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Steven Zahm.
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04/25/2017 at 5:44 pm #421109
dgalassi
ParticipantHi! I need to somehow link/connect my blog writer’s profile with their corresponding connections profile. My site is a combination of members – that manage their own connections profile – and contribute blog posts to the membership community. I want to connect the two profiles in a simple way that can allow someone to find their connections profile to learn more indepth about their educational background. Is there an easy way to connect the two pieces in WordPress – the blog bio and the connections directory link – either through one of your extensions or another extension, if you know of one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
04/26/2017 at 9:36 am #421177Steven Zahm
Keymaster@ dgalassi
Hmmm… maybe the Authored extension??? If you can can give links to specific examples on your site so I can understand better what you’re asking I think I might be able to come up with other solutions that might meet your needs.
04/26/2017 at 6:33 pm #421234ParticipantHi Steven,
I am using the circled theme and have now activated the Authored plugin. I’m not seeing the authored posts underneath their profile information, where I’m expecting to see it. I found in the settings where I am enabling: custom fields, Education level, and latest posts. ALl three are checked. I’m not seeing the education level or the latest posts when listing a single listing (I saw your example, too, and that helped me know what to expect). I added special code (as shown in your tutorial) to list my custom fields in the circled theme, so that piece is being displayed correctly. First, I’d like to get the two fields showing: the education level and the latest posts. Then I’ll need to connect the author bios to their directory listing. Thank you!
04/27/2017 at 11:08 am #421319Keymaster@ dgalassi
re: I’m not seeing the authored posts underneath their profile information
Are the authors linked to their Connections entries. Check on the Manage admin page. A linked entry will have the text “Linked to:” followed by the user name on the far right.
If they are not yet linked, no posts will display.
re where I’m expecting to see it. I found in the settings where I am enabling: custom fields, Education level, and latest posts. ALl three are checked. I’m not seeing the education level or the latest posts when listing a single listing
The Content Block in both Circled and Gridder will be displayed at the very bottom of the single entry view in both templates, after the map.
re: I added special code (as shown in your tutorial) to list my custom fields in the circled theme, so that piece is being displayed correctly.
Did you perhaps accidently remove code? This code needs to be in the
card-single.phpfile or the Content Block can not be shown:$entry->getContentBlock( $atts['content'], $atts, $template );Hope this helps!
04/27/2017 at 2:25 pm #421331ParticipantHi Steven,
That does help! Thank you for telling me about the “linked to” field – I’m finding that my listings are not connected. How do I force the connection links to refresh? We’ve been manually self-populating the content prior to release of the site and its possible that we didn’t do things in “proper” order – so that the linking needs to be forced. Is there a quick way to do that?
I verified and that line you listed is indeed the last line in that file (the card-single.php). Is another setting I should check?
I also installed StarBox (by Squirrly UK) in an attempt to add more ways to allow my members to find out more information regarding the connection profiles. StarBox is formatting a nice looking author bio at the bottom of the blog posts. I would love a way to add a link to the connections profile inside their bio information at the bottom of each of their blog posts. Is this possible? Is there a shortcode that can connect a user id to the connections listing?
Thank you for your help with this!
04/28/2017 at 9:30 am #421389KeymasterRE: How do I force the connection links to refresh? We’ve been manually self-populating the content prior to release of the site and its possible that we didn’t do things in “proper” order – so that the linking needs to be forced. Is there a quick way to do that?
Sorry, there is no way to force a “link” at this time. The user has to login to the site. Something you can try… Install the User Switching plugin. It is a plugin which allows you to switch to another user on the Users admin page. If you have Link 3.1 installed, switching users with the User Switching plugin should cause the link to occur.
RE: I would love a way to add a link to the connections profile inside their bio information at the bottom of each of their blog posts. Is this possible? Is there a shortcode that can connect a user id to the connections listing?
Sorry, there’s not “out of the” box that can do this. Something custom developed could be made for you if you’re interested. Let me know and we can work out the specifics of the functionality and I can provide a fixed quote.
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