[Steven Zahm]

@ John

There is not yet a way to mark featured entries. There is the Custom Entry Order extension. With this you could set the order of the entries you wish to have list top and in a specific order.

To set an entry to display at the top, you would set the entry order to 1. To have an entry show second, after the entry assigned to 1 you would assign that entry the order of 2. If there is no entry assigned as 1, then the entry assigned 2 would actually be first.

That said, I would recommend setting order by 10’s or even 100’s. This will allow you the opportunity to insert entries in between others. For example having entries assigned orders of 100, 200 and 300 would display those entries in that order at the top. So you could insert an entry in between 100 and 200 by assigning the order as 150.

Hope that makes sense!

As for “highlighting them…

You could create a “Featured” category and assign the entries you wish to feature to that category. That category name will be applied to the the entry class names which you could use CSS to target to change the visual style to however you wish to make them stand out.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Scott

The path you are using:

../wp-content/themes/updated-child-theme/connections-templates/cmap.php

This is incorrect, you need the template slug too, as mentioned in the dev doc. The file name is not correct either. It needs to be card.php or card-single.php. I would suggest starting with a copy of one of the original files. Like this:

../wp-content/themes/updated-child-theme/connections-templates/card.php

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Scott

The path you are using:

../wp-content/themes/updated-child-theme/connections-templates/cmap.php

This is incorrect, you need the template slug too, as mentioned in the dev doc. The file name is not correct either. It needs to be card.php or card-single.php. I would suggest starting with a copy of one of the original files. Like this:

../wp-content/themes/updated-child-theme/connections-templates/card.php

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Beverly

Ok, great to hear!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kristin

RE: What is the CSS to change the blue color of the A-Z listing?

This is picked up from the formatting applied by the theme for links. Your CSS is almost correct. It should be:

#cn-list .cn-alphaindex a {
    color: #00c4d9;
}

RE: The formatting when in Search mode is a little off. The bullet sentence is below the box, And I would like more padding under the Clear Search button

This too is being caused by the theme. For some reason list items and buttons are being floated left, globally. Add the following to the theme’s custom CSS area to correct:

#cn-list ul,
#cn-list ul li,
#cn-list .button {
    float: none;
}

To increase the bnottom margin use:

#cn-search-messages {
    margin-bottom: 50px
}

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

You can activate your support license on a localhost install and it will not count towards the activation limit. Here’s the link to a explains this in more detail.

I hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Michael

Sorry to hear your are having trouble! You do not need to register for an account to make a purchase, one is created for as part of the purchase process.

• To make a purchase, add you chosen item(s) to the cart.
• Click the Checkout button or click the cart icon is the upper right. You will be redirected to the checkout page.
• On the checkout page:
  • Choose your desired payment method.
  • Fill in the name, email, username and password fields. This is the info used to create your account.
  • Agree to the terms and conditions by checking the box.
  • Lastly, click the Purchase button.

Hope that helps!

ps. The link “How do I register?” you found, is a support forum FAQ found in the right side bar of this page.

pss. A couple times a year I get asked how to register on the support forum so a question can be asked … That FAQ addresses this by saying an account is not required to post a question.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sylvie

RE: If translating labels is not an option in the CMap template, could I substitute text with icons (for open map, close map and bio)?

Translation of these labels are 100% possible. You can use your desired method of creating translations. I recommend using either POedit or the Loco Translate plugin. Any translations that you create, if you could send me the PO files, I will distribute them with the template in updates.

RE: To solve the category localization issue, how easy would it be to copy the original directory, making the necessary amendments for the next language?

Well, I suppose you could use the CSV Export tool found on the Connections : Tools admin page under the Export tab. You would want to use the Export All tool at the bottom.

You could then make all your changes, including the translated category names. IMPORTANT, you would have to remove the Entry ID column. If you do not remove that column, then the changes would be applied to the original entries.

Then you could import the updated file using the CSV Import extension.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sylvie

I’m not sure of what you mean by widget in this context. Could you give me more details?

Thanks

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sylvie

Ok, then you need to do the opposite of what I said in my previous reply. Disable the display option and use the [connections_categories]. However, you will need a page in which to display the directory with the [connections] shortcode. The [connections_categories] shortcode will need to have the home_id option to point to the page with the [connections] shortcode.

Hope that helps!

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