[Steven Zahm]

@ Jason

Great to hear!

If you have a moment, I would truly appreciate a review as they really do make a difference.

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/connections/reviews/

Thanks in advance for your time!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Thomas

There is a beta addon for Connections which I offer, on request, to those who purchased the Pro Pack.

I freely give it as a free addon in the bundled price. The reason it is not officially part of the bundle is because I still consider it a beta product. With the release of WP5, my goal for this year is to build it as a block which can be used and configured in the new editor.

You can see it in action on this third part site:

https://sscit.org/directory/

I consider this beta software, though safe to run on live sites. It can be difficult to configure due to the complicate shortcode structure to configure the multiple category setup. If you are familiar with shortcodes it should not be too difficult. They styling is as is, though I can give you CSS to apply you own color (instead of blue).

[Steven Zahm]

@ John

The code would not correspond since the other user was customizing the cMap template.

The folder and file path is still applicable though.

Using $entry->excerpt(); in the card.php file is sufficient to display the excerpt (a helper function that has been added since that discussion).

After you get it working, I highly suggest moving the card.php file one of the paths outlined in the template override doc.

• https://connections-pro.com/2014/06/04/quicktip-custom-template-override-files/

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Thomas

This should be the file/folder:

../wp-content/theme/{child-theme}/connections-templates/gridder/card.php

So your path looks correct. You could always empty the card.php file and have only die(); into it. Then, you know without a doubt that it loaded or not.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Daniel

RE: A private, password-protected, members-only section (Hopefully Connections-pro)

This can be enabled on the Connections Settings admin page under the General tab. Setting it to require a login will require that the visitor login to the site o view the directory.

• https://connections-pro.com/documentation/settings/#Require_Login

RE: embers have individual access and will be able to maintain their own profile (Hopefully Connections-pro)

This is possible with the Link addon:

• https://connections-pro.com/add-on/link/

Optionally you may want the Form addon:

• https://connections-pro.com/add-on/form/

RE: A member listserv function (This one can use another plugin)

Sorry, not sure what you are asking. Could you give more details?

RE: A web-based form for online application submission and payment (Not a problem for me to set this up)

Connections does not accept payments for listings. I do not plan on adding such features. I recommend you use a membership plugin like Restrict Content Pro to manage membership payments and renewals. This greatly increases your ability to monetize your site where a directory is just one benefit of the user’s membership.

There are other directory plugins which do integrate payments, but then you lock yourself into only being able to monetize your directory making it very difficult to expand member benefits and further increase your opportunity to monetize.

RE: A ‘Find an ND’ option that offers: multiple search options: a) zip code or city name search with distance parameters, such as a drop down with 5mi, 10mi, 15mi, etc

There is a beta addon for Connections which I offer, on request, to those who purchased the Pro Pack.

I freely give it as a free addon in the bundled price. The reason it is not officially part of the bundle is because I still consider it a beta product. With the release of WP5, my goal for this year is to build it as a block which can be used and configured in the new editor.

You can see it in action on this third part site:

https://sscit.org/directory/

I consider this beta software, though safe to run on live sites. It can be difficult to configure due to the complicate shortcode structure to configure the multiple category setup. If you are familiar with shortcodes it should not be too difficult. They styling is as is, though I can give you CSS to apply you own color (instead of blue).

RE: map search function that shows the clinics as little leafs on the map, like a realtor website.

Sorry but Connections at this time does not have a cluster map feature. All the premium templates do include map support, but, those pas are entry specific and show pins only for addresses added to that specific entry.

Hope this answers you question thoroughly!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Thomas

RE: How to override gridder files in child theme?

Here’s the link to the dev doc for template override files.

• https://connections-pro.com/quicktip-custom-template-override-files/

RE: I was able to do this fine with the default template, but gridder seems a little different?

It does work the same, but since Gridder is more complex due to layout and styling, you might also have to edit the corresponding CSS file. When items within the grid, the default font-size is 0 so white spaces that is auto applied in browsers do not break the layout, so, if you added something which is not account for in the default CSS the first thing to check is if the font-size and/or line-height are 0 and if they are, set them to the desired values, for that item only.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Maureene

I recommend the Enhanced Categories addon with one of the premium templates:

• https://connections-pro.com/templates/
• https://connections-pro.com/add-on/enhanced-categories/

When setting up the template, you would disable the category filter in the template since you’ll be using the Enhanced Categories addon instead.

Hope this helps! Let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rudy

RE: I want to have a page “Find a Dojo” with categories for each Canadian province and subcategories within each province for major cities. I then want to make dojos in each city findable by clicking on the category and sub-category. Now, I’m not a word press guy and so far have not figured out how to get that to work.

For the category filter you will need one of the premium templates:

• https://connections-pro.com/templates/

RE: when I add an images to the first entry in the add entry section the image appears there. When I add it to the second entry, the image in the first entry disappears. The entries show up correctly on the page and look good the first time the page is loaded, but they disappear on re-load.

I do not think this is an issue with Connections… it sounds as if another plugin or theme is interacting with images on the page causing them not to appear.

If you can share a link to the page with the issue and confirm which entries do have an image, I can take a look.

[Steven Zahm]

Add page_limit=20 to the shortcode, tweak the number as desired. I do not recommend more than 50 otherwise page loading may become too slow. Depends on the web host. You might be able to more or even a lot more.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Roland

Small bug in the importing section of your custom fields code snippet. Corrected version attached.

Hope this helps!

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