[Steven Zahm]

@ Melissa

re: Is there a way to hide ‘Category’ under the listings of the individuals?

I’m assuming you are using the Default Card template, correct? Here’s how:

• Navigate to the Connections : Templates admin page and click the Customizer button for the Default 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 categories.
• In the preview, click any entry name. The preview will refresh to display the profile detail view of the entry.
• Ensure the option to display categories is unchecked. The reason you must do this twice is because both the list view and the single entry detail view can be configured separately.
• Click the Save and Publish button in the Customizer.
• Exit the Customizer.

re: Is it possible to add more than one email address under the same heading?

Sorry, not sure what you are asking? Are you asking if you can add another email address type in addition to home and work?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Melissa

You can use the Say What? plugin to customize the labels and other text in Connections or any other plugin which is translation ready.

To change Home Phone to Cottage Phone you would add a new text change with the following settings:

Original string: Home Phone
Text domain: connections
Text context:
Replacement string: Cottage Phone

What spelling and capitalization… it matters, and, if not correct, the replacement will not work.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Melissa

re: How do I customize the mapping headings so they will be written as above?
Can I just have the CSV in excel to be setup like this instead of having the big long sample excel file?

Sure, your CSV file can have just those fields. Actually the fewer fields the better because there is less data to parse.

In the mapping step you CSV file will only display those column headers… you would then map them to the correct fields in Connections as you normally would. Same process, just fewer to do since your CSV file would only contain a few columns.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

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@ georges

Sorry, but there is no feature like this currently available for Connections

[Steven Zahm]

@ Karl

Can you please share a link to the directory page with the trouble?

What changes have you made to your site on or prior to the 28th, such as plugin installations/updates?

[Steven Zahm]

@ John

re: I have noticed that there are frequently posted conflicts with access manager plugins.

Most of which are old. I can not recall anything recently. The only time there’s a real conflict is when such a plugin hijacks the core WP login process without implementing the required core actions and filters with the correct params being passed to them. This really only affect the Link extension. The s2member issue is a completely different issue.

re: User Access Manager?

I am not currently aware of any conflict with User Access Manager.

As far as I know, the s2member issue is present and is not something I can resolve. That plugin resets all custom roles and capabilities when it updates (at one time). This will break any and every plugin which relies on them, which there are many. For example, small plugins like Easy Digital Downloads, bbPress, BuddyPress and WooCommerce.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Bob

re: P3 plugin profiler or Query monitor, we consistently see the Connections plugin using the most resources- around 20% of the load.

P3, you can really take the results of that as only as a very rough indicator. Connections is not causing 20% load. The only page that will have a “hit” would be the directory page where the directory is being displayed and of course its admin pages.

A far much better tool to use is this:

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/cmbonline.org/c9sZe0Xp

I took a real quick look at just your home page. It is 8MB downloaded. Right there, that is one big reason for a slow load time. There is one image all by itself is greater than 1MB.

There is also, a lot, as in almost a couple hundred (rough estimate), of CSS and JS files being downloaded with a large chunk of them coming from Facebook, I suspect that little widget in the right corner of the footer.

Take a look at the Waterfall tab in GTmetrix, that whole last ~20% seems to be just Facebook content. One has to be careful with adding social media stuff to a site as that can add up and really slow down a site.

I highly suggest using WP Rocket (not affiliated with in any way) as they site optimization seems to just work with little setup. You still need to optimize those images. I believe the is a plugin called WP Smush that can help with that.

I hope this helps get you on the right track to better your site load time.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dee

RE: I’ve added a custom field to the registration form and can see it if I go to the form from the WP dashboard and manually input a directory member’s details. However, if the members follow the ‘add my directory listing’ link the form they are presented with does not include the custom fields. I have checked the tick boxes on the settings pages to display custom fields but that hasn’t helped with regard the entry form.

Sorry, but the “Custom Fields” metabox is available only to admins to add/edit data. This is pretty much the same as the “Custom Fields” metabox which is available in the core WordPress when adding/editing pages/posts.

User editable “custom fields” are possible to add, but a bit technical todo. Here’s a tutorial which provides instructions on how to add custom text fields.

RE: I’ve check the box to display custom fields on the directory front end and need to know how to change the label please? Having a large, colourful ‘custom fields’ header makes no sense to searchers. Can you point me in the direction of where to edit this please?

When you add you own custom text field, it’ll have its own header which you define.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ christian

Add the following CSS to the theme’s custom CSS area:

#cn-market #cn-cat-select ul > li:first-of-type {
    display: none !important;
}

This will hide the display of that list item. Just keep in mind that without this option, the user will not be able to view all again until they navigate back to the directory page.

You could add this Market shortcode option str_select='Show All Categories' to the shortcode to make the text more relevant.

Hope that helps!

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