[Steven Zahm]

@ Miguel

Sorry, no, there is not a way to commingle the WP search results with the data from Connections.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

It can be done using this method.

For a featured section you could create a “Featured” category and put the shortcode on the page twice. The first one limited to the “Featured” category and the second for general results. If you do, the lock shortcode option could be useful in order to make sure the “locked” shortcode instance is not effect by search and category selection choice made by the user. The downside is that the featured instance would be shown on on the single entry page too. One way around that would be to create a “Results” page and direct the links to it with the home_id. On the “Results” page you would just use the [connections] shortcode with no options. You could get creative though and use the template shortcode option on the page so the results are shown in a different template.

I hope that isn’t confusing and makes sense.

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@ Michael

Cool, do you have a link where I can see you implementation.

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@ susan582

Ok, the link I gave originally was the correct one. However, is only outputs a list of upcoming birthdays and anniversaries.

The correct usage of that shortcode would be:

[upcoming_list list_type='anniversary']

I don’t currently have a method of pulling the info for the other date types to create a listing, sorry.

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@ Sowmya

I don’t know what that would cause this issue. I’ve googled around quite a bit and couldn’t find anything relevant. The query is fairly basic and I have had no other reports of this throughout the years using this query. Has to be some type of configuration issue. Unfortunately I don’t know what direction to point you in for a solution.

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@ josh901

It appears you are using W3TC. Great plugin. I use it too. However, you have the JS being minified on auto, my guess. Even though the JS file for Connections is compatible, not all plugin’s and theme’s JS files are. And when the are minified together they cause fatal errors that prevent the scripts from working fully. That is what is happening for you. If you disable the JS minification things will work correctly. You can still use this feature in W3TC but you should use the manual method that way you can exclude plugin’s and theme’s JS file that do not minify well with others.

Hope that helps

[Steven Zahm]

@ Travis

I’ll be updating this forum thread instead.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mariette

Sure, see this doc page. The value you would use with the template shortcode option can be found on the Connections : Template admin page.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Blake

Yes, the rewrite addresses all these issues. I definitely recommend downloading the update.

In the Tips section of the new instructions I made specific mention of the entry type and visibility column. Those are now case insensitive. At the code level I just convert everything to lowercase. Admittedly, it was pretty dumb of me not to do that in the first place.

One of the new items is a dynamically list of column names for fields in Connections. That way if I add a new field in Connections, I do not need to manually make the change to the CSV Import, so it is a little bit smarter. There are also links to an updated Excel which already has the column headers set. It’s not being created dynamically yet, but it is on the to do list. I also added a link to a text file so the names can be copy/pasted. I think those two assets should be of great help.

Probably the biggest change is the import occurs in chunks of 100 using AJAX rather than attempting to do it all in one dump. Large CSV files would hit server resource limits. My one test CSV file which has over 10,000 rows imports just fine on a shared host with very little in resources without issue. I’m probably going to change the chunk size after more testing to 300 to 500 at a time.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

Sounds like the is a CSS float that needs cleared that the theme is setting. You’ll need to share a link to you site so I can take a look to figure out what the CS teak would be.

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