[Steven Zahm]

@ Jade Le Maitre

The bio excerpt on the main page or on the entry profile detail page?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jade Le Maitre

I took a look at the page. The categories list from the Enhanced Categories extension is designed to output in columns already. I see that it is on your site. The issue is the design is not to spread children categories across columns because the hierarchy is very hard to discern when it is allowed.

That said, I see since you have only two category parents with one containing the majority it does create quite a lopsided display. So, try adding this to the theme’s custom CSS area.

ul.cn-category-list-container li {
    page-break-inside: auto;
    break-inside: initial;
}

This should allow the categories to display in columns regardless of placement in the hierarchy.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Larry

Probably the best place to start is to point you to the configuration docs for both plugins.

• Form
• Link

If you plan only only allowing your registered site users to submit entries to the directory you really only need to following the instructions for Link.

The important bit, there is no shortcode you need to put on a page. You need to enable the add/edit action links on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Display tab in the Result List Action. That’s covered in the Link Config instructions.

If you want to add a link to the form, let’s say on a “member homepage” you can use the two shortcodes for Link. Or, you could use the free Login extension and add it to the theme’s sidebar.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Carlos

The issue you that you have index.php in the WordPress permalink configuration. You should remove this to improve your SEO and let Connections function properly.

You can change this on the WordPress Settings Permalinks admin page by removing index.php from the permalink structure.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Axel

The only way to change this would be customize the javascript for the template. The easiest would be to turn the links in a toggle so one closes when the other is clicked.

Another possibility is to switch the order in which the panels open. This could be done by editing the template’s PHP files. But, you would still have the same problem, just in reverse.

Either way, this would require custom coding the template as there are no options available to change the current behavior.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rajesh

Presently the data is output using the hCard microdata spec which is an SEO compliant marked parsed by all major search engines. Moving to schema.org is a work in progress.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rajesh

re: SEO Friendly url:

The URL is made from the entry name. The endpoints can be configured on the Connections : Settings page under the advanced tab.

re: Title and Metas:

The meta title and page title are set up from the entry name.

re: Sitemap

The only page that needs to be in the sitemap is the base directory page. Google will quite happily index the directory content from there.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ ssnoomann

re: Is this the bug or is there maybe a way to add a snippet to make that change?

Yes, this is a bug. The search should be on the root and not in the category tree. There is no way to fix this with a snippet. I have to fix the logic so the form action attribute is properly set to the page root when in the category tree. This change will require some testing to make sure I do not break the other logic involved. I will not be able to get to this until next week because of the complexity involved.

[Steven Zahm]

@ ssnoomann

The weighting/scoring is applied by the database. In this specific scenario it is at the end because the filter adds its results to the “core” search results. It is not possible to apply a custom order on results in as far as the weighted score from the db is concerned.

Now, that said…

What you could do is alter the snippet I gave and perform a custom query taking the entry ID’s from the $scored array to sort them however you want. So you could order by type and alphabetically within that order. I do not have any custom code laying around like the snippet I gave you to accomplish this, so, it would custom coded.

[Steven Zahm]

@ ssnoomann

• Make sure the snippet is actually activated. There are two buttons, Save and Save and Activate.
• Did you update the category description to include the word yoga?

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