[Steven Zahm]

@ Ben

Your data will be retained, nothing lost or need reentered. The reason is you leave Connections installed. The templates and extension are installed and activated like any other WordPress plugin. When they are they added features to the existing Connections plugin.

Hope that answers your question thoroughly!

[Steven Zahm]

Brittany V

Unfortunately there are no hooks you can use to add columns. The code for this page is very old and due for a complete rewrite which would introduce the ability to added columns thru actions. This is on my todo list, but I honestly can not give an eta when the will be done.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

I updated the code a bit to display more low level error messages rather than grouping them all under an “unkown error” message.

You’ll see the actual error is cURL error 28: Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds.

This is a low level error message being reported by WordPress which basically means, “no internet available on the hosting server”. According to the system info allow_url_fopen and cURL are enabled and supported but it still seems something is blocking external connections made by the core WordPress function wp_remote_get().

I am pretty certain at this point that this seems to be a webhost issue. Can you contact the webhost support to see if they are blocking external connections?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

I get an invalid login error when I try to login. Could you please verify the login details?

[Steven Zahm]

@ modus

Ok, I found and fix the bug which was causing the error. I’ll be releasing a bug fix for both the core Connections plugin and the Enhanced Categories extension today. You will be able to safely update as they will contain the fixes applied to your site.
Apologies for the trouble!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Steve

Could I please get a temp admin login so I can look into this deeper? Right now I have no guesses as to why you get this error so I need to see this on your site in order to debug. The login details can be posted here as a private reply. Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ ssnoomann

re: I am hoping you have another undocumented shortcode so that I can hide the Locations category from displaying in that grid view?

Well, no, there is a documented shortcode option :) … it is compatible/works with the exclude_category shortcode option. I do not have this documented on the doc page for the Enhanced Categories extension because I assumed people would expect it to just work with the “core” shortcode options. Would it help if this was mentioned on the doc page as well?

Hope that helps!

ps. I made the edits to the post as requested and made it public.

pss. I’d like to post a backlink to your site on my showcase page when you are finished if that is alright.

[Steven Zahm]

@ modus

If you can give me a temp admin account I can login and track down and fix the issue right away. Please leave the login details as a private reply.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marian

I just compared the counts to the counts shown on the Connections : Categories admin page on your site and they match exactly, which they should, since the same data is used. Or am I missing what you are asking?

[Steven Zahm]

@ ssnoomann

Ok, I’m in. The first thing I did was upload a hotfix version of the Enhanced categories extension. I fixed a critical bug another user was experiencing. My guess it was the same issue you were facing too since the page seems to load fine if I enable the categories to be displayed before the results list. I turned it back off immediately after verifying because that causes it to display everywhere you are displaying the directory which I’m pretty sure you do not want. There is an undocumented shortcode option to enable it per shortcode instance vs. the admin settings option which is global. It is cnec_display_categories="true" and I added to your directory page.

I also disable the category select with the enable_category_select='FALSE' option because there can be some issues when using both the drop down and the category image grid/list together.

It all seems good. If you agree, then you can delete the account.

I read thru your long post above a few times, I think there is only one other question left outstanding… how to change the label text for the notes and bio. The best/easiest way to do this is thru the Template Customizer for cMap. To do this navigate to the Connections : Templates admin page and click the Customize button for cMap. After the page reloads the Customizer will be on the left with a preview on the right. Click the back arrow in the upper left of the Customizer. Now click the Strings panel. From there you can change the bio and notes header text. Alternative, you can use the method outlined in the docs.

If I missed anything, let me know.

ps. You have one of the more complex setups that I’ve seen in awhile. How do you like the flexibility that Connections has?

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