[Steven Zahm]

@ Yehoshua

The link that you shared is to my previous reply. Can you please share a link to your directory page?

There will be no edit link. If you what those who submit entries to be able to edit their submissions then you also need the Link extension. The Form extension on its own only allows anonymous submissions and provide frontend editing support for the site admin. So when you are logged in, you should see an edit link. Your site visitors will not.

If I misunderstand the issue you are having, I apologize!

[Steven Zahm]

@ pam

Can you give me an admin login so I can take a closer look? You can post the details here as a private reply.

[Steven Zahm]

Use this CSS instead:

#cn-form span#cn-name-prefix,
#cn-form span#cn-name-middle,
#cn-form span#cn-name-suffix,
#cn-form div#cn-metabox-section-department {
    display: none !important;
}

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Seth

You could use a registration plugin (many freely available) rather than the core WP registration feature. Many of those plugins will auto login the user and then offer you an option to redirect the user to a specific page. You could setup it up top redirect to the where the user can add their entry.

You could also add the instructions to the welcome email the user receives after registering. Here’s one such plugin to all you to do this. There are others, this is just the first in the Google search results.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ sojan

The list_type shortcode option only supports anniversary and birthday as options. Sorry, but there is no deceased option which is why you are seeing the error you are receiving.

You can probably use the order_by shortcode option with the [connections] shortcode. I think this might work [connections order_by="deceased"]

I hope this helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Yehoshua

Can you please share a link to your directory page on your site? Thanks.

Here’s the link to the documentation on how to turn of the submit entry Form action link. This is all you need to do in order to have the link show up. After you enable the link, it will display above your directory. When clicked, it’ll take the user to the form where they submit an entry to the directory.

Hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Meghan

Oh, fyi, the code you added could be working just fine. You may have to add some custom CSS to make the list display. Any new text not part of the original Gridder display will likely not show because the default font size and line height is set to 0. This default setting is required in order to have Gridder display as a grid without having a “stair step” show between the entries.

YOu can see if the list is being output by looking at the page source (CTRL+U).

[Steven Zahm]

@ Meghan

I’d need to see the code you used to add the custom field as well as the code you added to the card.php file. I did review the code you posted, but I need to see just the code you added.

If you want, I do provide custom development services. So I could do this for you. If you are interested, use the contact link at the very bottom of the page and I give you quote.

As for the Widget Pack. You can follow the general instructions for installing an extension.

Configuration. Navigate to the WordPress Widgets admin page under the Appearance admin menu. Now, just like any other widget, you can any of the Connections Widgets to the theme’s sidebar. All the options for the Connections Category widget are fairly self explanatory but if you have any specific questions regarding it, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Laura

The easiest way to add Form is by adding its action link above the directory. Here’s the link to the documentation on how to enable the Form submit action link.

Now, since you are using Link, I am going to assume you actually only wish to allow your registered users to add and maintain their entry. If that is the case, then the instructions you should follow are those for configuring Link as recommended in the link I gave for adding the Form submit action link.

As far as editing fields, there is no way to edit fields as Form is to be more or less plug and play. You can turn off and arrange fieldsets on the Form settings admin page.

Most of the time when someone says they want to edit a field, they generally are asking how they can change the label of the field. If that is what you are asking, here’s the link that explains how to change text within Connections.

There is a shortcode for Form that you can use to display Form on any page. It is [connections_form]. However it is not recommended to use it because all the internal links that are created automatically/internally by Connections will be to it’s page and not the one you you add the shortcode on. This includes Link.

Hope I have answered your question thoroughly.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Erik

Since you are moderating registrations, I think this becomes somewhat easy. The user will have to register with an email address. Right after you approve their user registration, copy the email address the used to register. Next locate their entry in the Connections directory (search by name) and edit their entry to include the email address the user registered with. The next time the user is on the site, their user account will be linked to their directory entry.

Hope that helps!

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