I had a great question asked in the support forums today and I thought the answer to it would make for a good how-to post. I was asked how to add the Awaiting Moderation widget found on the Connections Dashboard admin to to the core WordPress Dashboard admin page. This is actually pretty easy, requiring …
The last couple months I’ve been very focused on adding the most requested feature, CSV Export, and I’m happy to announce that last week an update to Connections was released, version 8.5.6, which includes the last of the CSV Export tools-the CSV Category export tool. Just like the other CSV export tools added in the …
I’ve been hard at work on the next update to Connections. This update continues my focus on CSV exporting. The new tool adds support to batch export the categories as a CSV file quickly and efficiently. My test database has nearly 2,000 categories and it exports all of them in only a couple seconds. A …
Last week Connections finally had the highly requested CSV export feature added. It included four export tools which could batch export addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and dates. For many, having these export options is more than enough to meet their needs for creating email or address lists. Others, though, still need a far more comprehensive export …
The number one feature request for Connections is CSV Export. I’m very excited to announce that this feature has finally come to Connections for free to all with the release of version 8.5. You can now batch export addresses, phone numbers, email address and dates. These are just the first of the planned export tools to be added to …
A couple weeks back I received a very interesting request. A user wanted to redirect to different pages based on the category selected in Connections. After fiddling with a couple different ways of trying to achieve this, I came up with a fairly simple elegant solution that is easy to maintain. Before moving on, the …
I’m a little late with this post… on Friday several updates were released. A relatively minor update to Connections. The biggest change being updating the style of the date picker to better match the admin style, no matter which color your choose. The Authored extension received a major update. Rather than simply inserting itself at …
Due to the new Template Customizer feature added in Connections 8.4 the templates Excerpt, Slim and Tile have become largely redundant and are being retired. Here are a few questions I thought might be asked… What does this mean if I purchased one of these recently? Well, honestly, not much. They will still be supported for the next year …
cMap has received a significant update to take full advantage of the new Template Customizer feature introduced in Connections 8.4 with individually configurable list and detail views including over 100 interactive point and click tweakable options to allow you to tweak the template to better meet your exact needs and style for tighter visual integration …