[Steven Zahm]

@ Robyn

Great to hear!

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

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dii

If you running the very latest version of Excerpt Plus, the path will be:
../wp-content/plugins/connections-excerpt-plus/

Can you find it now?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Robyn

Well, ok, now this does make sense. Go to the Connections : Settings admin page and uncheck the require login to view the directory option and click save changes.

That should do it.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

In a couple months, I hope.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Basil

Can you attach a copy of the CSV file you’re importing as a private reply, so I can see why?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

Not presently. Just a few weeks ago I added support for “entry tokens”. Think of them as shortcodes for entry details. The idea you will be able to add these entry tokens to the email body/message and those tokens will be swapped out / replaced with the actual entry details. The purpose is to enable exactly what you’re asking.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ben

This is already on the todo list to add to Link.

There is something that you can do that can ease this a little. It just requires a very small PHP tweak. If you’re editing the db directly, then I’m guessing you’ll be able to do this…

Open the connections_link file and go to line 567. You should see this:

// if ( empty( self::$userID ) ) {

// 	// Grab the current user object.
// 	$user = wp_get_current_user();

// 	// Run the link on login function.
// 	self::processLinkOnLogin( '', $user );

// 	// Set the current user's Connections ID ... if a link was created.
// 	self::setUserID();
// }

Un-comment the code lines, save and upload. Oh, make sure you on the latest version of Link; 1.0.5.

How this can help… well, maybe you could setup some type of redirect where the user is sent to the Link admin page, will check for and create as needed without requiring a logout/login. If that is possible, all you would need to do is login as the user and vist the Link admin page. Still a hassle but far easier that having to mess with the db.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Robyn

Password protecting pages is a WordPress feature/function. Connections does not interact with that at all. With that said, I really don’t know why you would not be able to remove a password. How are you determining that a page is till password protected if WordPress says it is not?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Gayle

Well, the short of it is that I do not think Connections would be a good fit for you as it doesn’t seem to have some features that would be a must. I outline the areas Connections will not meet your needs…

A custom template could be done for you. I have a dev I could recommend that has plenty of experience working with Connections and its templates.

Currently Connections does not support custom fields. This is implement in the dev version and will be part of the next release. However, it would still require a dev to add the fields as there is no point and click method to add them yet. It is just the under laying ground work support that is complete.

Connections does not have a form builder and it does not integrate with other form builders. I does have an extension, called Form, but this is more or less a “static” plug and play form. Sections can be turned off, but that is about it is as far as customization.

An entry can have multiple n-addresses. Not sure that would completely meet you needs because you could not really define or notate which address is which parent’s home.

There also would not be a way to enable a parent to have editing access to each of the children’s entries. They would only be able to edit their own entry (if the Link extension is installed) if one exists.

There is no integration with mailchimp or other bulk email service.

There is not a method for entries to communicate with other entries within the directory.

At some point in the future Connections may be a fit because much of this could be done with features I have planned as well as extension I want to develop for Connections. But this will not happen in any time frame to be of use to you now, sorry.

It almost seems like you need a custom BuddyPress setup. Have you thought about tackling the problem from that angle?

[Steven Zahm]

@ NetWarden

Sorry, there isn’t a way to make the note field in the admin text only … you would have to rewrite this section of code. No filters or snippets can accomplish this.

Yes, the code edit to Form to remove the rte is temporary. I added a note to my issue tracker to add the shortcode options. That will likely be included in the next release since it is a simple beneficial change.

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