[Rebecca]

Hi Steven — Thanks for the quick response! I’m attempting to use the solution found here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-connections-display-contacts-in-a-custom-order. (Certain job titles at the top, then a department in alpha/default order, then another job title, etc.) The sorting works fine; it displays exactly as I want on the main page. But clicking on names produces “No results.” Here’s another example: http://www.coloradochildrep.org/about-ocr/board-of-directors/. Main page looks perfect, clicking on names shows “No results.” Thanks again!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rebecca

Those shortcodes are not custom sorting… when you use the id shortcode option you limiting the results to just that entry. Similarly, using the category shortcode option you will be limiting the results to the entries assigned to the categories you specified. I think what you are looking for is the order_by shortcode option.

Does that help?

[Rebecca]

Update- I’ve noticed that when I use just [connections], the individual profiles work fine: http://www.coloradochildrep.org/connectionstest/

When I use custom sorting, some or all individual profiles show “No results”: http://www.coloradochildrep.org/connectionstest2/

Here’s how I have my custom sorting:

[connections id="2"]

[connections id="3"]

[connections category="5"]

[connections id="7"]

[connections category="6"]

[connections category="7"]

[connections category="8"]

[Steven Zahm]

@ MV Times

re: Must be a busy week. Can you let us know (at least) and ETA on a response for this ticket?

Many answers come some day, most in under 24hours (unless its a weekend or holiday)… it has not been quite 24hrs, yet ;)

re: We have custom (numbered category id) lists on all of our directory pages. (See screenshot.)

I’ve looked at the screenshot… honestly, I can’t quite figure out what it is supposed to be showing me.

And, the link you gave for the custom sort post, that is a search link… is the link you are referring to this one?

http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/sort-by-custom-field/#post-335687

re: For example, if our “custom field” is “Town”, will sorting by Town, reorder just that list by town or, will it pull up all

Honestly… there is no way for me to tell you based on just the key name (town) of how it’ll sort. I’d need to know the values and what the shortcode is that you are using for the custom field sort. But is a very general statement, I believe fields which do not have the custom field of “town” will be excluded from the results.

Not sure if that helps or not… hope it does.

[MV Times]

Hi,
I have reviewed the custom sort post and still have question for our application.

We have custom (numbered category id) lists on all of our directory pages. (See screenshot.)

Can you tell me how the sort by custom field works if we create custom fields?

For example, if our “custom field” is “Town”, will sorting by Town, reorder just that list by town or, will it pull up all

For example, does it sort the existing category ID list. Just Restaurants for example. OR, does it return all “Town” field content?

We have a lot! of listings and want to make sure this solution meets our needs.

Thank you so much for your help!

Patrick

[Steven Zahm]

@ Amanda

re: How can I make him appear first, but allow everyone else to follow alphabetically?

You have a couple options… you could use the order_by shortcode option, sorting manually by Entry ID like shown in the second example on the doc page.

Another option, but a bit more complete use of the order_by shortcode option and ordering by a custom meta field. Here’s a link to how to set that up.

http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/sort-by-custom-field/#post-335687

Hope that helps!

[Kevin Johnson]

Thanks for your quick reply Steven :-). This issue was actually a problem with my custom theme’s css file, so I modified the h3 definition in there, and also in the slim-pus.min.css file:

#cn-slim-plus h3{font-size: 14px;font-weight:bold;line-height:17px;color: #5d5d5d;padding:6px 0}

I’ve added the Country to each card’s heading, and am sorting the list by Country as you can see below, but I’d love to be able to display this inline with the Name, e.g.:

Kevin Johnson, Australia

I’ve been following a similar discussion in a different thread, but I just can’t get the display:inline; code in the right place. Are you able to offer a suggestion for adding moving the country to the same line as the name?

Many thanks,

Kevin

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Lynn

Let’s see…

re: I tried to create a custom css template and tried uploading it everywhere noted in your post regarding custom css and uploading it to the server and it never worked. I wound up tweaking the actual code.php page which i know is a big no-no because when it updates I’ll lose all my codes! UGH! where do i actually upload this? to my themes/connections-template/cmap/ and if so, how do i activate it?

Since it sounds like you might use the Gridder template instead, I’ll use that for the instructions.

To make this a bit easier, copy the gridder.css file to this path:
../wp-content/uploads/connections-templates/gridder/

The connections-templates folder will not exist in the uploads folder, so you will have to create it first.

There’s nothing you need to do to activate the custom CSS file, it’ll automatically be used instead.

Now with the file in that folder, you can tweak it as much as you want. Something to note, sometimes, due to server level file caching (if it exists) the change might not take effect immediately.

re: If i can’t figure out how to make all this work i may have you do it for me!

I do offer development services. If you want to put together a mockup or two, I can give you a quote.

re: I know i must be really stupid staring at this for hours upon hours and i’m sure i’m on brain overload, but I can’t for my life figure out how to get the link to view profile to actually go to the profile page, it takes me to …/…/name/xxxxx and says oops nothing is there! What am i missing?

Honestly, you’re fighting your server here. IIS6 is pretty dated.

I see that .htaccess file must have been updated to remove the index.php. That is great as the URL are correct now. But now I think you have a different problem…

It seems like you old site and your new WP installation on running on the same server. I’m guessing that the WP installation is in a folder named hunting-outfitters is that correct? If it is, then the change done to the htaccess file will need to be tweaked to account for that. What is happening is that the server is rerouting the links back to the old site and of course those links do not exist on the old site so that is why you are seeing the not found message.

What change do you need to make to the htaccess to fix that, sorry, I’m not exactly sure since server config is out of my area of expertise. Unfortunately your host support may not be of much assistance either (at least in my experience).

re: search for outfitter by species which is a category, right now i have category black bear hunting…
this will show a list of paid outfitters who offer black bear hunts. Each outfitter pays a certain amount, the more they pay the higher they are at the top, which makes it impossible to have a long list one under the other… they have to be in columns.

Just something to think about right now… by default the list will sort alphabetically. Connections does offer an order_by shortcode option to define other supported sort methods. There a new as of yet undocumented sort method which can be used to sort by a custom field. You will like have to use this to get the sorting your need.

Another thing to note… your old site is not responsive so the number per row stays the same on every device no matter the screen size. The WP and Gridder are both responsive. What this means to you is on devices with smaller screens, you will end up with a list, but that should be desireable otherwise the entries to the right would not be visible to the user unless they finger scroll right.

re: on the list of bear outfitters they can see photo/details (bio)/photo gallery/videos/ etc. of each outfitter based on what the outfitter paid for…

I think… no matter the template you settle on, it’ll need to be customized to get exactly what you want.

re: Also, in the notes section is there a way to embed youtube video channel?

I’m not entirely sure about a “channel” but, yes, Youtube videos can be embedded in the notes. Here’s a FAQ.

re: sorry this should say, they have links to: details (bio) with at least 8 photos (now set as bio/ a link to separate photo gallery which i’ve created and used a shortcode in notes/videos that of which i can’t figure out how to get my shortcode to work in notes and i really need a link that says, go to company listing which will have all the above on it!

I am having trouble visualizing what you want. Maybe you could create a couple mockups to show it?

[Kelly Cheatle]

Hmm- ok, so I did try the option to sort by the title- but that displays them in order of the titles alphabetically, instead of hierarchically/custom sort. (IE. president should appear first, followed by vp, secretary then historian and then remaining trustees… right now historian appears before pres, and VP is all the way at the end)

Do you have any suggestions to achieve the goal of sorting them in that order?

(Future dev request would be to allow for custom ordering of titles, perhaps in the short code (??) where you could use order_by=’title|SPECIFIED:President, Vice President, Secretary, Historian, Trustee’ It would require that people list the same titles they use in the title field, but that might be the simplest way to implement(?)Otherwise a section of the admin that lets you reorder the order of titles by pulling the currently used ones ? )

Thanks so much in advance- I appreciate how well your plugin is managed!

[Kelly Cheatle]

Hey Steven-

First off, AMAZEBALLS plugin. Worth every penny and then some.

I’m having trouble getting entries to show up sorted into their categories to control the order that they appear.

In this case, I want to be able to show all of the members in the Executive Board category, and I have also assigned the members within that category to the subcategory of President, VP, Secretary etc. and given those sub categories an order value of 1-6. (the counts below aren’t showing the current number of items with those categories, I took the screen grab before I finished)

So in theory I’d think that by adding the short codes to display either the entire Executive Board category, or by listing all of the subcategories- that should do what I want, where President shows first, followed by VP etc.

Here are the short codes I’ve used.

I tried two different short codes, first listing all of the sub categories, and then the main category:

[connections category='69,70,71,72,73,74' template="slim" enable_search=FALSE show_alphaindex=FALSE]

[connections category='68' enable_search=FALSE show_alphaindex=FALSE template="slim"]

And this is the dev page: http://greener-pastures.net/vbba/officers-trustees-committees/ where you can see they’re still appearing in alpha sort order.

Thanks so much in advance!
Kel