[Alex Botkin]

Use use this phrase in a lot of support answers…
“add the following to the theme’s custom CSS area:”

I just looked at market.css and I can’t find any commented section like that.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

Yes, add it to the theme’s custom CSS area … this means the WordPress theme that you are using not the Connections template.

Hope that clears that up for you. Let me know.

[Alex Botkin]

My knowledge of CSS is mostly conceptual so I’m still a bit confused as to how a change like this:

div#cn-metabox-section-organization, div#cn-metabox-section-department
{ display: none !important; }

can be executed by the WordPress theme.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

The theme will load it into the page, that’s all the custom CSS area does, nothing more. The style declarations of the CSS only effect Connections. The CSS you pasted above will only effect for the Form extension you do know that, right?

[Alex Botkin]

Yep. Rather than replace words on the form, although I’ll do some of that, I figured taking out the organization and department would eliminate some confusion.

I’ve attached the custom css printscreen and the appearance of the form after clicking the “Edit my directory entry”

Unfortunately Organization and department are still there. I’m assuming that something in the css is wrong, as I am only skilled at cut and paste css :-)

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

That CSS will only affect the Form extension, not the edit screens in the admin. There is not an easy way to remove/hide it in the admin edit pages, sorry.

[Alex Botkin]

But that is the screen that comes up from the “Edit my Directory entry” for a new subscriber with a linking email address.

I am confused.
Where would I see the effect of that css?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

That screen is an admin edit screen, it looks like it is from the Link extension. The CSS you found is for the Form extension which allows a user to edit their entry from the frontend.

Does that help clear it up? Sorry I am not finding the right works to make it clear!

[Alex Botkin]

So then if you have Link as part of the arsenal, then Form never appears?

Form is then only for new, never before entered, directory listings?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

Both Form and Link work together; or separately…

Form allows site visitors, not necessarily users, to submit entries to the directory from the frontend.

Link will link an existing user to an existing Connections entry and allow that user to edit their entry in the admin. If A user does not have a Connections entry, they can add their entry in the admin.

Form allows user to submit their new entry or edit their existing entry when used in conjunction with Link on the site’s frontend.

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