[Sylvie Loos]

Hi Steven,

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I am working with a theme in WordPress and I have installed the Connections plugin with the enhanced Category plugin.

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I have 3 category levels (classification depth). Once you get to the third level you select the last category item and you should get on a new page the corresponding entry list. Finally, you should be able to access the details page of the chosen list entry.

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I have created 5 page templates in my theme to display each of the search steps. I was able to display the top category on mytheme page 1. The subcategories (level 2) are displayed on mytheme page 2 using [connections_categories child_of=2 home_id=288].

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How can I redirect the next search results to the remaining mytheme template pages with simple code?

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Thank you, Sylvie

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sylvie

You do not need to create multiple pages and you do not need to use the shortcode. I recommend using a single page directory for the best experience.

• Create a single page with only the [connections] shortcode.
• Navigate to the Connections : Settings admin page, click the Display tab and scroll to the Categories section.
• Enable the Display option.
• Enable the Display Children option.
• Change the Display Style to Image Grid.

With this configuration only the top level categories will be display as an image grid above the directory.

Upon clicking a category, the page will refresh displaying only the children categories of the parent that was clicked with the directory results filtered by the chosen category.

Hope this helps!

[Sylvie Loos]

Hi Steven, thank you for your reply.

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The reason why I want multiple pages is that I need to display the image grid on the center, and a ‘connections widget’ on the side bar showing the entries of the image grid as a list. I need this, because at one point (level 2) we have a lot of categories to display (about 40).

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Is there a way to align results in the widget to what gets displayed in the image grid if we use a single page?

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Thank you,
Sylvie

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sylvie

I’m not sure of what you mean by widget in this context. Could you give me more details?

Thanks

[Sylvie Loos]

Hi Steven,
I guess this is my mistake. In the connection categories widget I set a parent for the lower levels, which I guess is not necessary. Unfortunately, trying to fix the issue with the list below the categories image grid broke the page starting from level 2. When it is fixed I will test again.
Thank you for being so responsive, your support level is excellent. Thank you in advance for your patience, Sylvie

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