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 …
Only a month after 8.3 was released follows 8.4 with an exciting new feature… the Template Customizer. All the premium templates have long supported the ability to be tweaked by adding options to the [connections]. For a long time now I’ve known this is not the best way to handle this as it can be …
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The focus of development for this release was on admins tools. This release brings a new Tools admin page. The first tools included are System Information, Settings Export/Import and Logs. The System Information tool replaces the System widget that use to live on the the Dashboard admin page. This new tool provides a wealth of …
A question I get from time to time in the support forums is, “Does Connections support custom fields?” The answer is yes, but no point-and-click interface exists to create them. What does exist is the Custom Fields API. This API allows developers to add custom fields of different types, such as text fields, radio groups, …
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 …
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 …