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These two releases were primarily for fixing bugs. Unfortunately I let a critical bug slip though in version 0.7.2.2 released on Christmas day. The bug was that you couldn’t save or update links. This bug only affected new installations, so anyone upgrading wouldn’t have experienced this. I did slip in a couple new features. One …

Well, after the long wait the next version of Connections has been released updon the world. Many thanks to those of you who downloaded the beta and release candidate and reported bugs! The response so far has been overwhelmingly positive, only a few minor issues which will be addressed. Actually these issues are so minor …

Here’s the download link to RC 1: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/connections.zip RC 1 should be fully compatible with WordPress 3.1.x through 3.3. It is strongly advised that you backup the current four Connections tables in the db before the upgrade because the db structure has been changed significantly. After the upgrade is completed, validate the data for as …

The next release of Connections is packed with new features, many of which can be taken advantage of by templates.  Every template in one way or another will benefit from the next release, but most templates will need to be updated to take advantage of most of the new features. If you’ve been following along, you already …

Like all things in software development, things never go as planned. The next release of Connections was supposed to occur today because a critical fix for WordPress 3.3 is needed for Connections to be compatible, but I still have a decent list of things I’d really like to finish up for this release. The good news …

It probably would be an understatement if I said search was the most often requested feature. Well, it’s coming. The feature is fully implemented in the admin. There is only some tidying up yet to do. I also updated the cMap template to include search. Market will also get search and so will the ‘Plus’ templates. …

Connections has many unique features, one of which is the ability to add as many items to each field type as you need. What do I mean? Well, for example, for the address field type you can add as many addresses as you need for the  entry. The same goes for phone numbers, email addresses …

 Another week, another feature preview. One of the most visible changes will be the addition of the Connections Dashboard admin page. This page was modeled after the WordPress Dashboard, so what you see in the screen capture are the available widgets and just like the WordPress Dashboard these can be rearranged and even hidden if you …

Just like addresses, an entry could be assigned any number of websites. While that was pretty useful, I wanted to improve on it. After taking into consideration how I’ve been asked to use this feature to customize templates, I decided to re-engineer this feature and rename the section on the entry form to ‘Links’. Take …

I’m already hard at work on the next version of Connections and here’s the list of features and changes that I hope will be in the next version: Features: Add an Overview page that will display the following widgets: Today’s Birthday’s Upcoming Birthday’s Today’s Anniversaries Upcoming Anniversaries Recently Added Recently Updated Awaiting Moderation Add ‘tabs’ …