[Steven Zahm]

@ Joseph

re: Looking for a way to show all entries on the main page. I have 181 entries and currently the main directory page shows 20 per page and 10 pages.

Which template are you using? All templates but cMap you would use the page_limit limit shortcode option, like so page_limit=50 or disable pagination with enable_pagination=false.

If you are using cMap, you can use the Template Customizer to change the pagination settings (you can use the shortcodes if you wish, but the customizer is preferred).

I very highly recommend display that many entries at once. It’ll make the page load much more slowly. This is not a bug or limitation in Connections. The same would happen if you tried to display that many WordPress posts on a single page. Depending on your server/web host, I would recommend more than 50–100. You could try it and see if the load time is acceptable to you.

re: since the Search feature works against the whole dataset, is there a way to make the Sort of a given field work against the whole data set?

Not sure I really understand the question. You can change the default sort order field. I think that is what you are asking. See the doc page for the order_by shortcode option.

Hope that helps!