[Kyle Matthews]

Hello, rather than use a shortcode, I am trying to only use a few pieces of connections (name, image, and URL) in a loop which I will display in my theme using my own CSS/HTML/PHP.

I can’t seem to find any documentation on this. Am I able to do what I’m trying to? More to the point – is there somewhere that details the specifics of implementing this?

[Kyle Matthews]

FWIW, I see I can create themes and use them in new shortcodes, but this isn’t what I want to do. I have a template which I want to embed the Connections loop in via PHP, not in the WP editor.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kyle

Use the connectionsEntryList() function. You can pass an associative array $atts. The array accepts all the same options as the shortcode does. The keys in the associative array would be the shortcode option names. Here’s an example:

$atts = array(
  'template' => 'card',
  'order_by' => 'organization, department, sort_column',
  'category' => '2',
);

connectionsEntryList( $atts );

Hope that helps you with your project.

[Kyle Matthews]

I’ll check into it – I’m hoping to create a loop where I’m displaying the members, similar to how I do on another site with some custom post types.

<?php
                        global $post;
                        $args = array( 'numberposts' => 7, 'category' => 6  );
                        $myposts = get_posts( $args );
                        foreach( $myposts as $post ) :  setup_postdata($post); ?>
                          <li>
                            <img src="<?php $pic = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'pic', true); if($pic != '') {echo "$pic";}?>" width="872" height="238" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
                            <div class="info-block">
                              <span class="featured-kids">Featured Kids</span>
                              <h2 class="txt-kidfeatured"><?php $nickname = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'nickname', true); if($nickname != '') {echo "$nickname";}?>.<a class="more" style="<?php $css = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'css', true); if($css != '') {echo "$css";}?>" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">&nbsp;</a></h2>
                              <div class="txt-kidblurb"><?php $blurb = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'blurb', true); if($blurb != '') {echo "$blurb";}?></div>
                            </div>
                          </li>
                        <?php endforeach; ?>

[Kyle Matthews]

Actually, I wound up using just that code and creating members as posts in a certain category.

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