[Steven Zahm]

@ Carlos

Sorry, don’t know what to tell you. The template works every single time I try it on your site no matter what browser I use except IE10 when I was testing it this morning, but that was do to another script error. I’ve tried again in IE8 several times throughout the day and I was only able to refresh the site a few times each before it would no longer load. I really think the template is fine.

I’ll look in the div errors IE10 was reporting to make sure I don’t really have a missing tag somewhere, but that could be due the theme or any number of things unrelated to Connections.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

Are there any entries in category 8? Is category 8 a root parent category? Are the entries public?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Shonna

This is possible, but you’d have to edit one of the premium templates in order to do this. It’s not really difficult, the basics would be:

Install a template that has those features, such as cMap.
Copy the template.php from the ../wp-content/plugins/connections/templates/profile/ folder.
Rename it to card.php
Overwrite the card.php file in the template you installed.
Open the {template-name}.min.css, delete its contents, and save.

You should now have a template with the style of the Profile template but with the category dropdown and keyword search.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ryan

Actually, you shouldn’t need to add anything to the core Connections plugin. I’ve been restructuring code myself in order to support this.

1. Create and register a new metabox that get displayed on the add/edit entry admin page.
2. Add a cn_{action-name} that only is fired in the admin.
3. Grab you the values from $_POST.
4. Since I don’t have an entry meta API yet you’ll have to write methods to add/update/delete from the entry_meta table. You’ll also have write methods for retried and display from the entry_meta table, you’ll want to write then in a way that you can use them in the template files.

That’s pretty high level … but it is the same exact path I’m going to take.

[Steven Zahm]

@ slandin

Sorry about that. when I was refactoring some code for this release I hit the “3” instead of the “4” in one spot. That little error broke that. I’ll be pushing out an update, 0.7.8.1, later tonight EST that will fix that and several other little bugs.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Doug

The entry should be in Connections prior to the user logging in. Otherwise, the user should use Link to add their entry. That’s the intended workflow.

What trips people up in testing is that links are check for only once and are persistent. Link will check once when the user logs in and if no match is found, that user is not checked for a match again no matter how often you change the email address in the user or Connections entry. The reason links are persistent is that users change email addresses and you don’t want a link to break because of an email address change. You also don’t want it easy to hijack the links.

With that said, I am working on an update that loosens the restriction slightly. The change is that during every logon if the user was not linked, it’ll search Connections for a match and if found then add a link. What this will allow is the entry for the user to be added at any time and they will be linked to the entry when they next login.

I hope that makes sense!

To test, do this:
Create a new entry with an email address.
Create a new user with the same email address.
Log out of WP.
Login as the new user.
Go to the Edit My Directory Entry admin page.
The user should now be linked to the Connections entry.

If it is not, are you using a membership type plugin? If you are, it is possible it is hijacking the login process before Link has the opportunity to run. If that is the case, I do have a fix I can apply to you site if you grant a temp admin account.

I hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jake

I just triple checked, .9 is definitely the version that is available.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

If you have a multisite WordPress install, yes. Between two independent WordPress installations, no.

To export Connections data, use phpMyAdmin to export the Connections tables as a SQL file. You can then import that SQL file into your other install using phpMyAdmin.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

The error is that you have HTML in the shortcode. Likely inserted from a copy/paste from a web page into the post editor.

This should be correct:

[connections category='8' page_limit=10 pagination_position='after'  show_category_count=TRUE show_contact_name=FALSE str_select='Showcase Filter' enable_category_by_root_parent=true image='logo' str_work_phone='Phone' str_work_addr='' show_title=TRUE enable_bio_head=FALSE enable_note=FALSE str_select_all='' show_email=FALSE show_addresses=FALSE show_phone_numbers=FALSE]

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Daniel

Yes it is possible to change the name format. By default it is this:
[connections name_format='%prefix% %first% %middle% %last% %suffix%']

To change it to last name first, do this:
[connections name_format='%last%, %first%']

There is not a way to “hide” the email address. If spam bots are your concern, please checkout the ROT13 Email Encryption Extension.

Hope that helps.

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