[Steven Zahm]

@ Eric

In short, if I read this correctly, no this is not possible since Connections does not create user accounts.

What I recommend is user a user registration plugin that upon a successful registration redirects to their “Edit My Directory Entry” admin profile page. I know many users have such a setup, but I do not know what plugin they used to handle user registration … there are many freely available one out there.

For what you’re trying to accomplish, you would not need to use Form. Currently the primary purpose of Form is to take submissions to be listed in the directory from site visitors, not intended for site users, that is what Link is for. Hope that make sense. Now with that said, they next version of Form, when Link in installed and active, will allow a user to maintain their entry from the front end. I’m still not quite sure how I’m going to reconcile user maintaining their entry and allowing visitors submit listings but I’m certain as I play with this new feature I figure a way to make it work.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

No, that’s good thing for SEO.

The only way for those links to exist is if they are actual entries, they will not be created for contact names. If you do not want them followed, you’ll have to set those entries as unlisted.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Matt

I don’t really think there is a “best” template for a church directory. All I can say is cMap is the most popular and it would work fine in that theme since the gradient color can be changed/removed.

Here’s a post to another user asking about other church related questions. Maybe some of those answers you’ll find useful too.
http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/church-directory-2/#post-277553

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ cheryl

I don’t really have any public available church examples that I can link you too because churches tend to keep their member directories private to respect the privacy of their members. So I’ll try to answer you questions the best I can…

Well, there are no print option available. So you would not really gain anything their by switching to Connections.

Can more than one family be listed on a page? Well, yes. If you look at any of the examples, they all list more than one entry per page, a family would work the same way.

Through configuration you could achieve a page with a few details that link to a page with more details. There’s a couple methods you could use to achieve this with Connections. The first would to use a mixture of one of the premium templates with one of the core templates. For example use Slim Plus of Tile Plus for your less detail and then use the Card or the Bio Entry card template for the more details. Another way, would be to setup two pages. One page for the list and another for the result/detail. You would need one of the premium templates for this work effectively.

If you decide to use Connections, I can give more thorough directions for both methods.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Paul

Ok, good to hear you’ve got yourself a solution.

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]

@ Bill

I bumped the sizes a tad … I’ve been meaning to that for awhile now.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Niek
This can only be done by editing the PHP code for this extension. You need to edit the connections-siteshot.php file found here:
../wp-content/plugins/connections-siteshot/

Change line 139 from this:
$link = $links[0];

To this:
$link = isset( $links[1] ) ? $links[1] : $links[0];

This should cause SiteShot to use the second link if one exists and if one does not, it’ll use the first link.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Niek

On the Connections : Settings admin page, uncheck the Name option under the Links section and update the settings. Now, the names will not be links.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sean

Ok, just let me know…

[Steven Zahm]

@ Erhard

Ok, I’ll let the dev know … he’ll reply back here in this forum thread.

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