[David Devillard]

Hi,
I’d like to add tags on entries to have a second way to filter entries on personal interests.

I know this in not currently possible with tags but could I have a way with categories? I’m using categories for the company departments.
I thought to create a new parent category (i.e.Personal) and add all the different personal interests as sub categories.

But I would have to display these subcategories at the bottom of the entries. Could it be possible with custom fields?
More, I don’t ant to display these categories in the drop down menu of the main page.
It seems to be complicated but what do you think of this,

Best,
David

[David Devillard]

I just discover your Hobbies plugin. It seems it’s close to what I need.
I tested it but I don’t understand everything and I didn’t find docs on it.

• How can change (delete, add) hobbies in your list (this one is very long but doesn’t correspond to my needs – And I need to add hobbies in french)?
• I’d like to have link on each hobby to filter and display all entries having this hobby (like a tag with posts).
• I don’t use sidebar in my website. Is there way to add this widget at the bottom of the entries (after the Notes field)?

Best,

David

[Steven Zahm]

@ David

re: I’d like to add tags on entries to have a second way to filter entries on personal interests.

Take a look at this site, the “Find A Therapist” section:

https://sscit.org/

This is an advanced search… which when installed and configured allow user to filter by multiple categories. For example, it could be setup on your site to allow user to search by the categories and Personal category children. Would this be a workable solution?

re: How can change (delete, add) hobbies in your list (this one is very long but doesn’t correspond to my needs – And I need to add hobbies in french)?

Probably the best way would be add/remove them via PHP using a filter. It rather technical if you do not know PHP.

re: I’d like to have link on each hobby to filter and display all entries having this hobby (like a tag with posts).

These are saved as metadata, not tags or category so there is no real good way to sort and filter by them.

re: I don’t use sidebar in my website. Is there way to add this widget at the bottom of the entries (after the Notes field)?

Navigate to the Connections : Settings admin page and click the Display tab. Scroll down to the Single Entry Content Block section and enable the Hobbies option. The hobbies will now be displayed on the single entry page after the notes or map if there is one.

Hope I have fully answered your questions!

[David Devillard]

Steven,

Thanks for all these answers!

I was not clear (once again, sorry I’m not english native). I don’t want to display an advanced search like in scit.org (great job!).
I want to display personal category at the bottom of single entry (just like hobbies when correctly used :o) ), make them clickable to display a page with all entries corresponding to this personal category. Just like tag you can click on in a post.
Your answer make me think Hobbies is not the solution for me.
But may be a parent category with subcategory if it could be displayed only in single entry pages (like tags) and not in the main category menu.
But I think it’s too complicate…

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steven

Ok, I understand better now. What you want to do is possible but would require some custom code to accomplish.

Open the card-single.php file found here:
../wp-content/plugins/connections-gridder/

Add this line of code on line 106:

$entry->getCategoryBlock( array( 'child_of' => x ) );

x in the line of code must be replaced with the Connections category ID you want to display the children of. In your case the Person category.

This will list the categories, but they will not be links. For that you will need the Enhanced Categories extension.

Hope this helps!

ps. if you decide to do this code change, it is highly recommended to use a custom template override file to make the cahnge update safe.

[David Devillard]

Perfect!!! It works fine with this code.
I will buy the extension to handle the links.

Just one last thing. The parent category and the child ones now appear in the category menu (the one in the main Grid page). Is it possible to delete them from the menu?

[Steven Zahm]

@ David

Hmmm… you can try the exclude_category shortcode option. That will definitely remove them from the category drop down but I think it will cause you trouble when you attempt to filter by category, clicking one of the Personal categories when they are links. More importantly, you should not really use the category permalinks like the ones the Enhanced Categories adds. So I would suggest turning the drop down back off and use the Category link list or image in in Enhanced Categories instead.

[David Devillard]

I’ll try this way.
Thanks for your support.

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