[Mitch]

Ah. That fact the URL doesn’t “really” change answers the why on the link that is shared. On this site, I use the Facebook plugin that was developed by Facebook and automattic.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook/

The next dev cycle sounds great. The “real” facebook URL will be fantastic for some of the sharing features I am implementing.

An excerpt of the Bio field for a category? I’m not sure I follow? I don’t recall the ability to put that information in anywhere? This is exactly the use case I spoke of when I originally made separate pages for Every. Single. Category. It was important to have a description and the great SEO that came with it.

Thanks!

[Mitch]

as an add-on plugin huh, that’s fine… bundle it with that third tab thing and I’ll give you the credit card number right now. :)

Happy Easter.

[Mitch]

sweet. can’t wait to see what you release. any goal for timing of the release of an updated cmap?

and, not to go off-track yet again (look, squirrel!) :) but did you ever decide to pursue ‘Locate’?

[Mitch]

Got it. Rolled back. Works as intended. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

I’ll wait on the other sites until you give a green light on the new cmap template.

I need to look around here and read some more on what you are doing with the new templates. Not to change the topic, but are you going to do anything that will be ‘responsive’ in nature on the new designs?

Thanks as always for great support on your products.

[Mitch]

Yes, I believe that is the best way to describe it. When someone clicks on the permalink (record name) in the full directory (which I set on a page that is NOT the Connections homepage) it opens that individual record, on that page that IS set as the Connections homepage. On ONLY this individual record page would that records’ info and bio tabs be automatically opened.

Does that make sense? Let me know if you have any ideas on how I might do this.

Thanks.

[Mitch]

Sweet. Perfect. Adding that extra ‘get_permalink’ did the trick.

Very cool. Thanks for your efforts here. The ability to use two different pages should now allow me to use the benefit of the permalink structure, while keeping the integrity of my “Featured” listings layout.

Thanks and have a great weekend!

[Mitch]

Hmm. No bueno.

For confirmation, after changes, Line 434 now equals

<code>$permalink = $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ? trailingslashit( $homeID ) : get_permalink( $homeID ); </code>

yet, when I click on a record title (permalink) displayed on the “otherpagename” it generates a URL as such:

‘URL/otherpagename/12710/name/yourcompanyname’

where ‘12710’ equals the wordpress pageID of the homepage as set in the Connections settings.

could it be related to the structure of Line 440?

Thanks for working through this with me.

[Mitch]

I think a tick box option in the advanced settings would be great, but until you can get to it, I’d be happy to manually edit something to achieve this. I already do a couple of tweaks, some I know enough to be dangerous. :) Please point me in the right direction and I’ll give it a shot.

Thanks.

[Mitch]

Hey Jayson,

Not to jump in, but I stumbled across your Q… here’s what I did to achieve this. I added the word “right” or “left” to the ‘country’ field in each record. I then set up two columns on the page (using columns in my Genesis theme). I created two shortcodes (one for each column), I then modified code in each to have country=right or left, and then modified the shortcode for both to have the address not display the country. Of course, I also need to make width = 400, which allowed two columns on a full page layout.

Just for the fun of it I made the sort=random so I didn’t need to worry about alpha.

I should note this was for an ‘individual’ directory, not an ‘organization’ directory (and obviously, they were all in the same country).  A little wonky work-around, but it works for that specific application.  YMMV.

Of note: I hadn’t looked at TilePlus when I did this… I might have just bought that template too had I seen it. :)

[Mitch]

Hey Steven,

I’ve got to be doing something wrong here. In theory, your idea (above) makes sense. Here’s what I have done:

I create a ‘new’ page that I place connections shortcode (only) on, and make THAT the ‘home’ page for connections;

I have the ‘other’ page which has multiple connections shortcodes and intro/exit text and images above and below the connections shortcode. THAT page is NOT the connections ‘home’ page, but I link to it in the menu;

When I am open the ‘other’ page (e.g. via menu link/where I have people ‘land’ when linked to the database), and click the title (permalink) of the connections entry, it loads the ‘other’ page layout not the ‘home’ page. Therefore, all of the multiple shortcodes and intro/exit text is there, when I didn’t think it should be.

so when clicking the company name in the record, instead of ‘URL/homepagename/name/yourcomnpanyname’

it launches ‘URL/otherpagename/name/yourcomnpanyname’

I thought the ‘home’ page would be where the permalinks landed?

Does my explanation make sense?  Any guidance?

Thanks!

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