[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

re: search

I’ve tried many searches and it seems to work fine. Can you give an example of a search which does not work?

re: Not sure what you mean by this? Just make sure to disable the category select drop down on cMap.

You ask if there was an option to show a list (index) of categories. Use the Enhanced Categories extension (included in the Pro Pack). Here is the link to the docs for it.

You should disable the category select drop down feature of cMap. This can be done with the Template Customizer feature of cMap.

re: hope you can resolve the others for me.

What other issues? There’s the search issue … but I need examples of searches not working. My tests on your site seem to be fine.

[Steven Zahm]

@ sarah1202

Without access to the page, it’s really hard to say. There was a width shortcode option used to set the card width in those old versions. Did you set that? If you did, remove the width option from the shortcode. This specific option for cMap was deprecated long ago but it will still honor it for backwards compatibility.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jared

The shortcode is not correct. Using only the id shortcode option only limits the display to the selected IDs. It still defaults to the alpha sorting.

You need to set the order_by shortcode option. See example 2.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

First, maybe it is the theme or perhaps a plugin. But work ever is doing that custom styled page scroll slider, that seems to break the mouse scroll wheel. Meaning, the mouse scroll wheel no longers scrolls the page. Your users might find that frustrating.

re: search

Seems to work fine. Can you give specific examples of what is working and what is not???

re: categories

Use the Enhanced Categories extension (included in the Pro Pack). Just make sure to disable the category select drop down on cMap.

re: color background

No, but, I see you have a “featured” category. Add the following to the theme’s custom CSS area:

#cn-cmap div.featured div.cn-entry {
    background-color: gold !important;
}

Now, any entries assigned to the “featured” category will have a gold color. Tweak as desired.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ sarah1202

Please try activating the Default template. A “Delete” button should now show up for the old cMap template. If it does, click it. If the button does not show, it is likely that Connections is not able to delete the template automatically. In that case, log into your site with FTP and navigate to the ../wp-content/connections_templates/ folder and delete the cmap folder.

Now activate cMap on the Templates admin page.

Hope this helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Stephanie

Yes that would be a good workaround using the Default template. Another option would be the cMap template. A more complex solution would be a custom coded template designed to exact needs. I do offer this customization as a service. If your are interested, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Shawn

The screenshot looks like is of the Default Entry Card template. If that is correct, here’s how to remove those.

Navigate to the Connections : Templates admin page.
Click the Customize button for the Default template.
The page will reload with the Template Customizer of the left and a preview on the right.
Use the checkboxes to disable the display of those items in the Customizer.
Now click an entry name, any name. The preview will refresh showing just that entry that was clicked.
Disabled the display of those two items again.
Click the Save and Publish button and exit the Customizer.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ kumarasamy

The only time when I’ve seen this error come up it is when the WordPress constants for WP_CONTENT_DIR was being set manually in the wp-config.php file with it set incorrectly. If you set it, make sure to use the full absolute path without a trailing slash per the WordPress docs

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Maurice

What you want to do is possible, but is definitely more complex.

To answer your question, yes, you can make the directory home page private.

On your individual pages, make sure to use the home_id shortcode option. Set it to the current page id of the page that you are using the [connections] shortcode on. It should default to the current page, but this should help ensure that. Hope that makes sense.

Now, the directory home page, you could make that private to only you or one of your groups, which ever makes sense to you. With this type of setup, the “View” links on the Connections : Manage admin page will always resolve to your directory home page. The same for the widgets in the Widget Pack. Important to know since you are segregating the directory. Off the top of my head, they is the only limitation that I can think of. Everything else should “just work”.

You can try this out with no purchases using the included templates to make sure this will meet your needs. Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Thomas

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