[Steven Zahm]

@ Robert

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]

@ Matthew

You need to use a WordPress feature. Make the page itself private, see this.

I hope that helps!

btw, you still would want to mark the entries private … otherwise someone could still see them if they know the correct URL to use.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ben

I suspect one or both may hook into the login process in a way that prevents Link from running when a user logins in. I’m sure theres a pattern.

Which version of Link do you have installed? there have been a couple recent updates. If you don’t have the latest installed, I recommend updating to see if that resolves the issue.

You feature request … that’s already on the todo list as well as adding a background process that will proactively link users rather than waiting for them to actually login.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Andrew

I don’t think I follow … Connections, nor any of its extensions handles, processes or creates user logins. The registration plugin would have to handle all that and it would also be that plugin that would send you email notification for registrations that require approval. I’m not certain what you want to do with Connections … if you want it so your approved registered users can submit/add an entry to the directory, you must use Link, which at present requires that they visit their “Edit My Directory Entry” admin profile page to add and maintain their entry. Later in the year, Link will integrate with the Form extension to allow frontend submissions for registered users and will allow them to maintain their entry in the frontend too, but that is not available now.

[Steven Zahm]

@ MJA

The page has changed to the file, now it is:

http://www.technopark.org.za/wp-content/plugins/connections/assets/js/jquery.gomap-1.3.2.min.js?ver=1.3.2

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Chris

This would be a sin=mple change.

Open the slim-plus.js file found here:
../wp-content/plugins/connections-slim-plus/ or
../wp-content/plugins/slim-plus/

Remove this line:
$('.cn-hide').css('display', 'none');

Save the file.
Make a duplicate and name it slim-plus.min.js

Upload both, overwriting the originals.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Laura

Yes, but to be clear, the category widget only lists the categories, it will not list the entries beneath the category list. When a user clicks the link of one of the categories, the entry list will be filtered by the category they clicked.

I hope that makes sense!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jeannie B

There is not something I have readily available to do this, but I have a suggestion.

You could use the Tile template to do this using this shortcode in a text widget:
[connections template='tile' limit=1 order_by='id|RANDOM']

You need to do this for the shortcode to work in the text widget.

Hope that helps!

Oh, you don’t really need to use the Tile template, but I think that would provide the best fit.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Eric

For what you want to do, you would need to use Link, but that would require the user to submit their details using “Edit My Directory Entry” admin profile page. Form will have an update so it integrates with Link to allow frontend editing later this year. So requiring the edits in the admin would be temporary.

You wouldn’t need to use a role editor for permissions, that is built into Connections. It on the Connections : Roles admin page. You would select Add Entry and Edit Entry under the roles your users would be registered with. With the capabilities set like this, you would not be required to moderate the submissions.

I hope that helps clear things up a little.

As for the rich text editor. You could change the code in Connections which limits the editing tools that are available. The image insertion is remove only because that allows access to the WordPress Image library.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Chris

I looked at the example site again … sometimes they change and also I need to remind myself what they did.

I looks like they did this manually. Looking at the page source it appears they created a page for each category and then used the WordPress Menu editor to create custom menus that linked to their category pages. Lastly they seem to use an accordion widget to place those custom menus in the sidebar.

Oh, the page with the table, looks like they created that manually too.

I guess the short answer is, no, you do not need to purchase anything.

There solution probably could have been simplified a little. They really didn’t need to create a page for each category as they could have used the category URL with custom links in the menu editor.

I hope that helps!

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