By default this shortcode will display the list of all public entries and the private entries if the user is logged into WordPress using the activated template for the “All” template type.
[connections] |
One of the great strengths of Connections is the ability to customize the results to be displayed with a large array of shortcode attributes. A complete list of these options follow.
NOTE:
Multiple short attributes are added to the same Connections shortcode. You do not add the Connections shortcode to the page multiple times with different attributes. Here’s an example of using multiple attributes with the Connections shortcode:
[connections category='7' show_alphaindex='true' repeat_alphaindex='true' width='500'] |
- id
- category
- category_in
- exclude_category
- category_name
- wp_current_category
- private_override
- public_override
- show_alphaindex
- repeat_alphaindex
- show_alphahead
- list_type
- template
- order_by
- width
- filters
- last_name
- group_name
- title
- organization
- department
- city
- state
- zip_code
- country
- Geo Location
Hi, Great looking plugin! I’ve added the shortcode to this page http://www.socialmediabusinessboosters.com/directory however it isn’t displaying the directory. I made sure to post it in the HTML section and not the visual editor. – Mike
@Mike R
Odd, I have never seen that before. Do other shortcodes work with your theme?
I think you put the [connections] tab in the page title… I don’t think it will work there. Try putting it in the body of your page/post
Pls provice more information eg what is in you page and setup in CSS …
TT
Hi, Great plugin i love it. can you pls tell me how many entries can be displayed in a single page.I want to display 20 entries. is it possible.
@samuel
The premium templates such as cMap, Market and Tile Plus enable pagination. They all default to 20 entries per page.
Hi, I would just like to ask, Yes, so the default entries per page is 20. But what if i want it like less than 20 or 10 items per page? Is it also possible? How would it be? What will be the shortcode?
Need your help, Thanks alot.
@Jasmin
I assume this question is in reference to one of the premium templates? If it is, you can use the page_limit=20 shortcode option to change the numbers of entries per page.
Any way to disable pagination, for the purpose of printing a directory, for example?
@Jay
For the templates that enable pagination you would add this option to the shortcode:
enable_pagination=’false’
I have used [connections] shortcode in my website, but I can not find a way to show the list to without logged in user. I want to display the list of all public entries to viewer who have not logged in.
Thanks in advance for your help.
@bishwajit
The entries need to be changed so they are set to be ‘Public’. If they are already public, make sure this setting “Allow unregistered visitors and users not logged in to view entries” on the Connections : Settings admin page is checked.
I need to have a search function for my directory. Saw the sample and it looks like I need cMap to do what I want. Will I get “instructions for dummies” on which short code to use to provide the function I want? Thanks for this Plug In. I need more help, though? I have my work posted for now under TEST from the top navigation bar.
@Barbara Loraine
These doc pages are the instructions. What other questions do you have?
One more question. Can I use the directory TWICE on one website, for two separate lists? I want a second, separate directory of restaurants.
@Barbara Loraine
Yes, but only with a few of the premium templates such as cMap, Market and Tile Plus. Here’s a link to a FAQ that explains how:
http://connections-pro.com/faqs/can-i-use-cmap-on-two-different-pages-showing-different-categories-in-the-drop-down/
Is there a way I can make the list only show the ‘current’ category and its children? I can’t get it to not show ‘All categories’ http://www.wijkberaad-vruchtenbuurt.nl/in-de-buurt/aannemers/
@Cynthia
Sorry, the ‘All Categories’ will always be shown, it can not be disabled.
With respect, that’s not the best answer. With all these options (and with such an excellent plugin) i’m surprised you cannot return the current category being read. Rather than displaying all categories the item is in it should show the current category being read by the php.
I’ve tried to create new functions, new shortcodes without success. Surly, this is possible? Some sort of hack?
Thanks
@Graeme
cMap, Market and Tile Plus have the ability to limit the categories to specific root parent and their children. See this FAQ, http://connections-pro.com/faqs/can-i-use-cmap-on-two-different-pages-showing-different-categories-in-the-drop-down/, for cMap. This also works for both the Market and Tile Plus templates. This, however does not remove the ‘All Categories’ options, but the function of that option does change. It’ll reset the list to the root parent categories that were set in the shortcode. Without presenting the user with that option you give them now way to get back to where they started, you’d be forcing them to always filter by one of the other categories. However if you really want to remove it, it can be done by commenting out a single line in the template’s functions.php file. Which line will very depending on the template but a quick search within the file will find it very quickly.
I understand the concern about being able to go back, but I’m going to be using the sublists on a couple of different pages, so it would be great to be able to choose which ‘root’ is being used per page. Maybe a future function?
is there a way that users can input their own information for the directory?
@eric
The only current method is Form. Although, this does not link the input to a WP user.
Is there anyway to apply the width shortcode option to the upcoming lists? Also looking to change styling of the upcoming lists. Great plugin!
@Bobby
It’s been awhile since I’ve looked at the Anniversary and Birthday templates, but if I remember correctly, they should always be 100% of the available content width. Do you want them to purposely not fill the width or are they not filling the width?
Hi Steven,
Is there a way to add CAPTCHA or something to the Form plug in so it keeps from turning into a spam farm?
Is the only way to display the list of categories with a premium template? Will the template only be used for the interior content related to Connections? Meaning will it integrate the categories and listings into my existing site template?
Thanks!
@Pete
At this time there is no plan to integrate CAPTCHA. Form does have an antispam measure in place, which so far seems effective. However, there are plans to add additional layers of unobtrusive antispam measures. This is monitored closely on this site. Hundreds comment spam are received daily, so far, not one spam Form submission.
Yes, only the premium templates will include support for user filterable categories.
Sorry, no, the Connections categories are separate from the WordPress categories.
I hope that helps.
I could not get the “biographical info” displayed even with “public” setting. I am using the free version of 0.7.2.6. Do I need to set something up or do I need to upgrade?
@bill
The default template does not show the bio, please try activating the Bio Entry Card template.
Hi,
I want to show a list of people on one page in a category. then when they click on that person it goes to their profile.
How do I do that?
thanks.
Tom
@Tom
Connections does not have a “Profile” page. The next version will support permalinks which will allow you to link to specific entries within the directory.
Hi Steven, when will this version (that allows the “Profile” page) be available? Will it also be available for the free Connections template.. or only for premium templates? I’m planning to use the Profile page to display photos, one video, and reviews for each listing in my directory. Or would you recommend another WordPress plugin that can work with Connections to help me achieve what I’m looking for?
Thx
@Saba
I do not have an eta at this time. The way I plan on implementing this feature is that you will be able to use a mix of templates premium and default. For example, the template activated under the “All” template type will be used for the general list. And the template activated under the “Individual” or “Organization” template type will be used depending on the entry being displayed; if it is an individual or organization.
I hope that helps.
Hi if you selected a category in this site i don’t know why the connections display me the home page.
http://coopsociali.it/site/?page_id=162
Can we help me?
Thanks
@matteo
Yes, I can help. Please see this FAQ for the solution: Why does it go to the home page when I choose a category?
thank you Steven for the fast support.
Have a nice day
Hi All
This plugin is extremly good and we are finding the way to give the category and sub category menu for that …How can we achieve this
Thanx
@Jitender
If I understand correctly — You want the user to be able to filter by category. Is that correct? If yes, then you will need to purchase one of the premium templates such as cMap, Market or Tile Plus.
The photos are no longer showing up. They look like they are trying to load, but the wheel keeps spinning. I think the path to the pictures may be broken. Is there a way to fix this?
@Sarah
The issue is with the theme. Have you recently upgraded it? It is trying to load the following file and initiate it but it can not be found. That error is causing you javascript problems which affects Connections.
../wp-content/themes/LOP/js/easySlider1.5.js
We’re enjoying this plugin, and have been using it for over a year now.
Since some of our members are older and are not comfortable with Internet access or don’t have smart phones when they are out, we would like to be able to extract a printable version of our directory. Do you have any suggestions for how to do this?
@Len
I get this question from time to time, unfortunately, I do not have a solution for this yet.
I saw that you are planning a downloadable PDF module; would it not be possible to paginate this such that individual entries do not span a page break?
@Len
Yes, with the proper print CSS.
Hi Steven
I’m delighted to have found Connections, as it’s exactly what I needed for a national network site for which I’m the volunteer webmaster: http://appreciativeinquiry.com.au
For the Directory on that site, I’ve purchased the Market template and the Form – as well as the CSV import to make it easier to transfer entries that had been in the previous plugin. So far, with a few additions to shortcode, everything works exactly as we want it to, and others in the network have commented on how great it’s looking.
However, there is one thing that isn’t working for some reason. The handful of people who have used the submission form so far have all found the image upload function didn’t work for them. All other entry fields were fine, but the file did not upload. I’ve checked through the support forums and FAQs here as thoroughly as I can, but can’t find a solution. The site doesn’t use any of the ‘known conflicts’ plugins you have listed.
We do have cformsII and uCanPost plugins installed – could either of those be causing an issue? I can’t find any settings for cformsII that might affect just the image upload (and nothing else) for the Forms plugin. However uCanPost does have an admin option to allow people to upload an image with their post – BUT a note in the configuration option says “NOTE: For security reasons, only registered members can upload files:
So I’m wondering if this may be the issue. Unfortunately I don’t have sufficient tech expertise to work out exactly what’s going on.
Any help or advice you can offer will be much appreciated!
Many thanks
Cheers
Sue
Hi again Steven
Apologies for taking up your time with the previous post.
Problem now solved!
I was correct in thinking it must have been caused by one of those two plugins I mentioned. The uCanPost restriction on uploads must have been the issue I think, because after disabling and deleting that plugin the Connections Form worked without a hitch.
I’ve now installed a plugin called User Submitted Posts instead of uCanPost. It’s more basic, with only a text entry option and no WYSIWYG editor – and hasn’t been updated in a very long time. But it will serve the purpose ok, and is compatible with your Form plugin, so that’s great.
Cheers
Sue
@Sue
Good to hear you figured it out. I can’t image how the two plugins would be conflicting.
@Sue
It looks as not using uCanPost is a good thing. Apparently this has security issues.
http://wpsecure.net/2012/01/ucan-post-plugin/
Hi Steven,
Thank you for your fast replies – and yes I was delighted I managed to fix the issue. I’m assuming the conflict was probably because uCanPost only allows uploads from logged in users .. though as the Connections submission is via a completely different form, I’m also not sure why the problem should have occurred.
But, because of the issue, I also learned about uCanPost being vulnerable to security issues. So the conflict turned out to be a Very Good Thing – otherwise I might have gone blithely on without knowing that!
There were no warnings on the web about security when I installed the uCapPost plugin about 12-18 months ago and it was still available in the WordPress repository at that time.
It had been the best option I could find, because it also allowed formatting. Now we’re back to one where submissions are text only with an optional image upload. I have to format each submitted post manually (e.g. insert uploaded image, add sub-headings, bold & italics etc as necessary). More work as webmaster … LOL … but it’s good to know that particular security hole has been closed.
Thanks again! And I must say that I’m loving using Connections! Along with Market, Form, and the CSV import plugin, it’s been a breeze to use and the resulting directory looks great! Have now also purchased the email encryption plugin so folk’s business emails can also be included. Many thanks for such an elegant solution to our directory needs!
Cheers
Sue
I have maybe a stupid question, but I am trying to use the Market template (I just purchased it today) but I want it to show family members as I’m using this for a directory of families for an organization (the pages are set to private). Is there a way to show the names of the family members on this template? Is there a shortcode for that? I did change the photos to be in the logo section. Also, is there a way to turn off the map feature? I am not sure the members want their location mapped out? I didn’t know what template would work best for what I was doing and maybe Market wasn’t the best choice. I want to be able to show the family last name, the names of the family members, and then links to their facebook, blog, ect and even a short bio. For the most part, the Market template works for this except I can’t list out the family members names. Also is there a way to customize the categories on the side?
I decided to show the children names in the bio as this is not needed. The only nice feature about having them listed is that I can keep track of their bdays but at this time, that’s not something we are doing anyway.
@buckfam
Market doesn’t have the function to show the family names, but if you know a little PHP it could easily be added.
The maps can be turned off by adding enable_map=TRUE to the shortcode, like so:
The categories on the side are those that you’ve entered in Connections, you can customize them on the Connections : Categories admin page.
I hope that helps.
Hi Steven,
I’m trying to instal your plugin that seems exactly what I was looking for, but I can’t make it work. I created 2 entries, set them public, put them in a category, then created a page, set it up as connections page, put the short code in it [upcoming_list] and yet it says “No results”.
Do you know why is so ?
Thank you,
Cheers,
Manue
Nevermind, it works now ! Thank you anyway !
@Manue
Sorry for the delay … Sandy negatively impacted me.
I visited the link, seems you’ve figured it out as I see two entries listed on the page.
yes, thank you, I did it. Don’t worry, I saw you had problems with Sandy. I hope everything is ok for you now !
is there a shortcode for me lo list just one profile from the list at any giving page? If a article talk about “DAVID” a code to add david profile at the end of the post… Thanks!
@cylo
Yes, take a look at this shortcode option:
http://connections-pro.com/documentation/plugin/shortcodes/shortcode-connections/id/
Under the features, it lists that a hierarchy view is available. Is there a special short-code I need to use? Currently, all contacts are listed in one long list. Ideally, if the top level categories are shown first, and users can “dig down” from there. Thanks for the help!
@Iportal
Categories are hierarchical, but there is not a hierarchical view. However, several of the premium templates do offer the ability to let the user filter by category. Please take a look at both cMap and Market.
Thank you for the quick reply!
Hi Thank you for a great template/function.
I have the Excerpt template.
And I want to show the Phoner nr, and email and the contact details in the “collapsable”/accordion part of the template Excerpt.
Either in the first part of second, but they keep showing up as non html, all in one line text.
I want to have bold on Email, and Telephone nr.
ANd I have to insert them in Biographical info, I just want the contact details and some text from Bio to be in the “collapsable” content
Correction: http://www.svalner.se/?page_id=20 page where the connection is inserted in.
while I am at it, can I insert some sort of filter on the top of the list; ie: so they can click on “Stockholm” filter and it will only display the people in the Stockholm Office?=
@RZE
Maybe, is “Stockholm Office” a category?
@RZE
I took a look use the link you sent but I can not find on the site where Connections is being used.
hi Steven here is the link. I removed it from the page since it was NOT looking good.
http://www.svalner.se/?page_id=1078
Stockholm for example, is one of the “categories” that I want to have in the “filter” on top.
I would like to display a list of links of all entries in a particular category (in a sidebar throughout a site), with each link going to an individual page for an individual entry.
Is there any way to generate that list via shortcode or does this have to be manually created?
(I see the shortcode for displaying an individual entry.)
Thanks!
@BB
Here’s the link for the docs on the category shortcode:
http://connections-pro.com/documentation/plugin/shortcodes/shortcode-connections/category/
Thanks Steven — that doesn’t really show what I need. I want to choose a single category, and then have the entries in that category listed. (Per your response to my support ticket, I believe I’d need to create a custom template that only lists names and then use that in the sidebar.)
Hello Steven,
I have installed the Connections plugin, I am using the Bio Entry Card, I have entered 23 people. The page view looks great but when I look at the site I get a “no results” message.
I use a password protected site and all of the entries are set to private.
Any hint at what may be going on would be greatly appreciated.
Jeanne
@Jeanne
To see entries that are set as private, you must be a registered WP user logged in to your site and have a role that has permission to view private entries.
So the answer depends on how you’ve password protected your site.
I ended up setting all the entries to public and password protecting access to the page and this worked.
Thanks so much for your prompt response, I truly love this plugin.
J
In cmap template, are you able to display list of departments for example in a list view that can be printable to an employee? I can get the requested information to select department, but I would like it in list view that someone can print out and display at their cubical?
@Brian
Sorry, there’s nothing I have available to do this. I’ve added this to my feature request list.
Hi Steven,
I’m putting in a new instance of connections on a website and the navigation is like
Directory
- clergy
- churches and organisations
On the “Directory” page there will be some blurb and I would like to be able to show just the search function that is an option in the general shortcode.
Is that possible? If so where could I find the shortcode?
Thanks for your great support for connections.
Nick
@Nick
There isn’t a shortcode within Connections to show just a search field. The only real solution would be the Widget Pack. It comes with a search widget that can be placed in the theme’s sidebar.
Hope that helps.
Hi Steven,
Is it possible to put the shortcode multiple times and use the id tag to select the records I want to show, using HTML to put headers between each section. SO it would look like
Management Team
XXX
XXX
XXX
Staff
xxx
xxx
xxx
Thanks
Ignore that – I’ve found the answer is yes.
Hi Steven,
Since upgrading to the latest Connections, I find that no matter what I do, the directory will only show the first 20 entries:
http://orland-chamber.com/directory/
Categories work; pagination does not. I also tried enabling search, which is not working.
What I’m using is [connections show_alphaindex='true' enable_search='true' page_limit=50]
Can you shed any light on this?
Thanks,
Danielle
@Danielle
I’ll be pushing out an update which disables a new feature that causing some users like yourself some trouble. It be version 0.7.3.6, when you see it in you WordPress admin, please update to it. Thanks and apologies for the troubles.
Will do, thanks for the fast response!
Hi
This plugin is awesome! It’s amazing how many unanswered threads there are asking for something like this though – it took me some googling to find it.
It would be really neat if a template could be added (well, just an option added to the existing BIO template) to have a “short info” section where, for example, the photo, name and title are displayed but then a hyperlink option to provide the full bio text. As it stands, my page concists of thousands of characters because to show the bio of each staff member requires either not showing it at all or showing it entirely. Thanks
@TED
First, many thanks!
Sounds like the Excerpt template is exactly what you’re looking for.
…and is there any way to re-order the list? Usually you’d be able to “0″, “1″, “2″ etc to dictate the order of the entries?
@TED
This can be done, here’s the link to the order_by doc page.
Steve
Absoloutely superb! $10 goes to that man! I have downloaded said template and applied it – it is exactly as you stated and just what I needed. Thanks again for your help.
Ted
How to make a selection with the help of (type = “checkbox”) and not by hand every time [connections last_name = 'Smith']?
@Alex
Sorry, there currently is not way a way to select last name by check box.
Tell me then, how to implement a user interface for information retrieval.
@Alex
You would have to write PHP code to implement this. This is not something I can just tell you how to do, sorry.
I’ve enabled the “Require registered users to login before showing the directory” option. But the message that’s supposed to appear for people not logged in has disappeared. They now see “No Results” rather that the text I have added to the alternate message window. Do you have any idea what’s going wrong or how to fix this?
@Chuck Henebry
On the Connections : Settings admin page under the General tab, do you have either of the shortcode override option checked? If you do, uncheck them.
Ah! Yes, now it works. Thing is, I’d like to have two different connections pages on our site: one for logged-in members that shows phone & email for all leaders and another for non-members that shows just email for certain key leaders.
So I set up two different Connections pages, each using a different template and I turned on the “Enable public_override” so that the email-only list could be visible to non-members.
Thing is, I’d like to add a prompt on the phone page to inform members who aren’t logged in that they need to log in to see the phone list. I gather from your response that “the message for site visitors” functionality doesn’t work if you have the public_override function checked. I guess I’ll have to come up with some kind of workaround—but if you have ideas, I’d love to hear them.
Thanks for your prompt response!
@Chuck Henebry
What not use a single page for Connections? I’m assuming members require login and non-members do not, correct? On entries that you need to keep the phone and email only to members, set those [the phone number and email, not the entire entry] to private. Then only logged in member will be able to view those details while non-logged non-member will not be able to. I hope that makes sense. Connections is quite flexible when it comes to viewing permissions which can make it difficult.
Have been on vacation and now back to getting Connections to work as our church directory. On March 6th I purchased the Slim, ROT13 & Widget Pack thinking this would do the trick for what we want. Am just beginning to populate the directory and I created 3 individual entries then tied two of them together as a family. Now my directory gives 5 entries (3 individual and 2 family). How do I get this directory to only show the Family name with the drop down for more information? Please review: http://www.liveoakchurchofchrist.com/connections.jpg to see what I mean
My shortcode is: [connections category='3,2,1' show_alphaindex='true' repeat_alphaindex='true' width='500']
[connections list_type='family']
As soon as I can figure this out and finish getting all the information in then I will tackle the Widget portion of my plan.
Thanks Steve,
Patsy
@Patsy
You need to use this shortcode:
But you’ll need to upgrade to the latest version of Slim, which is a free update and can be downloaded from your purchase history.
Hope that helps get you on your way.
I can go into my account and see my history but it states nothing about the product upgrades. Went to Home>Templates>Slim but couldn’t tell how to download the upgrade.
Sorry to be dense, but where to I find the SLIM upgrade?
Patsy
@Patsy
The link in your purchase history will always contain the latest version. Hope that helps.
Went to my Purchase History and downloaded SLIM then opened up my WordPress Dashboard. Under Connections selected Templates and uploaded the zip file there. Then I get a message “Slim Template can not be found”. What am I missing?
Patsu
@Patsy
Here’s the link to the template installation instructions. Thew short version is that you need to install the template as plugin, not by using the legacy template installer.
Hi,
I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this. I am just wondering is there an option to set the ‘View All’ setting view as the default one rather than showing all the details?
Thanks.
@kar123
You could activate the Names template under the “All” template type and under both the “Individual” and “Organization” template types activate and alternative template to be displayed when those entry types are shown. You’ll just have to make sure the Single Entry option is enabled under the Display tab on the Connections : Settings admin page.
Hope that helps.
Perfect! That sorted it. Thank you!
The “reply” was not included after your last reply so I’m starting over. I added the “Slim” plugin per the template installer instructions as well as the shortcode: [connections category='3,2,1' show_alphaindex='true' repeat_alphaindex='true' width='500' list_type='family'].
However, it’s not doing what I need. As you may recall what started this is I created 3 individual entries then tied two together as a family. Now my directory gives 5 entries (3 individual and 2 family). (see http://www.liveoakchurchofchrist.com/connections.jpg).
After my recent attempts to correct, it now shows http://www.liveoakchurchofchrist.com/connections1.jpg which has dropped all the names except the one family.
I need the directory to list all members names,in a list then as you click on the name it brings up the information. Which is what it was doing in the beginning with the exception it gave both individual names as well as the family names.
I hate to keep populating this message board trying to fix this. As a paid member do you have other support functions? Just need the family fuctions to work with the slim plugin as it appears on other showcase examples.
Thanks,
Patsy
@Patsy
Sure, the link to the Support Forums is right there at the top of the page. There’s a Slim template specific support forum.
There’s one point you have me confused on now … do you want to show only the families or everyone including the families?
After you installed Slim, did you go to the Connections : Templates admin page and activate it?
I have Slim 1.0.1 activated as Connections Template. What I want is the alpha index at top (is there) then the directory listing to begin with “A” and list each as individual or family. Should look like:
Dominick, Patsy
Dunn, Cecil & Brenda
Then when you drill down on the name it will bring up information or in Cecil & Brenda Dunn’s case it will bring up a family card with options to click on individual.
The directory now shows just the family card and has left the Patsy Dominick out of the main listing. This is a screen print of before:
http://www.liveoakchurchofchrist.com/connections.jpg and this is a screen shot of after I uploaded the new SLIM as a plug-in then activated it in Connections>Templates.
Do I need to go over to the SLIM support forum with this?
Patsy
@Patsy
The support form would have been better as this comment thread is supposed to be for the [connections] shortcode only, but as you see, that hasn’t worked out as planned, but that my fault. I will very likely be shutting down comments thru the entire site. Any way, no need to move since the discussion is here.
If you want both families and individuals listed the you need to remove the list_type option from the shortcode. I was under the inpression from your previous comments that you want only to display the family entries. So you should use this:
Also, from your screenshot I can see that you have the shortcode on the page twice, remove the second one. You do not add multiple shortcodes to add option, you add the options all to a single shortcode. I hope that helps.
I will take my reply to the SLIM forum to finish. Also, when I checked it only had the short code once not twice.
Patsy
I do not get the option at the bottom of the card to read bio or notes. Also, if I use card-bio, then the list of categories is replaced by the bio. I would like to keep the categories listed and have a link to read the bio.
Also, my logo is not showing up on my card.
@ Kata
The Default Card and Bio Cards do not have the content trays, they are part of the design/functionality of the cMap and Market templates. Different templates will show or not show elements depending on their intended design… Ok, I hope that makes some type of sense … With that said, none of the supplied templates show the logo because they were all originally designed to display individuals, not organizations. The premium templates are very configurable and can be made to show or hide any of the available entry details. I hope that helps a little.
Hi Admin, I’m using Connections in my local web. I’m still in develop mode.
I’ve one question for you. I noticed that one should add data from the side menu or Dashboard. Is it possible or have there any shortcode with which user can go to add entry directly? I want to put a menu or link on my page with ‘Add Entry’, when user click on this the add entry form will come & user can add entry & save it.
Pls help me on this issue. i’ve hide my dashboard for users.
@Tareq
Sorry, but this can not yet be done from the frontend of the site.
Thanks, I got it.
Hi Steve, quick question (I hope)
I’m trying to create a contacts page that lists one category at first, but then when you use the search box it searches all categories. I picked up your search widget hoping it would do this, but its only searching the one category. Maybe Im using too simple of a shortcode?
[connections category='3']
Thanks
@Tom
By adding the category option to the shortcode, you are essentially hard-coding the which categories can be search. Sorry, but there is not a way to have a “default” category view and not limit the search results.
Thanks for the fast response, I’ll work around this by changing my main Directory link to a pre-configured search page.
Steven, I am close to purchasing your ProPack Bundle for use on a church website, but needed to be certain I could use it in multiple places. What I want to do is use the Slim template to display a full directory of Members, the Tile template to display a directory of Church Staff only (on a different page), and the Excerpt template to display a directory of Pastoral Staff (on a third page) – all based on Categories. Is there anything in your license, or otherwise, that would prevent this? I think I read some language the suggested there are limitations, but I could have misinterpreted it, too. Thanks in advance for your help.
@ Steve
Nope, your should be good to go. On the individual pages, just use the template shortcode option to call the template you want to use. And of course the category option to limit the list based on the category. Hope that helps.