[Steven Zahm]

@ Robin

re: I also had someone submit about a half hour prior and it worked too.

Good to hear!

re: I did deactivate and activate it so maybe that fixed it.

That would have no effect on the submission routing.

re: It must have been a fluke.

Where the other submissions from registered users on your site? If they were registered users and they were logged in and the role capabilities allow them to submit without moderation was setup, them it is possible to have some submission not route to the mod queue.

re: However, I am not receiving an email that a new submission was received

Connections simply uses WordPress to send email, so, if you are not receiving email then the chances are WordPress is not able to send email.

To see the Connections email logs navigate to the Connections : Tools admin page under the Logs tab.

If you see the logs say the email has failed, then there is a server config issue.

If it says success, then as far as WordPress is concerned it is sent. Many things can cause the email not to be sent or received starting from an incorrectly configured to server to the email simply ending up in your spam/junk folder.

One way to quick test to see if WordPress can send email is to navigate to the Connections Tools admin page and click the System Info and send yourself an email. After you do, check the email logs to see if it failed or not. If it is successful but you do not receive it then the source of the issue is very likely not Connections.

If you find that WordPress report success but you do not receive them, I suggest using the Postman plugin. Install, but do not configure it. On the settings page you can send yourself a test email, do a connectivity test and view your email log (email sent after activating Postman). If you find that you do not receive the Postman text email, you will very likely need to set up Postman to send email via SMTP.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Robin

I just submitted an entry and it does appear to have landed in the mod queue as it should. Can you please confirm? So far, seems to be work fine.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Edward

Such a search could be added. See this site as an example, the “Find A Therapist” section:

https://sscit.org/

This does include a city search field but is not shown on the example site. If you are interested in this solution, please contact me using the Contact link at the very bottom of the page.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Bob

re: Is it possible to easily monetize different premium items in the listings? Is there a store function?

Sorry, no, there is no “store” function. Generally, I recommend using a membership plugin such as Restrict Content Pro to see memberships to your site. One the user has a membership you can give them access to add their own directory entry. This type of setup gives you more flexibility at monetizing the site rather than limit it to just a directory entry.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Matthew

Technically, something like this would be possible. It would require a custom template as there is nothing “out of box” currently available for this type of use. The biggest issue is see is the all on one page aspect. Depending on how many total entries you are displayed org + their contacts could cause page loading issues. This is not really a Connections issue, anything that needs a lot of db access would cause the same issues. So, for something smallish, no problem.

If you are interested is having a custom template developed, please contact me using the Contact link at the very bottom of the page so we can discuss the finer details and provide you with a quote.

Hope that answers your question thoroughly!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sami

Try adding the following CSS to the theme’s custom CSS area:

#cn-cmap {
    max-width: 600px;
}

That should limit the full width of the cMap template to 600px. Tweak as desired.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Chris

You need to add this code to the card.php file found in this folder:
../wp-content/plugins/connections-excerpt-plus/

$entry->vcard();

If you alter the template, then I highly suggest reading the tutorial on how to use custom template override files to make your change update safe.

Hope that helps! Let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ David

Yes, it was just your user accounts Connections user meta that was corrupt. My temp account worked just fine, no errors. I was able to verify it was your account by using the User Switching plugin (installed and then deleted).

I edited Connections with the updated file to make the checks more robust against corruptions and that seems to have done the trick. You account can not properly add/edit entries without errors.

This change is already in the next update for Connections so you will be able to update safely.

Apologies for the trouble!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Harold

re: Thanks Steven. Looks good.

Thanks! I’m going to add a few options yet so this is a bit more configurable today and then release this as 2.0. When released you will be able to safely update to it.

re: one issue is there is floating image

Ahhh, yes, I see. Connections has a pretty smart post excerpt function as it allows some HTML and, in most cases, not truncate the post text mid sentence like the theme’s post excerpt in its latest post sections. Not a knocking on the theme at all. This is the way the core WordPress excerpt works. The one in Connections is somewhat better, imho.

Anyway, it allowed images, which is not really desirable for excerpts, so I removed that ability and now the floating image is gone :)

[Steven Zahm]

@ Carolin

Thanks for letting me know! Seems like Yoast SEO broke the way they saved redirects. It no longer saves exactly what I want, rather it tries to correct what it thinks are errors (best guess).

I was redirecting /documentation/ to /documentation/contents/ just fine before I changed a permalink to a new FAQ and Yoast SEO auto added a redirect changing all the existing one in the process.

Anyways, thanks again!

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