I am using Zotpress to retrieve a set of items and display them on a web site with a custom style. How do I get Zotero to use the sort order specified in the style?

I have set up the style to sort on the Zotero “Extra” field since that appears in all the Zotero item types. The “Extra” field is mapped to the CSL “note” variable, so the style (in theory) sorts on that. I’m assuming that the style then serves the items in that order. If so, then all I need is to be able to tell Zotero to display them in the order it receives them.

I have talked with Katie Seaborn, the author of Zotpress, but she didn't know how to accomplish this. She thought that Zotero retrieved the items in whatever order it does regardless. But that doesn't make much sense. What's the point of a CSL sort specification if it can't be used? While I appreciate that CSL and Zotero are - as the CSL site puts it - independent open source projects - there is also a long and close connection between the two, as the site also notes.

Can anyone help?

Here’s the link to the CSL style file:

http://www.riverbendadvisors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/site-resource-list-new.csl


Here’s a test page using this style:

https://www.riverbendadvisors.com/blog/zotpress-other/


Here’s the zotpress shortcode used on the page:

[zotpress collection=”F6X6F522″ tags=”test” showtags=”no” urlwrap=”title” abstract=”yes” style=”http://www.riverbendadvisors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/site-resource-list-new.csl” highlight:”Abstract” ]


And here's a link to the conversation with Katie in the Zotpress forum on wordpress.org:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-style-specified-sort-order-in-shortcode/#post-11807020

Thanks!