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Hi Steve,

Must be a busy week. Can you let us know (at least) and ETA on a response for this ticket? We’d like to prove out the sorting process as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Patrick

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Hi Steve,

We want to allow people to sort pre-established short-coded listing by Town. Would this same “custom field” option be the best approach?

The screenshot has two items in a category list of jewelers — We’d like to sort this and other similar, short-coded category lists by Town.

Thank you!

Patrick

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Dear Steven,

While I believe you have a great plugin, cross-referencing WP Post and Connections proprietary table data through a custom sql query would be really helpful.

— Users don’t think they won’t find directories through WP searches.

I understand this is the way you have written your plugin, but I just want to register that it would be terrific to not have relatively isolated data (in this world of elegant APIs…) or inside our own WP sites.

Best
Patrick

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Thank you for all your help.
Please consider this closed.
Best,
Patrick

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Hi again Steven,

Might I be able to rewrite the URL so each directory listing link point to a single directory entry?

For example:

http://www.visitor.com/stay/name/particular-inn-restaurant/
go instead to:
http://www.visitor.com/directories/name/particular-inn-restaurant/

We would just have to rewrite the first subdirectory “stay/name” (etc.) portion.

This would help us structure the pages more efficiently.

Thanks!!
Patrick

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Hi Steven,

Can I give you access to the page, so you can see what it is we’re trying to do? I placed the home_id shortcode, but I believe our application/needs must be seen to remedy/make things work.

Let me know, and I’ll send along the directory pass information via another channel.

Thanks!!
Patrick

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Thanks — but I must get this straight. (please forgive my lack of clarity.)

Using the home_id shortcode option is the trick. using it, you can
tell Connections that the links to point to a different page. The only
requirement is that the target page must have the [connections]
shortcode on it. I recommend using the shortcode with no other options
set.

A scenario might help:
I need to click on a shortcode listing (Let’s call it “Stay”) and go to an individual entry (Let’s call it “Hotel 1”). Currently category shortcodes for accommodations are on “http://www.visitorsite.com/stay/”.

Question: Am I setting up the home_id shortcode on the “…/stay” page? If so, and I follow the logic, each of the pages “accommodations”, “food and drink”, etc would have a “home_id” on it.

If no, I’m sorry, I do not yet get the logic.

If yes!, then all I need to do is identify the id for each of the established pages and place a “home_id” shortcode on each. Then, the individual entry will be its “own page”…

Thanks again for all your help!!

Patrick

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Steven,

Our challenge is that we are using connections shortcodes on several pages. We are using connections as a directory for “accommodations”, “arts and culture”, “food and drink” and “things to do” – each with their own page. (We are creating a visitor site.)

Each of our pages has shortcodes, often stacked in individual groupings to display featured category listings. So, there is no “directory” “home page”.

I can give you a link to the pages, but it will be behind a directory privacy user/password, so I’ll have to share it with you in another manner.

Thank you very much for all your attention!

Patrick

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Hi Steven,

I would like to modify my support request — make it simpler.

Can I programmatically go from a cmap list on one page to the directory entry?

I think my issue is the URL of the list is based on …/stay/name/… and the entry URL is based on …/directories/name/…

Thanks,

Patrick

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