[Mitch]

Hey Steve,

I just wrote you an incredibly long support forum post, only to delete it after I finally figured out I wasn’t (totally) :) losing my mind.

I couldn’t figure out why records were not opening the way I thought they should.

Then I remembered months ago we had discussed launching connections companyname links on the connections homepage (not the page the shortcode was on). You gave a great workaround, but in a recent update, I had lost that code.

After a ton of searching, I found it… It was:

$permalink = $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ? trailingslashit( get_permalink( $homeID ) ) : get_permalink($homeID);

Were you going to incorporate that ability into a tickbox or something in settings? Or do I just need to remember this time upon updates to add it back in?

Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mitch

The short answer, yep, for now, remember to change the code after an update.

Long answer…

I was hoping to get this in 0.7.8 but kicked it to 0.7.9 since I ran out of time and I’m already “late”.

Here’s the Github issue link.

I was targeting the end of July for 0.7.9, but I’m thinking that will get pushed to end of August since we’re already deep into July and I have a lot of enhancements scheduled for 0.7.9 … Maybe I’ll just do one or two things for 0.7.9 and keep the schedule and just bump the other items. Oh the decisions…

I can’t wait to start doing this fulltime!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mitch

Good news, this feature will make the 0.7.9 release. I just added it. You use it by setting one of two new shortcodes; home_id or force_home.

Setting force_home to true like the following examples will force the links to resolve to the directory home page.
[connections force_home=true]

Or you can selectively define a page ID as the directory home; overriding the settings. For the following example, lets assume the directory home page ID is 33 but you need the links to go to a separate page ID for this shortcode instance and that page ID is 68.
[connections home_id=68]

You could set both options, not sure why one would, but if one did, the force_home option takes priority.

And for historical sake, here’s the link to the original request.

[Steven Zahm]

And to close out the thread, here are the links to the doc pages:

home_id
force_home

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