[Steven Zahm]

@ Oliver

If your webserver is running Apache you can drop a .htaccess file in the ../wp-content/uploads/connections-images/ folder. Here’s a link to a tutorial. You could also drop a blank index.php file in that folder.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Larry

Great to hear!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Larry

Sounds like WP failed to apply the update properly. It’s rare but does happen. Using FileZilla, delete the connections folder in the ../wp-content/plugins/ folder. Then install Connections again. All settings and entries including their images are safe and will be available after you reinstall Connections.

Hope this helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Margaret

It appears it has been turned off in the setting. You can go back in the settings and turn it back on.

Navigate to the Connections :: Settings admin page and click the Display tab. Scroll down to the Single Entry section and enable the “Show the “Add to Addressbook…” Entry Action option.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Nguetta Nzoré

Presently there is not a way to register a user and submit a Connections entry at the same time as Connections as Connections does not process WordPress user registrations. Many other users do is use a user registration plugin of which there are many great options available that feature admin approval of the user registrations. After the user has been admin approved and when the user logs in, the admin has it setup so the user is directed to a “member area” page from here the user is then given instructions on how to add/edit their directory entry.

I do have a new solution that may interest you, it’s just not available in the store yet as I am still preparing it. I have a new addon coming called Gravity Forms Connector. It will allow you to use Gravity Forms and their User Registration add-on to create a custom Gravity Form which will both process user registration and add a Connections entry. However I would only recommend this solution to those that are professional web developers with experience with Gravity Forms otherwise it may be overwhelming and frustrating due to the amount of setup required by requiring two custom Gravity Forms and configuration of their feed settings for Connections and User registration. If this is you and you are interested in this solution, here’s the link the Gravity Forms Connector doc page for your review. It is definitely still a work in progress. If you’d like to pursue this solution, we can work out a way to get you an advance copy of this addon.

Hope this helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Katia

[connections category=16] or [connections category=15] are correct. The quotes are only required when stringing together multiple category ID/s. Their removal is the shortcode being “cleaned”. What is important is the results shown on the page. Have both pages been updated to us only these two shortcodes? If they are. PLease send me a login so I can review. The details can be posted here as a private reply.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Katia

RE: Thanks for the input, but it didn’t change anything. Still displaying the same.

Are you certain you have the correct category IDs? I see 6 listed categories but 12 ID/s in the shortcode. That could simply be because the other are empty … but I would like to confirm. It appears on your consultation page you may want this [connections category="15"] and on your practitioner page you would want this [connections category="16"] but it is not really possible for me to know because I am not sure what your goal is

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

RE: I thought this was supposed to be resolved with the latest update? Is there something I am missing?

The search has been expanded to support registered text and textarea custom fields registered following this tutorial.

I took a look at your site, nice work on customizing cMap! It appears you are using the “Custom Fields” metabox in the admin vs using the custom fields covered in the tutorial. This might be a bit confusing.

Apologies for the confusion! It stems from core WordPress terminology. The “Custom Fields” metabox (with the drop down) are different from the registered “custom fields”. I’ll try to explain…

Take a look at the add WordPress Page/Post, you will also find the “Custom Fields” metabox… and, very likely, you’ll have “custom fields” added by the theme and other plugins. The “custom field” added by following the tutorial adds new custom fields like the theme and plugins added fields to the add page/post.

So…

The custom field added by following the tutorial will display as its own metabox as its own input just as they do when the theme or plugin adds a “custom field” to the WordPress page/post page. It is these that search was expanded to support.

What can you do…

You can still follow the tutorial and use your existing data. When registering the text fields, for the field_id use the Name, exactly, as entered in the “Custom Fields” metabox. Do this will cause the the field to become private and will no longer be listed in the “Custom Fields” metabox. Instead it will show up as a new input field with you existing data.

You will also need to update the template following the tutorial so the data will be displayed.

And search… after you do the above, if you navigate to the Connections : Settings admin page and click the Search tab, you’ll find you have the option to define which fields will be searched. You can enable the custom fields you wish to have searched.

I hope this makes sense, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Bertha

RE: I exported from Business Dir but I’m not seeing the image urls in the export

There’s no reference to the images at all in the export? I’m not really familiar with what is included in their export. Could you attach a copy so I can take a look?

RE: if I import the CSV without the image URL, how can I assign it later? When I go to edit the entry, it only allows me to upload a file. Is there a way to select from my media gallery?

That is the only way to upload the image. Connections does not use the Media Library because I have a lot of users who have thousands of entries, some with tens of thousands. Cluttering up the Media Library with all these images would make the Media Library difficult to locate anything when you actually needed it. And, since the files meta info is stored in the same place in the database where WP pages and posts are could potentially reduce performance of the entire site due the the extra resources that would be required for the database to sort thru that extra information.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Katia

The issue is that the shortcode is invalid, it should be like this:

[connections category="16,2,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14"]

Basically there are way too many quotes which is causing the WordPress shortcode parser to not read it correctly.

Hope this helps!

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