[Kartik Sharma]

Hi Steven,

I hope you are doing good.

I am facing following problem in Slim plus template:

“After filtering entries by category and then clicking on a letter from the Alphabhet index, the results are displayed by Alphabet only (category filter stops working)”

Found a similar question here: http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/shortcodes-combining-alpha_index-with-category/

Please let me know how to resolve this.

Thanks, have a great week ahead

Kartik

[Kartik Sharma]

Hi,

Some information for above mentioned case.

If I first click on an Alphabet and then select a Category. It shows the desired result.

However same result is desired When Category is selected and then Alphabet is clicked. (As checking by alphabet takes very long and is counter intuitive)

Thanks

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kartik

When searching by category first and then clicking a letter, the results are filtered by just the character resetting the category, correct?

When search by character and then selecting a category the results are filtered by both correct?

If that is the case, this is known and is how it is designed to work presently. This will likely be change in future updates.

[Kartik Sharma]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for the reply.
Yes you have identified the issue correctly, and good to know that this will be fixed by update rather than some tinkering with the code :)

However, for the time being, Is there any workaround while you fix this by an update?

Also, is there any expected date for update?

Best regards,

Kartik

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kartik

Sorry, no, there is no simple work around. This issue is quite complex because there is more to it than just the character index so the change would require lots of testing. I believe most of this has already been solved for the pagination links so my hope is that code can be extracted out and shared. I will not know for certain until I work on it. as for time frame, honestly, unknown. I don’t have this in my issue tracker and I should. I’ll add it so it is not overlooked.

[Kartik Sharma]

Hi Steven,

Sounds good now that your have it on the tracker.

However, please let me know how can I get the alpha-index position above the category filter for slim plus template. (This might make people click the alpha index first)

I was able to left align it using

‘#cn-slim-plus .cn-alphaindex {
text-align: left !important;
} ‘

but can’t get it above category filter , I tried using code snippet plugin and the steps you mentioned in following post, but it didn’t work out.

http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/need-to-not-show-the-bio-in-excerpt/

Thanks again for the quick replies, very helpful.

Regards,
Kartik

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kartik

Fudging the margins using CSS is the only way to do it without having to resort to editing the core PHP files of Connections. I think this will work. You might need the to add the !important flags.

#cn-slim-plus .cn-alphaindex {
    margin-top: -100px;
    margin-bottom: 60px;
    text-align: left !important;
}

#cn-slim-plus .chosen-container-single {
    margin-top: 30px;
}

If you have a moment, I would truly appreciate a review as they really do make a difference. Many thanks in advance!

https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/connections

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