[Steven Zahm]

@ Sean

When you updated the files in Connections, did you update the chosen.min.css file with the one from The Events Manager? I ask because it sill seems like the old one is being loaded.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Gayle

You can post it here, I referenced this thread in my issue tracker. Or, you can send it via the contact link at the bottom of the page.

Many thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ leonardo

Could a get a temp admin account so I can get a closer look as to what the issue might be? You can post the login info here as a private reply.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jake

No problem … 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]

@ Danni

Yes, a couple other uses have reported the very same issue. I believe I have found and fixed the error. I will be pushing out another update in a few hours or so, version 0.7.9.5, which will fix this.

Apologies for the trouble.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Allen

No problem, thanks for the consideration. I have resolved the issue. It seems when I added the extra sanitation of the query variables for categories the queries were being wrapped in a second set or quotes which would cause an invalid query. I’ll be pushing version 0.7.9.5 out a little later today. I highly encourage you to update because the fix in version 0.7.9.4 was to close a potential xss security issue.

The only plugin affected is the core Connections plugin, the template and other extensions are unaffected.

Apologies for the trouble!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Grady

No, querying counting public entries in each category would be extremely db intensive. It just would scale well.

My thought is since I just added full support for entry meta which is to support custom fields; this could be extended to support taxonomy (category) meta. If I do that, then when an entry is added/updated the count for the categories could be calculated and saved in this meta. Doing this would allow me to have the grunt work done only when adding/updating an entry then pull this data based on user permissions to show the correct count. This still could mean an extra db request for each category be displayed instead of just the one presently, but those queries would at least be really quick to execute.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Allen

To help me resolve this .. could I get a temp admin account? What I’d like to do is put the site in maintenance mode, update Connections so I can knowingly and easily replicate the issue. The issue should be very easy to track down and fix on your site. After I have confirmed the fix, I disable maintenance mode leaving the update and the fix in place. I will then fix my code locally and push out an update that you can safely update.

[Steven Zahm]

@ leonardo

Ok, as an experiment, could you remove an ID that you know is showing. The purpose would be to see if the WordPress Shortcode API has a text limit on shortcode options.

Another item I just noticed. The id option is using fancy quotes instead of straight quotes. WordPress doesn’t support the use of fancy quotes in the shortcode. Try this one, I removed the fancy quotes:

[connections id='1,5,6,7,8,11,12,14,21,27,44,45,46,69,70,71,73,75,79,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95' page_limit=50 width='600' order_by='city' enable_category_select=FALSE enable_search=FALSE enable_map=FALSE str_work_phone='Tel:' show_addresses=FALSE str_bio_show='' str_note_show='' image_width=160 image=siteshot]

[Steven Zahm]

Apologies for the tardy reply! I missed this in my support queue.

You have two option. The first one is the method I recommend. There is a feature that you can enable to require a user to login before viewing the directory. The second option is to use the WordPress feature to password protect that page that you insert the [connections] shortcode on. This is useful if you want only a single password to distribute. However, if the person knows Connections very well, they could work around this to view specific entries. If you chose this method instead of creating users, probably not much of an issue because distributing a single password isn’t all that secure either.

You can use the CSV Import extension to bulk import your data to build the initial directory. You can use the Link extension to allow your users the ability to maintain their own data.

Hope that helps.

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