter: https://www.squarewebsites.org/squarespace-plugins/universal-filter to allow sorting and alphabetical display, or something like that?

Lastly has anyone used Squarewebsites’ Tools Extension PRO:

https://www.squarewebsites.org/squarespacewebsites-tools-extension-pro

to export/import an older Squarespace site such as this from 7 to 7.1 and do you think it would work for this enormous, crazy site?

Thanks so much for hopefully taking a look!

Martin

Hi,

You should contact Michael via contact form in his site

On 9/24/2021 at 1:03 AM, tuanphan said:

Hi,

You should contact Michael via contact form in his site

Thanks Tuan, and thanks again for your help with michealinzlicht.com last week!

I've reached out to Michael on his Squarewebsites Slack channel.

Okay I'm going to answer my own question here, thanks to the hawkeye of @michaeleparkour it turns out I forgot to add the Lazy Summaries script, but had included the init, so the plugin was half working. Arrgggh! A lesson in being tired and not triple checking the Code Injection area!

Everything's working perfectly now, so thanks @michaeleparkour and  @tuanphan!!