Adding permalink support to Connections has presented some interesting challenges to overcome since there is an established user base using it in a variety of ways that had to be taken in to account. First, everyone on the next upgrade will be required to choose a target page. Target home page, huh? Read on… A …
Not the most glamours of features but one of the most important… Using the Settings API Wrapper Class I developed, the Settings page has been completely revamped. It took longer than I had anticipated to develop this API but it was time very well spent, even if it delayed the next release. Why, because it’ll …
I obviously missed my target release date of end of June for the next major release of Connections. It should be only a few weeks longer. Progress? It’s coming along very well but a few things took a little longer than expected. One of them being a Settings API Wrapper Class for WordPress. What is …
Several years agoConnections started out as just some tweaks to suit some personal needs to another plugin, “Little Black Book“, which itself was a tweaked version of “Addressbook“. One of those tweaks was adding the anniversary and birthday fields. On second thought, maybe it was just adding the option of inputting a second address. Either …
Wait, doesn’t Connections already support search? Well, yes. That was a first attempt. This revision of search has been better optimized for speed which will allow searching of thousands of entries really quickly. It should also, hopefully, return more relevant results. It still could use more tweaking, but for now, this is a much needed …
Here’s the download link to RC 1: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/connections.zip RC 1 should be fully compatible with WordPress 3.1.x through 3.3. It is strongly advised that you backup the current four Connections tables in the db before the upgrade because the db structure has been changed significantly. After the upgrade is completed, validate the data for as …
The next release of Connections is packed with new features, many of which can be taken advantage of by templates. Every template in one way or another will benefit from the next release, but most templates will need to be updated to take advantage of most of the new features. If you’ve been following along, you already …
Like all things in software development, things never go as planned. The next release of Connections was supposed to occur today because a critical fix for WordPress 3.3 is needed for Connections to be compatible, but I still have a decent list of things I’d really like to finish up for this release. The good news …
It probably would be an understatement if I said search was the most often requested feature. Well, it’s coming. The feature is fully implemented in the admin. There is only some tidying up yet to do. I also updated the cMap template to include search. Market will also get search and so will the ‘Plus’ templates. …
Connections has many unique features, one of which is the ability to add as many items to each field type as you need. What do I mean? Well, for example, for the address field type you can add as many addresses as you need for the entry. The same goes for phone numbers, email addresses …