[Steven Zahm]

@ Eugene

Sorry, no, but what you can do is use use a gallery shortcode in the bio and notes fields to embed a gallery in those fields.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Eugene

re: Sort by Category and Last_name, produce a listing with ALL categories, but have each category start as a header for its section of names.

Sorry, no grouping by category is not possible. With simple directories, it might would be doable but it would cause all sorts of issues for pagination and category filtering. The it really gets complicated with multiple level category hierarchies and entries assigned to more than one category.

re: I don’t think it would support Category selection.

Sorry, no, not really. You current setup I would actually recommend an even more complicated setup using two pages. I suggestion adding a new page named “Practitioner”. Do not add this page to your menus. On this page, add only the [connections] shortcode with no options. Set the page as the directory home page. On your existing page add force_home="true" to all the existing shortcodes. When the page is saved, all the “View Profile” links will not resolve to the new “Practitioner” page. You do this so the page intro and all the category headers will not be shown on the profile page.

Now, if you would like a makeshift category selection with your setup, you could add in page links. Give each of your headers an unique id. Then at the top of your page add links to each of those ids.

Sorry I do not have better answers for you, but I hope this helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Barbara

What is the exact shortcode you are using on the page?

Can you share a link to the page with the issue?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Barbara

re: I have more than one entry in a category and Connections seems to know this because it displays “name of category (2)”

I assuming you are seeing this on the Categories admin page? Correct? If not, where?

re: when the category is clicked it only displays one entry.

What exactly are you clicking and where? Please provide more details.

One thing to check… ensure all the entries are all set to public or they will not be displayed.

[Steven Zahm]

@ ssnoomann

re: When I roll over this link, it shows this:

There will not be any rollover, popup, lightbox or anything. It is simply a link to the entry’s details page to the contact form.

The difference is it will autoscroll to the “Email Entry” form that is displayed on the entry’s detail page.

So, the link you are seeing is exactly correct.

Looking at your site, screenshot attached, the contact form is where it should be.

re: I have attached a screenshot of the actual listing showing the Contact Us button that appears when I activate the snippet. Yes, I have modified the style a bit but don’t see anything in my modifications that would affect that.

I’m guessing then that the code in this reply is not that code you are actually using because it would not result inn a link.

Anyway, it does sound like what you are using is working.

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[Steven Zahm]

@ ssnoomann

re: Thanks. I had seen that list of shortcodes but in various forum posts I have seen other ones

Most are template specific shortcodes which share a lot of overlap. The pages I gave you the link sto are valid for the core plugin and cMap.

There is no shortcode option named show_category_in. There is category_in and enable_category_select, show_empty_categories and show_category_count for cMap

So it seems you might be combing a couple???

re: [connections show_category_in="restaurants" list_type="organization"]

This would be correct for your useage:

[connections category="x" list_type="organization"]

Where x would be the category ID number for your Restaurant category.

You could use:

[connections category_in="x" list_type="organization"]

but, that is a more “expensive” query when compared to querying by a single category which is what your are looking to do.

You should only use it when you only want to display entries that are assigned to all (operational AND) the defined category ID/s.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Greg

Apologies! I somehow did miss this.

I’ve read the thread over in the WPML support forum…

I guess the first thing that needs to be clarified is that Connections is not a custom post type (CPT). Connections uses custom database tables instead for a couple reasons. One, Connections is older than the WP CPT feature. Two, and more importantly, the db schema of the custom tables are more optimized for directories whereas CPT’s are optimized for post content. This allows me to do things which are difficult is not possible if I were to use a CPT. This is very likely you are not seeing what you need to see in WPML.

Looking at the WPML developer docs, it seems, I think I would have to add specific support in the code for WPML support for user input as outline in their docs.

I could not find anything in their dev docs specifically outlining the procedure to add WPML support to plugins which use custom tables and with user input. I’m not able to ask questions in their support forum since I’m not a customer. If you could relay this question to them asking them to point me to the relevant docs. I can at least add initial support for the job title field.

If this will help them, the code to get and set the job title can be found in these two links:

• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/8.5.22/includes/entry/class.entry-data.php#L327
• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/8.5.22/includes/entry/class.entry-data.php#L1009
• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/8.5.22/includes/entry/class.entry-data.php#L1025

The actual data is retrieved and saved from the db using the WordPress wpdb API.

I hope this helps move this issue forward to resolution. Let me know what you find out.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brielle

Not sure I understood the issue, but glad to hear the crisis has been averted :)

[Steven Zahm]

@ Carolin

Ok, let’s move the conversation over to the email thread.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marna

The support license key which enables support and in admin updates is limited to a single site. If you wish to have support for multiple sites you should purchase support license for each site you wish to have this enabled. Your alternative is to manually update the additional sites.

Hope this answers your question thoroughly!

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