[Steven Zahm]

@ James

You must first enable the “View All Categories” result list action.

The link will not display until you enable it.

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

Yes but not easily. This should get you started:

input#cn-search-input {
    font-size: 14px;
    height: 32px;
    line-height: 32px;
}

input#cn-search-submit {
    height: 32px;
}

Add this to the theme’s custom CSS area. Tweak as desired.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jörg Rohde-Heise

Does your chosen theme have a visual page builder which uses the standard WordPress content area for the page content?

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

Enable the “View All Categories” result list action.

This will place a link above the directory which will be a link that shows nothing but the categories.

Copy this link.

Now, navigate to the WordPress Menus admin page under Appearance.

Replace the link to the directory page with a Custom Link. In the Custom Link item, paste the link that you copied and Link Text matching the page name.

After you save your updated menu… when you click on the directory page name in the menu of the site’s frontend, you will actually be take to the directory categories page. From their yo can click on a category to view the entries within the category.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

You do not have to use the search widget… enable the keyword search feature for Gridder.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

Yes, that is the correct behavior. Display all entries allowing the user to filter by category.

What you could do… instead of adding the link to the directory home page, you could link to the Connections View All Categories page in the site’s nav.

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

Yes, that is one of the supported display options in the Enhanced Categories extension (if that is what you are using). The other is the image grid option.

What are you looking for exactly?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jeff

Sorry to hear you are having trouble! This is actually a WordPress error because WordPress failed to properly update the plugin. This is unfortunately out of my control. This is actually a somewhat common error users eventually face and is not limited to Connections as shown by this quick web search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=”Installation+failed%3A+Destination+folder+already+exists.”

WordPress is pretty robust when it comes to installing and upgrading plugins but this process can fail for many reasons.

Luckily the solution to fix this should not not be too difficult. Here’s how:

Log into your site with FTP or by using the web hosts file manager.
Navigate to the ../wp-content/plugins/ folder.
You should find a folder named connections. Delete this folder and only this folder.
Now you can reinstall Connections normally.
You will find all you data is safe after Connections is reinstalled.
There is no need to delete or reinstall any of Connections’ addons such as cMap. It will function properly after Connections is reinstalled.

Hope this helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Diane

Several other have used it quite successfully on their live sites. Not sure of what their file size were. They mostly wanted to use it for the improved feedback during the import process. I’ve been wanting to release it officially but I have been holding off in order to have a few others use it. Personally, I feel it is ready.

YOu would know fairly quickly if it is not working. On the mapping step, that is where the file is parsed and split into batches of machine readable file. On the import step, if you get 2/3 steps in, It should continue on to the end without issue.

During those first few import steps you could have the manage page open in a several tab and spot check a couple entries making sure it matches the CSV file contents.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Diane

Thanks for letting me know!

How large is the file (number of row)?

The beta version of CSV Import is much faster at importing a large number. I tested a file with over 100K and left it run until it imported 20K. The current released version, each import step takes slightly longer than the step immediately preceding it because the CSV has to be parsed and then read on each step. In do so it has to re-read rows already imported in order to get to the rows not imported. The beta version parses the file a single time and then saves the parsed results to a bunch of individual machine readable files. So, on each step, the import only needs to pick the next file in the batch and import data within. On significantly large CSV files, the make massive improvements to the time require to import.

If you are interested in trying the beta, navigate to the Connections : Settings admin page and click the Beta Versions tab. Enable beta support for CSV Import and saved. Next navigate to the WordPress Updates admin page. Nothing to do here, this should simply force WP to check for updates. Now navigate to the Plugins admin page where the beta should be available for you to install.

Hope this helps!

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