[Steven Zahm]

@ Maurice

I do not believe I’ve seen this error before. A quick Google search led me to this page (and many more like it)

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/apache-mod-security-update-how-to-fix-error-406-or-not-acceptable-issue-259

Seems it is a server configuration item. Please try the solutions provided in the above link. You web host should also be able to help you with this.

Let me know how it goes.

ps. There have been no significant change in how Connections saves and entry in ages. If fact it simply uses the WordPress DB API, nothing fancy — so to speak.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sheldon

That should do it if the newsletter plugin processes shortcodes when they pull the post content. Clever solution! :)

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dev

RE: Why am i not getting notifications of these replies

Make sure you have checked the “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” before you submit. If it checked, try looking in your spam/junk folder, perhaps they’re getting flagged.

As for the FTP account… You need to contact your web host for support. You can create new accounts with your host. What will make it temporary is that you can delete that account after I am done.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Karin

RE: where I can find out the meaning of the Abreviations like “cn-entry”. Or is that a secret because part of the code?

there’s nothing secret about them… that is just one of the many CSS classes you can use as CSS selectors. You can easily find these class by using your browser’s element inspector.

Changing the size of the search field is not so simple.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Tim

Did you try the CSS I gave you??? If not, give it a try.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Tim

Set the section head so they are not displayed:

#cn-cmap .cn-list-section-head {
    display: none;
}

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Carol

If you are migrating an entire site then I recommend you use a plugin like Duplicator or BackupBuddy. If you want to migrate only the Connections data, it is possible but will require a moderate amount of work.

To start, Connections should not be installed on the destination site. If you have installed it, uninstall it and then use phpMyAdmin to drop the {wpdb_prefix}connections* from the WordPress database. There are 13 of them.

First, go to the Connections Tools admin page and export the settings.

Now, login into the source site and go to the Connections Settings admin page. Disable the FULLTEXT search option

Next, log into the source site’s phpMyAdmin and export those 13 tables as a SQL file. Use the quick export or default export options. I forget what the exact terminology is.

Log into the destination site phpMyAdmin and import that SQL file.

After the import is complete, you will need to change the wpdb_prefix of the imported table to match the wpdb_prefix of the destination site.

Now, log into the source site via FTP and navigate to the ../wp-content/uploads/ folder. You will find a folder named connections-images. Download that entire folder.

Next log into the destination site via FTP and navigate ../wp-content/uploads/ and upload the connections-images you just downloaded.

Now you can install and activate Connections on the destination site.

Import the settings on the Connections Tools admin page.

Lastly, toggle the FULLTEXT option on the Connections Settings admin page under the Search tab. Do this by disabling it and saving the setting, then enabling it and saving the setting. This will ensure the FULLLTEXT indices are created if the db supports it.

It sounds like a lot but it actually pretty quick with most time spent on logging in and out of the various part of the two sites.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Karin

Add this to the theme’s custom CSS area:

#cn-cmap .cn-entry {
    font-size: 16px !important;
}

#cn-cmap h3 .fn {
    font-size: 24px !important;
}

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sheldon

RE: Any advice on ‘unhiding’ this information?

Well, the info is not hidden in any way… It sounds like the newsletter plugin simply pulls recents posts. Connections does not use posts, it uses custom tables for performance and scalability reasons. Many plugins use custom post types, storing data which was not really well suited to be stored as a post, now, many of the larger/popular plugins are going thru major migration efforts to port that data from custom post types to custom tables due to the negative performance impact it has caused them.

That said, if the newsletter plugin has a location which allows you to put in a message or something, you could copy/paste the info from the Connections Dashboard admin page before sending out the newsletter.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Juan

You installed the beta version of the CSV Import Correct? Please login to your site using FTP and navigate to this folder:

../wp-content/plugins/connections/vendor/parse-csv/

You should see three files there, do you? What are their names?

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