[Steven Zahm]

@ Regev

In main navigation menu add custom links to the various Connections categories instead of linking to a page with the Connections shortcode limit the category and then entry your category description in the description field on the Connections : Categories admin page. And finally go to the Connections : Settings admin page and enable the display of the Category Description under the Display tab.

Here’s a sample custom link to a Connections category:
domain.tld/directory-homepage/cat/category-slug

You can use the $entry->getName() method just to return the name that you can use to wrap in your own markup.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Christopher

Sticky entries, this year. Can’t say when, but I would say sooner than later.

I want to add finer control to the user role capabilities to allow the separation of features based on user role. Agin, I’d say this year, but later than sooner due the amount of code re-work that will be required to make sure this works and doesn’t break anything for anyone.

Hope that answers your questions thoroughly.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Christopher

Would simply setting the entry to be “Unlisted” work?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dustin

Ok, I read this a few times and if I got it right, its the same issue for both scenarios … the field that stores the family relationships is not searched at all. The technical reason for why not is that that field stores the relationships as a serialized array which is not easily searched at the database level. The only way I could think of doing this would be to first query all families, only the relationship field, unserialeze, loop thru search for matches. The problem with doing that would be is it is not scalable. At x-number, it just would work.

Searching between category when limited at the shortcode level just won’t work. Doing that would break everyone’s directory who relies on that category separation to create multiple directories.

With all that said, I not able to come up with anything that can be done easily to get what you want … the closest would be to create a custom link to you directory page that points to the “Member Directory” category like so:
domain.tld/directory?cn-cat=x

x equals the category ID number of the “Member Directory” category.

You would then have to make one edit to a core PHP file in Connections so searches wouldn’t be limited to the “Member Directory” category. You would delete this line.

I think that would get you really close to a working solution. The problem is you would then have to delete that same line upon updates to Connections.

I hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ juan

Yes you can by using categories to divide the directory. Please take a look at this FAQ for cMap.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

Ok, I see … you’ll have to create a CSS gradient that is compatible with every browser. I use the Colorzilla CSS Gradient Generator.

Since you have the latest Tile Plus installed now … you can use these two new options. You could simply change the background color to black or you could disable both by setting the back ground to no and and turning off the gradient so you can easily use your own CSS for the gradient.

As for linking the name … sorry, not possible without editing the core template file and writing a bit of custom code. The reason is that the name is reserved for linking to the individual entry page.

[Steven Zahm]

@ rediar

You have a custom CSS style that is breaking the gradient, you’ll have to remove that.

Also, it seems you have not updated to Tile Plus 3.1, Tile Plus 3.0.1 is still being used. Try reinstalling it again.

When editing an entry, the links have an option to link the URL to the photo or logo. You can also define if the link should open a new window or not.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Deniz

Do you have Link installed?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Nancy

I’m sorry, I’m completely unsure of what you’re asking.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Soniya

The search in the widget pack would be just like the search in the template you’re using. The difference is that is can be placed in the theme’s sidebars.

The category widget functions just like the post category widget you have in your sidebar currently. The difference would be that the categories listed would be those that are entered in Connections and when clicked would filter the entry list based on the category clicked.

Hope that helps!

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