[Steven Zahm]

@ Henryk

Sorry but I do not understand the question?

Are your asking how to create a custom Google search for Connections? If you are, I honestly do not know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ janice

Using cMap should work just fine.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Godfreyh

That great! … You can ignore my email then. I was just working on it.

[Steven Zahm]

@ janice

It’s the theme that need to be responsive, not Connections; the template for Connections need to be fluid in design so they fit well within a responsive theme. I hope that isn’t confusing.

Anyway, back in March all templates received major updates, Market included. So I really recommend updating Connections [first] and then Market. One of the new features implemented in all template, except Market, was making sure they fit in responsive themes at various screen sizes. Sorry, but I do not plan on making Market responsive ready so if that is a priority you’ll need one of the other templates.

[Steven Zahm]

Ok, I spent this gorgeous Sunday afternoon creating a custom metabox and field API for Connections. The framework is very solid; even though it doesn’t actually save/retrieve the custom data just yet.

I am looking for input; so if you could install the alpha release of Connections and the Connections Metabox and Field Demo plugins and provide some, that would be terrific! You could install this on a production site as the only real change to the Connections core is including the PHP file that contains the new API and initialize it. It also couple CSS tweaks for the fields related to the custom fields. The demo plugin nothing but register new meta boxes and fields.

The second plugin is just a demo plugin that adds 4 custom meta boxes with over a dozen different custom fields to the bottom the the add/edit entry admin pages using the new API.

Link to the Connections version 0.8-alpha.1 plugin.
Link to the Connections Custom Fields and Metaboxes Demo plugin.

What’s left to do?

• Add another, almost, dozen field type to the API.
• Write an API for saving/retrieving the custom data.
• Document the demo plugin and upload it to GitHub.
• Figure out how this interfaces with the template API.

What’s the future hold for this?

• There will be a separate Extension Connections to add/managing custom metabox and fields. Will this be free or paid? Undecided. I would actually prefer free, but this will increase support.
• The API is designed from the ground up to be extensible on its own. What this means; I’ll be able to create extension custom fields for things like galleries; sliders maps and more. Cool, yes?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Aredon

Sorry, what I meant was a screenshot showing the loading time of the page that includes you custom query.

Thanks for the CSV files. I’ll import them in my test setup to see if I can duplicate and what tweaks I can implement for better performance.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Enrique

Size isn’t determined by Connections. It all has to do with the server/PHP configuration. Generally though those multi-megapixel images from point and shoot cameras and cell phones are going to be too large. You can not go by file size either, because that is just the size of compressed. It is actually much, much larger when the image is opened.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mitch

Custom fields are definitely still on the roadmap. Time frame is hard to pin down but 0.7.9 finally has me to the point in all the code restructuring where things like this are relatively easily added.

@ Mike

With the release of 0.7.9, this should be somewhat easy for your freelancers to do. actually they should do it with very little editing to the Connections core at all and if they are very clever in the implementation I belie it could be pulled off by creating and extension plugin for Connections. Matter of fact, that is exactly how I’m going to do it. Changes to the core to make this more efficient would is to add hooks so plugins can manipulate the core query to include metadata and a few other things that’ll be part of the version .8

[Steven Zahm]

@ Enrique

No more suggestions that what I gave before. What happens when adding an entry without an image? What happens when you add an entry with a smaller image?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Godfreyh

No problem. Can I have a temp admin account so I can take a closer look?

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