[Jason Cooke]

I’d like to hide the category search box in the category dropdown menu.

I’d also like to hide all staff entries until the user either searches or chooses a category.

I’m using the SLIM theme. Please advise. Thanks!

[Carolin Collins]

We spoke before about a customisation job to create 4 different category groups for my client, each with it’s own dropdown as per a sample site you showed me. I am finally getting the client to lock in their categories and values for this customisation task and will email you shortly!

Here is a quick question. Is it possible to show the members directory in 2 different locations in the website and show it with 2 categories in one and with all 4 in the other?

My client would like to get members to tick boxes in 4 different category types: Industry / Role / Competence (Stage of Development) / Competence (Project Size) when they maintain their profiles. However, they only want 2 of these (Industry and Role) to be searchable by the public in the “public” version of the directory. They would then preferably like a copy of the directory to be available in a members only area of the website (which we are creating anyway for other member resources) where paid members can access the full 4 categories to search. Is this feasible? Perhaps the simplest thing would be to hide the other two dropdowns with CSS classes??

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jeffrey

re: Customize menu briefly appears then disappears, even with all plugins deactivated.

Do you have a Themify theme? If you do, this could explain it.

re: is this the proper way to manually hide the Categories Dropdown

Yep, see this.

Hope that helps!

[Jeffrey]

Steven, no unfortunately I’m having the same problem as some other users: the Customize menu briefly appears then disappears, even with all plugins deactivated.

As I’m under a deadline, is this the proper way to *manually* hide the Categories Dropdown, using CSS?
http://connections-pro.com/support/search/hide+Category+Dropdown

[Steven Zahm]

@ Troy

Hey, hi there!

re: Should I use custom CSS to hide it?

Nope… you have two options. It seems like you can disable it globally since you are creating category specific pages. You can do this with the Template Customizer. Here’s how…

Go to the Connections : Templates admin page

Click the Customize button for cMap.

Navigate to the Category Select panel. The Template Customizer will open on the Display panel by default, so you’ll need to click the back arrow <.

Uncheck the Enable Category Filter option.

Click the Save and Publish button.

Now the category drop down will be removed globally for the cMap template.

Option two, you can display it by settings a shortcode option. The instructions can be found here:

http://connections-pro.com/documentation/cmap/#Category_Dropdown

Hope that helps!

[Troy Wolf]

Thanks for your excellent plugin and extensions! I am the Troy Wolf you credit here for your use of my vCard PHP: http://connections-pro.com/credits/ (That was a blast-from-the-past for me!)

I want to have my main site navigation be links to my directory categories. e.g. “Dining”, “Shopping”, “Schools”. (I’m creating a site that promotes a city–a glorified business directory.)

I create a new page for my “Shopping” category and put nothing but this shortcode in it:

[connections category='5']

When I load my /shopping/ page, it works except I don’t want the “Select Category” dropdown to show. I looked through the shortcode options and did not see one that would hide that.

Should I use custom CSS to hide it?

Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Richard

re: the categories dropdown appears twice at the top of the page. How can I remove this?

This is being caused by the theme. There are two options. Once is to hide it with CSS. Add the following to the theme’s custom CSS area:

#cn-cmap div.select2-container {
    display: none !important;
}

The second, better, but more technical, solution is to prevent the theme from doing his in the first place.

Edit the template.js file found here:

../wp-content/themes/magnium/js/template.js

Change this:

$("select").select2({
    allowClear: true,
    minimumResultsForSearch: 10
});

to this:

$("select").not('.cn-category-select').select2({
    allowClear: true,
    minimumResultsForSearch: 10
});

Save and overwrite the original file (make a backup of it first).

The tough part is getting purged from the various caches so the updated file will get loaded by the browser.

re: the search for example is not removed

I just tested it and I am unable to replicate the issue. If it preview correctly in the Template Customizer, it should display correctly if the changes were saved. Could you double check it? Also, what is the exact shortcode you are using?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dani

You can use the show_empty_categories shortcode option to hide empoty categories. For it work work, the Uncategorized category has to be completely empty, meaning if unlisted or private entries are assigned to it or unapproved entries are assigned to it, it is not empty show it will show.

The parent category can not be hidden without hiding the children categories and hiding the parent category will also hide any entries assigned to it and its children categories.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marco

I believe that CSS you found was for the category widget in the Widget Pack. To hide categories in cMap, you can use the exclude_category shortcode option or the show_empty_categories cMap shortcode option.

Hope that helps!

[Sokchhan Oum]

Please go to our test site here:

http://calvoterguide.sajeconsultants.com/our-winners/

Everything looks fine initially, but now if you do a search for ‘office’, 6 results will be returned but the first row of results is now not aligned properly. What can be done to fix this?

What I’ve found is that if I enable category select dropdown, the alignment is fine. But if I include enable_category_select=FALSE as an option in the shortcode to hide the category dropdown, this issue occurs.