Occasionally I get asked if it is possible not to show any entries until a search is performed by a user when using one of the premium templates that support search. This is possible and can be enabled by installing a free extension for Connections. Here are the download link and the installation and configuration instructions: …
Occasionally, I get asked if it is possible to set a “default category” when displaying the entry list. The simple answer is yes; use the category shortcode option. But, the answer can be a little more complex than that. If you are using any of the templates which allow the user to filter the results …
The Widget Pack has been completely rewritten from the ground up to be faster and far more flexible. The changelog really does not do this update justice. Read the in depth feature preview post about the new Category Widget to get an idea of just how big of an update this is. New feature highlights… Probably the most important …
Connections 8.2 was a very solid release and version 8.2.4 builds upon that. Normally I do not post about bug fix releases but this one is a little unique. One of the underhood changes that 8.2 brought was significantly improved code for working with and displaying categories. This improvement not only brought more flexibility which …
An update to the Form extension brings a small but notable new feature, page redirect after a successful submission. You now have the option to redirect to another page on your site after the user has successfully submitted a new entry. Enabling this new feature is very easy. Simply go to the Connections : Settings admin …
Introduction 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 planned to come as a feature of an extension …
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 …