Working categories into my site navigation

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  • 09/10/2015 at 1:09 pm #346350
    Troy Wolf
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    Thanks for your excellent plugin and extensions! I am the Troy Wolf you credit here for your use of my vCard PHP: http://connections-pro.com/credits/ (That was a blast-from-the-past for me!)

    I want to have my main site navigation be links to my directory categories. e.g. “Dining”, “Shopping”, “Schools”. (I’m creating a site that promotes a city–a glorified business directory.)

    I create a new page for my “Shopping” category and put nothing but this shortcode in it:

    [connections category='5']

    When I load my /shopping/ page, it works except I don’t want the “Select Category” dropdown to show. I looked through the shortcode options and did not see one that would hide that.

    Should I use custom CSS to hide it?

    Thanks!

    09/10/2015 at 3:05 pm #346363
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Troy

    Hey, hi there!

    re: Should I use custom CSS to hide it?

    Nope… you have two options. It seems like you can disable it globally since you are creating category specific pages. You can do this with the Template Customizer. Here’s how…

    Go to the Connections : Templates admin page

    Click the Customize button for cMap.

    Navigate to the Category Select panel. The Template Customizer will open on the Display panel by default, so you’ll need to click the back arrow <.

    Uncheck the Enable Category Filter option.

    Click the Save and Publish button.

    Now the category drop down will be removed globally for the cMap template.

    Option two, you can display it by settings a shortcode option. The instructions can be found here:

    http://connections-pro.com/documentation/cmap/#Category_Dropdown

    Hope that helps!

    09/10/2015 at 3:59 pm #346368
    Troy Wolf
    Participant

    Perfect. Thank you. Glad you found my vCard PHP useful..if you are still using any remnant of it!

    09/10/2015 at 6:35 pm #346378
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Troy

    Yep, still using it. I think the basic logic of it is the same… one of the first and major changes I made was made was to use it to extend my base cnEntry class so I could work with the entry data directly. I also base64 encoded the image/logo right in the file rather than having a link to the image. I’m sure there has been many other little changes I’ve done over the years too… those add up.

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