[paul]

We run a website for the chamber. Many of our users don’t use Home or even Work. They prefer selections like “Office Phone” rather than “Work Phone” and “Mail Phone” or “Message Phone” rather than “Home Phone”. Is that an easy add? I could change the external display but that’s just a wrong hack.

Your suggestions are welcome.

Paul

[Steven Zahm]

@ paul

Actually simply changing the external display is fine. Here’s my recommended method:

To change field names. Install the Say What? plugin.

It’ll add a new Text Changes menu item. Click Add New, enter the string exactly as shown in Connections, enter connections [notice the lack of capitalization, that's important!] as the domain and then enter your new text.

The great thing about using this plugin is that it will be update safe and you can use it on any other plugin that has been properly internationalized. Hope that helps.

[paul]

Wow, code that changes the code that is used by a different core code. Say What?

Thanks, Steven!

I still recommend adding a couple more phones :-)

You make a good product!

[Steven Zahm]

@ paul

Nifty, how a plugins can be made to work together when following best practices when coding for WordPress.

On my todo list is to add a filter that can be hooked into that will allow any arbitrary phone type to be added. Same for the other data types too.

[Richard Pyne]

Any update on this? I would really like to be able to add more phone, email, and address types.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Richard

In the soon to be released 8.1 version you can use the following filters to add new meta data types:

cn_family_relation_options
cn_address_options
cn_phone_options
cn_social_network_options
cn_instant_messenger_options
cn_email_options
cn_link_options
cn_date_options

Two caveats…

If a new type is added and later removed, there is no code to handle the display of the missing type.

Even though there is a filter for cn_social_network_options it is almost useless because any newly added types will not have icons unless they are added to the plugin’s icons folder.

This is a first step. What I really need to do is add “registration” helper functions that hook into these filters to make it easier to deal with from a dev standpoint.

Any way, this should be enough to let you do what you want to do.

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