[Steve Cooke]

First up, what a great extension and add-ons, thanks! I’ve purchased the Extension Pro Pack today and am having some difficulty with the widgets, namely upcoming birthdays and recently updated.

The link to the individual’s page within these widgets is being generated as:

/name/joe-bloggs

Which just displays my homepage with “Joe Bloggs >>” in front of the blog entry titles.

The Connections > Settings > General > Home Page is set as /staff-directory, so I think I’m correct in saying that the link in the widgets should be: /staff-directory/name/joe-bloggs

Hopefully that makes sense? I can’t provide a link unfortunately as the site I’m developing is an Intranet that can only be seen on the internal network. I can provide screenshots if required though.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

Yes, what you’re saying does make sense. The links should only build that way if the output of the entry info is within the page loop. Is the widget in your sidebar or did you somehow include it within the page content of your home page?

[Steve Cooke]

I see, that makes sense. The widgets could well be within the loop. I’m using some pre-defined widget areas in a theme that I’ve picked up from here: https://github.com/helpful/helpful-intranet (I don’t expect you to get involved in debugging that of course).

If you could pass your eyes over this single page template and see if it gives you any clues/confirms your suspicion, that would be a great help.

http://pastebin.com/RFV3HXZq

This is the code of page-home.php and the widgets are in the dynamic_sidebar('home-widget-area2')

[Steve Cooke]

…just to add to that – I’ve tried including that dynamic_sidebar('home-widget-area2') both right at the end of footer.php and also as the first thing after the nav in header.php just to see if it made a difference. The links are still built as /name/joe-bloggs for some reason. I guess it must be something else in the theme’s functions that’s causing the problem.

Any suggestions? I’d probably be happy to employ a hack for this project, even if it meant somehow hardcoding that /staff-directory/ prefix into all links?

Thanks again for looking into this.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

The dynamic_sidebar functions are definitely within the post loop. Moving them before line 6 or after line 57 should do the trick.

Since you’re on a page so is_page() will be definitely be returning true. Can you do a var_dump( in_the_loop() ); before line 6 or after line 57 to see if is returning true or false? Just for curiosity actually…

He’s what you can do to fix it… Update to Connections 0.7.9 if you haven’t already and install the version of the Widget Pack I’ll be emailing you directly. It’s been altered to take advantage of a new feature in 0.7.9 that allows me to either force or alter the destination of links created for entries.

[Steve Cooke]

var_dump( in_the_loop() ); on line #5 of that page returns bool(false) (switching it to line #7 returns true).

I had in fact already updated to Connections 0.7.9 this morning and I’ve just installed the version of the Widget Pack that you’ve kindly e-mailed to me. I’m pleased to say that it is now all working perfectly!

I can’t thank you enough for the speedy response on this. Cheers! The only question I have now is, do I need to worry about future updates to the widget pack undoing this?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

Great to hear! Nope, you will not lose that if you update the Widget Pack. I’m actually going to get the very version you just installed uploaded sometime later today.

Have you left a review? If you have a moment, I would truly appreciate one as they really do make a difference. Many thanks in advance!
http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/connections

[Steve Cooke]

Sorry for the delay, a review – consider it done! Thanks once again for all your help.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

No problem and thanks again!

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