Are you looking for a way to protect the email address of contacts in your directory? Connections provides a several methods which you can use to accomplish this goal. Keep reading to learn how. Method 1: Set the Email Address to Private As you add an email address, change the Visibility option to Private. The …
This is the third post in a series on how to add a checkbox group custom field to Connections. You should review these posts on how to add a custom text field and how to add a checkbox custom field before this one as this post will build upon them. I’m sure you’ll notice much of this is the …
This is the second post in a series on how to add a checkbox custom field to Connections. You should read the first post on how to add a custom text field before this one as this post will build upon it. Before moving on, the first thing you should do is install the Code Snippets …
I had a great question asked in the support forums today and I thought the answer to it would make for a good how-to post. I was asked how to add the Awaiting Moderation widget found on the Connections Dashboard admin to to the core WordPress Dashboard admin page. This is actually pretty easy, requiring …
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 …
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 …
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 …