A picture is worth a thousand words…
Due to the nice rainy Saturday we just had it left we me with no choice but to spend some nice quality time working on the plug-in. Take a look at this screen shot. Yep, not only will there be category support, they’ll also be hierarchical. Good stuff!
Connections Category Admin Page
Thanks for created and shared nice Plugin.
This is an amazing plug-in! Any idea when the update with categories will be released? Also do you have any plans to paginate entries by Alphabet/Category? It would be nice for larger scale projects– current project I’m working on has about 400 entries and grows almost daily. Again Props on a great plugin, far suprior to the alternative(s).
I’m hoping to have it finished in the next couple weeks. Ironically this feature is probably more complex than the plug-in itself. Well at least the way I’m implementing it. It’ll be trivial to add tag support. And easy to add all sorts of neat stuff for displaying entries using those features.
Yes pagination is definitely a must. Unfortunately for me that’ll require quite a change to the data structure change and I’ll have to write some type of upgrader to import peoples data. It’ll come, probably later than sooner.
This is fantastic Steve, with this feature your plugin will become exactly what I am after :)
I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to find this plugin. I can see it being used in so many ways on many different sites. I’m excited about the category function. That and pagination will make this plugin very useful.
I love the ability to set up my own templates for the output. I have a website for children’s parties and have three listing features – free, basic and featured. By using (but not displaying) the ‘department’ field, I can have these different listings display just the way I want them. I have not been able to do this before with WordPress.
Now, I’m on my way to finishing up a site that is long over due. Thank you so much. I will be donating soon!
Is there a way to remove the word “Work” from the profile in regards to Phone and Email. Please see what I have here. I would like it to say just Phone and Email.
http://www.atlantachildrensparties.com
Not without editing the class.output.php file. One of the items on my to do list is better control over what the output tags display. It’s high up on my list so It’ll probably come after the category release. At the rate I’ve been going, this might make it by year end or so.
Have been looking for a business directory solution for WordPress lately. Found Business Directory for WordPress the other day, and now this! If you can pull off hierarchical category support, I think I’m in bed with y’all. Will the directory categories be the same as those for posts/pages? Or are they kept separate somehow? Thanks!
Category support is coming along quite well. I’m nearly finished with the admin page. Putting the polish on. Yep, categories are going to be hierarchical.
I debated long and hard if I was going to use the same categories that can be used for pages/posts but decided against it even though it would have been simpler to implement. Why, I figured users would to categorized entries quite differently from pages/posts and it may have been a little confusing from a user perspective. Since I decided that they were going to be separate, which way to do it, the easy way or the hard way. Well I chose the hard way and that’ll be good for users. I’m mimicking the way WP handles categories so that means flexibility and easy for me to expand upon. For example, tags support will be easy to add.
The initial release with category support will be basic from a user perspective. One will be able to add an entry to a category or multiple categories. And there will be a filter for both the entry list and shortcode added to filter by the selected category. I’ll add more user facing features as I receive requests.