[Sam Chadwick]

Steve,
I tried to build my own function based on the class.entry-output to display “Added By”, “Edit By” and “Last Updated”. However I appear to be unsuccessful. I also took a look at getRevisionBlock, but that returned blank when used within the cMap card-single template.
Can you assist with whether there is a function already for this, and if not, what it would be?
Many thanks,
Sam

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sam

re: I also took a look at getRevisionBlock, but that returned blank when used within the cMap card-single template.
You need to use it like this:
`getRevisionDateBlock(); ?>

I never updated it to echo by default, which it should.

re: I tried to build my own function based on the class.entry-output to display “Added By”, “Edit By” and “Last Updated”.

You can pull the code from the Connections : Manage admin page:

echo '<span style="display: block;"><strong>' . __( 'Added By', 'connections' ) . ':</strong> ' . $entry->getAddedBy() . '</span>';
echo '<strong>' . __( 'Edit By', 'connections' ) . ':</strong> ' . $entry->getEditedBy();
echo '<strong>' . __( 'Last Updated', 'connections' ) . ':</strong> ' . $entry->getFormattedTimeStamp( 'm/d/Y g:ia' );

These are basically straight copy/pastes so they should work just fine once plunked down into their own functions.

Hope that helps!

[Sam Chadwick]

Perfect!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sam

Great to hear!

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

[Sam Chadwick]

Steve,
How can I make the categories hyperlinks to search results (in the same way that WordPress posts do)?
Thanks,
Sam

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sam

Sorry, not easily doable until I release 8.2. There’s a brand new function I added specifically to do this. But if you want to give it go any way…

You would need to edit these two line:

• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/feature/term-meta/includes/entry/class.entry-output.php#L2467
• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/feature/term-meta/includes/entry/class.entry-output.php#L2475

You would replace the contents of the li and span tags with a call to this function:

• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/feature/term-meta/includes/class.terms.php#L4167

But since that function does not exist in the released version of Connections, you’ll have to create your own custom version of the function and call it instead.

Hope that helps!

[Sam Chadwick]

Steven,

I added the following at #L2467 and then a similar version but with the different $.out at #L2475. The permalinks appear, however the link destinations are incorrect.

Using the category search within the cMap template, the URL returned is:
http://myurl.com/?page_id=890&cn-s=&cn-cat%5B%5D=862
which works correctly, as I implemented your suggestion to enable multiple categories to be selected http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/customization-enhancements/

Using the code below, the category permalink returns: http://myurl.com/category/862/ which loads the Connections page correctly, and has the correct category in the search box, but “No results found”.

Looking at the other permalinks, e.g. http://myurl.com/locality/London/ I saw that the term itself is used rather than the term_id so I tried:

‘slug’ => $category->name

But this put every category in the system in the search box (and therefore returned everything).

I did check for conflicts in the permalinks settings. Connections uses ‘category’ and WordPress uses ‘cat’.

Any suggestions?

        foreach ( $categories as $category ) {
            $this_category = cnURL::permalink( array(
                    'type'       => 'category',
                    'slug'       => $category->term_id,
                    'title'      => $category->name,
                    'text'       => $category->name,
                    'home_id'    => $this->directoryHome['page_id'],
                    'force_home' => $this->directoryHome['force_home'],
                    'return'     => TRUE
                    )
            );                    
            $out .= '<li class="cn_category" id="cn_category_' . $category->term_id . '">' . $this_category . '';
        }

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sam You want to use: 'slug' => $category->slug, This should work, but it will not add the ancestor category slugs to the permalink. As an example, consider this category struct:

• Parent
• • Child
  • • Grandchild

The struct should be /parent/child/grandchild/

This code will only get you, /grandchild/ Like I said, it should work since Connections only queries the category at the end of the struct but technically the permalink will be incorrect. Hope that makes sense.

[Sam Chadwick]

The search results are now correct but the page loads with every category available as being selected rather than just the one related to the permalink.

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