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  • 04/28/2015 at 4:40 pm #332787
    Marina Flournoy
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    I’m moving my [existing directory][1] from Sobi2/Joomla to Connections/Wordpress and am glad I made the switch. Connections offers way more flexibility and ease of use, but I have run into a couple of gotchas.

    The Connections directory is at [heartfulvillage.com/directory][2], where you can check out the problems I’ll describe below:

    1 – Permalinks are not working when selections are made from the drop-down menu, but they work fine from the widget.  I’m using a WordPress menu on the directory page, but you can access the widget with all categories here:  [heartfulvillage.com/directory/test][3].  The site is still under construction, so I’ve left the drop-down so can check it out. 

    If this is not fixable (or is too difficult to fix), I’ll stick with widget/widget shortcode category text as shown.  And, if that’s the case, I’d like to clear up space by replacing search with the search widget in the sidebar.  But . . . .

    2 – The simple search widget doesn’t work.  Since it goes looking for a post, I figure (hope) it’s just a setting, but I haven’t been able to figure it out.

    Please advise.

    Thanks much.

    Marina

    04/29/2015 at 10:20 am #332833
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Marina

    Right now, you can not mix the category drop down and the category permalinks. I have been working on resolving this as you see that category drop down does properly detect a category permalink. But there is still more to do.

    I suggest removing the category drop down filter.

    As for the simple search… It appears you may have the directory page set as the WordPress front page. Is that right? Currently there’s bug in WP that redirects to the posts page when it detects a query on the front page. I do have code in place that attempts to address this but because this is at the very core of WordPress it does not work in all instances. You’ll need to choose a different page for your front page so it is not the directory home page. I hope that makes sense.

    04/29/2015 at 11:02 am #332861
    Marina Flournoy
    Participant

    Yes. Using a different front page did the trick. Thanks much!

    04/29/2015 at 11:59 am #332895
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Marina

    Great to hear!

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