Here’s a QuickTip for users of the CSV Import extension… A question that’s popped up in the support forums a few times now is, how can I import into the Custom Fields metadata using the CSV Import extension. There is not a way to do this thru a point and click interface yet. This is …
There was a question in the WordPress.org support forums asking how to remove or hide the category support built into Connections. Category support is a feature that is deeply integrated into Connections so the feature can not be “remove” but access to it can be suppressed. The first thing you need to do is install …
Go find that update button, version 8.2 has just been released! The primary focus of this release was to completely rework the code that processed the reading and writing of the entry meta data table so that meta data can also be saved for the categories. With this core feature enhanced to support categories, it …
As mentioned in the Working Towards 8.2 blog, I’ve been commissioned to add the ability to custom order the categories. I’ve made a lot of progress and I will soon be ready to beta test it. All-in all, this is yet another major release as the changes are far and wide. Not only do these changes make …
I’m switching up the way I’m going to develop and release updates a little. Currently, like many projects, I define milestones and prioritize the tasks within each milestone and once those tasks are finished, the update is released. I’m going to continue working like this but instead of adding several large tasks per milestone I will be only …
This bug fix is long overdue, I admit, but it includes a laundry list of minor edgecase bug fixes. It also includes two major changes, something I would not normally put into a bugfix release. The first major change is that the code for categories was rewritten from the ground up .This was actually in the works …
The Widget Pack is one of the more popular extensions for Connections because it adds many useful widgets that can be added to the theme’s sidebar. I’ve been working on a massive update to all the currently available widgets, implementing all the most requested features. Here’s an overview of the new features you can expect …
Connections was built from the ground up for tweaking… I’ve already covered how to create Custom CSS files and Custom Template CSS files now I’m going to go over how to tweak the template card PHP files in an update safe way. This QuickTip starts off very similar to the other two so if you have …
Likely the most popular feature of Connections is its templating support which is extremely flexible … I’ll be posting more on this topic. What I’d like to go over in this QuickTip is if you make a tweak to a core template how to make sure that tweak is update safe. All the core templates …
This QuickTip is very similar to the Custom CSS QuickTip but with one very important distinct difference, this is template specific custom CSS loading. And just like the Custom CSS QuickTip this is update safe so you will not lose this custom CSS when you update either Connections or the template. The first thing you need is the …