[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

If you are using Form and Lnmk to allow users to maintain their own entry, the users must use the directory home page / submit link.

If you do not want to display the “Add a New Entry” link you can use the shortcodes for Link to dispay the links on any page you wish. You can also use the free Login extension which has options to display the links in the widget.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ bobbyau

Hmmm… I logged in and added a new entry with an image with no errors. I left it as an unlisted entry at the top of the list. It seems to work fine or did I misunderstand the issue?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Lisa

To do this, do not yet activate Connections or it’s addons on the destination site. First, navigate to the ../wp-content/uploads/ folder on the source site and download the connections-images folder. Upload this folder to the same location on the destination site.

Here’s where is a gets a little harder…

Login to the source’s site phpMyAdmin tool and navigate to the database being used for the source site. Export all the tables that begin with {wpdb-prefix}_connections where {wpdb-prefix} is the database prefix for your WordPress installation. If you are unfamiliar with exporting tables from phpMyAdmin, there are many, many great tutorials on the net which cover tat topic in great depth. It really is not hard, just select the tale, choose Export with the selected tables and choose the default options.

Now, with the tables exported you need to import them on the destination site. Login to the destination site’s phpMyAdmin tool, click import. YOu should be able to use the default options when importing if you used the default options when exporting.

NOTE: If you had already installed Connections on the destination site, you first need to select the existing connections tables and drop (delete) them before you can import.

After you have imported the tables, you now need to rename each table so the wpdb_prefix matches the destination site’s wpdb_prefx.

Now, you can install and activate Connections on the destination site and your data and images will be used.

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brad

re: do i need to upload the categories first before doing a full import of all entries or does your code detect the missing categories and create automatically?

No, you do not need to import categories separately as they will be created automatically.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Karsten

Can you please share a link to your directory page so I can take a look to see what is not working exactly.

One common issue is that permalinks are set up with index.php. If you see this in your web address bar of the browser, navigate to the WordPress Permalinks settings admin page and remove index.php from the permalink structure.

Hope this helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Anita

re: Also, this is for a friend who’s website I am building so is there a better more cost effective way to build it up than how i did it?

If all you are looking for is for the WP users to be able to add and maintain their own own with moderation. Your purchases are the most cost effective. If you want additional features of other extensions the the most cost effective would be to purchase the Extension Pro pack since it include all the premium extensions.

re: I found that they could access some of the dashboard that I didn’t want them too. Do I have to set the status or issue them with the admin login?

The amount of access a WP user has depends on the role assigned to a person when they are added. That roles has certain privileges called capabilities. For example, the Subscriber role, the Role I recommend using for users of the directory, the only capability they have by default is to edit the user password and profile. This is core WP feature not in any way related to Connections, but is utilized by Connections.

When Link is installed and activate, a WP user will have access not only to their admin profile page (core WP) they will also have access to their admin add/edit directory entry page. Nothing else, unless, you assign the Subscriber role additional capabilities (which is not recommended whether using Connections or not).

There are plugin available which block all access to the WP admin. If you do not what users to have access to the admin profile page you should install a one of these plugins. If you do this, you should provide your logged in users a way to change their password on the site’s frontend otherwise they will have no way of doing this.

If you do block the admin, that is where the Form extension is require (which you have already purchased). To allow your logged in users to use Form, following the setup docs. It basically will add a link on the directory page where they will be able to add/edit their entry on the site frontend.

Hope I have addressed your questions thoroughly!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brad

re: to clarify, I need to purchase the Import extension in order to import the directory items exported from my old site?

That is correct. The import tool you were trying to use only supports importing categories. One thing to note, images (photo or logo) will not be transferred.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Anita

Looking at your existing purchases you have everything you need (Form and Link) to allow your users to submit and maintain their entries with moderation.

Have you set up those extensions?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mike

Oh, ok, this is already supported, except for the link target.

To add additional link types requires to be added by code. It is fairly simple. Here are instructions on how to add custom links that I gave to another user.

After you add your custom link types, you can import and export to them. Make sure you have the latest version of the CSV Import installed. You have the option to make a CSV field for a link title field. If you are importing modified CSV files from the built in CSV export these fields will automatically be mapped for you.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Michelle

What is the exact path you put your override file in? The path you gave does not seem to be correct. So, I’d double check the file path against the paths outlined in the docs for an override file.

Base on what your said, Connections would expect to find your override files here:

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

Hope that helps!

ps. If you are using page caching, make sure to flush it otherwise you will likely just see the old cached version of the page.

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