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02/13/2019 at 8:33 am in reply to: How to allow User to enter multiple categories on their directory entry #484531
Steven Zahm
Keymaster@ twtts
RE: I’m trying to work out how to allow selection of more than on category on the form, it should be obvious but I’m stuck ;)
Click in the space after the category you had already selected to choose another or start typing to filter the choices to choose from. See the demo.
RE: I’m also wondering if using an import CSV later do I create a separate column for each category?
No, all categories go in the same column. Here’s the related FAQ.
Hope this helps!
Keymaster@ Maya
Ahhh… yes, a draft would cause that behavior because WP can not find the post to show the results since it is not published. Glad that was easily resolved!
KeymasterRE: Joel
What is the exact shortcode you are using on the members page? I ask because on that page there are no category selection available which is why it does not drop down. I suspect they all may be excluded somehow.
Keymaster@ Maya
I took a look but I am sorry as I do not seem to understand the issue you are experiencing. I can search and filter by category and I do get the expected results. Could you provide some specific examples so I can mimic your results?
Keymaster@ Jaewon Kim
Did you deactivate the Contact plugin on the WordPress Plugins admin page?
If you did, can you also try deactivating the ROT13 Email Encryption plugin. I’d like to eliminate that as a possible cause.
Can you you also share a screenshot of the email address of an entry in the admin which should be displayed?
02/12/2019 at 10:14 am in reply to: As a link owner, I never get the email from the Contact Form #484439Keymaster@ Carlos
RE: I just received two emails, but I had sent like a total of 10 messages in the last few hours.
So, it sounds like the emails are being sent. You can always review the logs found on the Connections : Tools admin page under the Logs tab. Or use a third party email log plugin such as:
Also, if your web host provides access to email log that the server sends, you could also review those logs as they would be more definitive when compared to any logs that can be captured at the WordPress level. Because WordPress could record a success but the web host not actually send it.
When testing, if you are using the same email address for send and receive, those will generally get blocked as spam or blocked all together by the popular online email service providers.
The best way to test is to make sure the entry email address is one email address under your control and when you fill out the contact form use a separate different email address under your control. This will help prevent triggering the service provider spam filters.
RE: I’d personally rather use the Captcha approach, but I don’t think there is support for it, from what read.
The purpose of captcha is to prevent email from being sent (in this context) and has nothing to do with the act of sending an email. Contact has built in methods to prevent spamming as captcha has been proven to drastically reduce user engagement. Unless you get an error message after clicking send, the email was passed off successfully to WordPress to complete the sending of the email. This still requires the web host to successfully send the email and the email service provider to successfully receive it.
RE: This is dangerous because a prospective client can send an email, and the attorney will never get it.
If these transactional email are of great importance then you should really use a dedicated email service provider like SendGrid with their plugin and setup SPF/DKIM. These further help prevent email providers from filtering your transactional email as spam. I personally use SendGrid for this site to ensure same confirmation and other transactional email are sent and received. It is far, far better than relying on the web host which is basically a cross your fingers level of service.
Hope this helps!
Keymaster@ James
Ok, the WP screenshot service does not seem to like that site. Accessing it directly returns a 404 error, as seen here:
Here’s a working site:
My best guess is that it is the YouTube videos that the WP.com screenshot service does not like.
What I do, and suggest to you is set SiteShot as the fallback image, but upload no images. The template will use the screenshot as normal. But for difficult sites, you can manually upload a screenshot that you take from your computer.
The shortcode would be like this:
[connections image='photo' image_fallback='siteshot' image_single='photo' image_single_fallback='siteshot']I will have to push out a small update for Gridder so you can use the
image_fallbackoption. I’ll get to it this week asap.Hope this helps!
Keymaster@ Maya
Can you share a link to your directory so I can take a look?
KeymasterRE: It doesn’t look like the individual artist directory pages are discoverable in a Google search.
Looks like Google has indexed many pages on your site:
- https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https://oaae.net/artist-category-dance-movement/
- https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https://oaae.net/artist-category-literary-arts/
- https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https://oaae.net/artist-category-music/
- https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https://oaae.net/artist-category-storytelling/
- https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https://oaae.net/artist-category-theater/
- https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https://oaae.net/artist-category-visual-arts/
RE: Googling “Eric Marlow Artists in Schools” brings up our old website directory, but not the new one. Same goes for “Eric Marlow Ohio Alliance for Arts Education.”
Google is still ranking your old site higher than the old site. This is not something Connections can control.
When I limit the search results for your site and search for “Eric Marlow” which returns as the first result:
RE: What are your thoughts on this?
It appears Google is crawling and indexing the site. It is up to their algorithms to surface the content. Check your Google Webmaster Console. You can request to remove old links and to submit pages to be indexed. Not sure how that later would help at all since the pages are indexed. Its really up to Google to surface those in search results.
Hope this helps!
Keymaster@ Craig
fyi, If you wish to share your mapping integration, I would post it up freely on this site in the dev docs.
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