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 …
Due to lack of activity on the site, I’ve been getting emails asking if Connections is still under development. The answer is, yes. Connections is actually always under constant heavy development. I have been neglecting the site a bit, which I’m going to remedy. To start, I’ll give you a little feature preview. One of the …
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’ …
After a couple thousand upgrade and no reported issues I’d say this latest release is a success! Download Here Here’s the official changelog: 0.7.1.3 01/17/2011 OTHER: No Changes. SVN error. 0.7.1.2 01/17/2011 BUG: Fixed the width and height setting being swapped in the getLogoImage() method. 0.7.1.1 01/15/2011 FEATURE: Added Contact First and Last name fields …
One of the planned updates for the next release of Connections is to improve the rich text editing of the Bio and Notes fields. Well, I’ve made great progress with that. Take a peek at the screen captures. I’ve dropped jWYSIWYG for rich editing. Unfortunately it just isn’t robust enough and had some flaky behaviors …
One request I’ve been receiving it to provide some method to help protect email addresses from spam email harvester bots. Well, this is exactly what this pro module will do. The entire email address mailto anchor tag is encrypted using the ROT13 encryption method. As the page is being rendered a client side JavaScript will …
I’ve been hard at work on the next version of Connections. A couple of the new major enhancements are a completely revamped template loader and a brand new template manager in the admin. Here you will be able to manage the default templates per list type, install and delete templates. In Connections, each entry can be set …
If you’ve been waiting for this, then you know I’m late. Guess that is how it goes with software development. Good news though. I spent this past weekend, since it was so hot, working on it. So far I’m really pleased with the results. It was kind of tough to come up with a user …