[Steven Zahm]

@ plzit

Open this file:

../wp-content/plugins/connections-widgets/includes/class.widget-upcoming-anniversaries.php

Scroll to line 572 which should be this:

'today' => FALSE,

Change it to this:

'today' => TRUE,

Do the same for the class.widget-upcoming-birthdays.php file, same line 572.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jolie

Those instructions are correct, you will not lose data by updating the template. If you activate your support license key on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Licenses tab, you should be able to update by clicking the “Update Now” link in the upgrade available notice that WP displays on the PLugins admin page. That way is the preferred method.

Hope this helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Bob

Great to hear!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Anita

Great to hear!

[Steven Zahm]

@ plzit

re: Yes, it shows up on the admin dashboard under “today’s birthdays”. It also shows up under the “today’s birthdays” widget, but not the “upcoming birthdays” widget.

Ahhh, yes, sorry, I forgot… that is how it is supposed to work. The only way to make this change would be to edit the PHP of the widget. Are you up to that?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Bob

Navigate to the Connections : Templates admin page, click the Customizer button for the Default Entry template.

The page will reload with the Customizer on the left and a preview on the right.

In the Customizer uncheck the option to display the category.

In the preview click an entry name. The preview will refresh displaying the single entry profile detail page.

Uncheck the display categories option again. This needs to done twice because both views can be configured separately to provide you flexibility of what you want to display.

Click the Save and Publish button at the top of the Customizer.

Exit the Customizer.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Andrea

re: 1st time it failed the error was that the folder already existed.

That is a core WP error message saying the folder in which it is trying to install the Connections into already exists. You have to manually delete the folder by logging into your site with FTP and delete this folder:

../wp-content/plugins/connections/

re: I then downloaded a new copy of the file from your website and I just get the error that the install failed.

The plugin file downloaded from my site is the exact same one which WP will install as the link and the WP install link to the exact same file. I suspect since the folder already existed that the error was the same.

You can not install a plugin into an existing folder. This is a WP safety mechanism which is meant to prevent two plugins being installed into the same folder if they both happen to share the same folder name.

Seems someone accidently deleted the Connections plugin files and not its folder. As I mentioned it is not possible for Connections to self delete. OR…

Another possibility is that when WP was performing an update, the update failed part way thru. Part of core WP plugin update process is to delete the existing version. That is uncommon but does happen. This type of failure can happen to any plugin during an upgrade … OR … even an installation.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ plzit

On the Connections :: Dashboard admin page, does the entry show up in either the upcoming or today’s anniversaries/birthdays widgets?

Also, make sure the entry is public as well as the anniversary/birthday is set to public. When you make a change or update an entry it can take a hour or two for the cached results to expire and be refreshed. For performance reasons, the list is not updated “live” results are cached for a period of time.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kenneth

No problem, that filter has tripped up lots of people.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Meghan

I see you have Gridder… enable category search and add enable_category_multi_select=true to the existing [connections] shortcode. It will not be checkboxes, but it will allow your users to choose more than one category to filter the results by.

Hope this helps, let me know.

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