[Steven Zahm]

@ reyes

Here’s the article, let me know if you have any questions.

http://connections-pro.com/2015/10/01/quicktip-custom-field-redirect-on-category-select/

[reyes]

Hi Steven,

It appears that my redirects are no longer working despite the snippet being activated. All Parent and Child Categories are showing in the category drop down box. I have only been editing the category pages and nothing else. Can you check this out to determine what happened? My main directory page is http://www.b-seatednow.com/?page_id=2797

Thanks,

[reyes]

Steven,

My cmap.php file contains the desired categories as shown below:

$atts = array(
‘default’ => self::$atts[‘str_select’],
‘select_all’ => self::$atts[‘str_select_all’],
‘type’ => self::$atts[‘enable_category_multi_select’] ? ‘multiselect’ : ‘select’,
‘group’ => self::$atts[‘enable_category_group_by_parent’],
‘show_count’ => self::$atts[‘show_category_count’],
‘show_empty’ => self::$atts[‘show_empty_categories’],
‘parent_id’ => self::$atts[‘enable_category_by_root_parent’] ? self::$atts[‘category’] : array(),
‘exclude’ => self::$atts[‘exclude_category’],
‘include’ => array(16,4,2,31,42,411,32,29,33,3,21,105,41,18,19,20,95,17,246,22,262,1),
);

So I am not sure why my entire category list is showing.

[Steven Zahm]

@ reyes

I just visited the site… all the redirects seems to be working just fine.

[reyes]

Steven,

In the category drop down box only categories 16,4,2,31,42,411,32,29,33,3,21,105,41,18,19,20,95,17,246,22,262,1 should be showing. that is not the case. All of the categories and their children are showing. Then upon selection they redirect. I have checked my cmap.php file as I indicated above and have only the desired categories listed. What am I missing?

[reyes]

The connections code on the main Database Listings page is

[connections str_bio_show='' str_note_show='More Details' str_note_head='' str_select_all='']

I do not believe I need to add the selected categories to that page since I made the selection in the cmap.php file. Is this correct?

[reyes]

For example, on the main directory page http://www.b-seatednow.com/?page_id=2797 only Academia, Government, Federal, Advisory Boards, Agencies, etc. should be showing not the children – Colleges, Universities, Executive Office etc.

This is the problem I was trying to resolve initially by the custom redirects. Un-clutter the drop down box and redirect only specific pages. Has there been some update that impacts the cmap.php file or something else that has changed?

[Steven Zahm]

@ reyes

Oh… so the redirection happens just like it should (which is what I am seeing).

The is is actually the drop down on the main directory is not showing the correct categories, correct? When I visit the cmap.php file, this is not there:

'include' => array(16,4,2,31,42,411,32,29,33,3,21,105,41,18,19,20,95,17,246,22,262,1),

I can not remember which version you had of cMap, but if you just updated it to the new version 5.0 you would have lost any changes you made to the cmap.php file. This is not an issue with Connections or cMap, this is how WordPRess processes plugin updates, the old files are deleted and the new ones copied it their place.

If you had that include line for the category drop down options, you are going to have to add it again.

Wait… I see, you create multiple version of the cmap.php file. You can’t do that. Remove the cmap1.php and cmap3.php files. Put them in a backup folder or something. Leave only the cmap.php file. You’ll like have to reactivate the template afterwards.

[reyes]

Steven,

You are correct with your assessment of the problem. I did update to 5.0 and moved the cmap1.php and cmap3.php files to a backup folder. I also updated my connections to 8.4 and reactivated my cmap template. All your suggestions fixed the problem.

Many thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ reyes

Great to hear it’s sorted!

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