[Steven Zahm]

@ eve

I suggest either the Tile or Tile Plus templates. Choose Tile Plus if you need searching and category filtering.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Timothy

The email address… did you set the email address as private or unlisted? Set as unlisted only the admin can see. Set as private, that would depend on what roles you gave permissions to see private under the Connections : Roles admin page.

[Steven Zahm]

@ bobbyau

I’m not exactly sure what you mean by panels? Do you mean the individual entries on the page?

Google is going to look at the page title of the individual page and indexes that page’s content to that page. The Connections entries are marked using the hCard micro data which helps Google better parse the page contents.

From what I can tell, everything is working just fine…

For example this search finds roaster where it exists on both pages on your site:
site:http://cuptaste.com/ Barosaa Coffee Roasters

When I check for the hCard micro data using Google’s testing tool, it is finding all the roaster correctly:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fcuptaste.com%2Fcoffee-roasters%2Fsouth-australian-coffee-roasters%2F

If I search for just “Barosaa Coffee Roasters” Google returns over 13,000 results for me … so your site could be anywhere in that result set as the order is determined by Google.

If you would like individual entries to be index, possibly, better by Google, you could enable the Name link option under the Advanced tab on the Connections : Settings admin page.

If you do that, then I highly recommend tweaking your setup since you’re using Connections on multiple pages filtered by category. I suggest creating a “Results” page and setting that as the directory home page. This would help prevent the possibility that Google might lower your site rank due to duplicate content.

Will this improve your Google site ranks in the Google search ranking, honestly, only Google knows.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ kar3n

I’m assuming you’re testing while logged in. While logged in you are adding entries with the same permissions as you would be by using the admin add entry page. Which would mean no moderation and no email about an entry needing moderation.

Try logging out and test.

[Steven Zahm]

@ William

I just visited your site and the show map link seems to be working fine. I know Connections does work fine with Adrotate. If you are still having issue, if you leave the plugin active cause this activated I can take a look and possible provide a solution.

[Steven Zahm]

@ jon605

You can still do that with version 3. That is a core feature that will always be available.

To disable search and the category select, see these doc pages:
http://connections-pro.com/documentation/template/cmap/option/enable_search/
http://connections-pro.com/documentation/template/cmap/option/enable_category_select/

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Casey

1.) You’d have to edit the template. But I guess you’re already doing that…

In the profile.php file you would use <?php echo $entry->getExcerpt(); ?> instead of <?php echo $entry->getBioBlock(); ?>

But before you make that change duplicate the card function and name the duplicate as card_single. Now, duplicate the $template->part line and change card to card_single. In the card function you would use getExcerpt and in the card_single you would use getBioBlock.

1. Take a look at thee doc page for order_by.
2. You would need a template that support the search feature.
3. Not in the currently released version. Version 0.8 which is soon to be released does have a developers API to create custom fields. However, there is no searching and filtering implemented. You’d be better off using categories and one of the template that support filtering by category.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Timothy

Yes, is what you need to do is create a second page, lets call it the “Results” page. You would add just the [connections] shortcode with no options. When creating this page take note of the page ID number. After the page is created edit your original filter. Add the home_id option to it. So you would have this: [connections category_name="Families" home_id="X"], where X would equal the “Results” page ID number. What neat with this split page setup is that you can now use a separate template to show the results. You would just add the template option to the “Results” page shortcode like so [connections template="card-bio"].

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Eric

Great to hear!

If you have a moment, I would truly appreciate a review as they really do make a difference. Many thanks in advance!
http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/connections

[Steven Zahm]

@ Eric

Take a look at this doc page on how to change the number of entries per page. The doc is for cMap but the same instructions apply to Market.

Hope that helps!

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