[Steven Zahm]

@ Matt

re: Could we achieve this with your directory?

Sure. I would recommend setting up the blogs as an “Organization” entry type and use the Name field for the blog name. You could then use the Links fieldset to add a website and a blog link. And finally use the bio field for the description.

re: We would like to display the blogs in a nice way, possibly showing the RSS feed underneith.

This is possible but would have to be custom coded as they is nothing that exists “out of box” to enable such a feature.

re: Which addons would you recommend?

This depends… are you managing the directory or expecting your users to? If you are doing the maintaining, then you need nothing. If you users are, then at the very least you will need the Link extension. If you want to enable frontend editing, then you’ll need the Form extension but that is optional.

Since it a a blog directory, the SiteShot extension might be a good addition.

re: Which template would you recommend?

Well, probably the cMap template.

Hope that answers your questions thoroughly!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rolf

re: Is it possible withe the Say what plugin

Yes, it is.

re: which text domain should I Use in this case?

You should use connections. The exact original string you need to use is:

The results are being filtered by the character: %s

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ William

Ok, I see, like I said Form does not support editing the family entry type. So, the bug is the edit link shows for it when it should not. I’ve just fixed the bug so the edit link will not show. The fix will be in the next update release which will probably be Friday.

[Steven Zahm]

@ William

re: Why is the Family option not on the cn-entry-type div in the SUBMIT form.
Also does not show up when edit the record?

Form does not support the creating of families. Families can only be created in the admin by admins. This is done for security and privacy. If it were available, anyone could add any other in the directory as a family member.

re: Also why are the NAME fields not showing up when editing the entry for family?

Do you mean the first/last name fields? If so, this is because a family does not have a first or last name, it has a family name.

re: They do when creating a new record, but not on the edit.

Only when the entry type is set as an individual, when you switch the entry type to a family, the first/last name fields are not available.

Hope that answers your questions thoroughly!

http://connections-pro.com/faqs/how-to-create-a-family/

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mark

re: My only concern here is that WP itself has not been updated

Valid concern. Connections requires WP 4.2. So updating Connections without first updating WP would be bad because Connections uses functions in WP 4.2 that did not exist in WP 3.5.

You should not update Connections until WP is brought up to date. iF you are not permitted to bring WP up to date, you should leave Connections on the version that is presently installed.

Sorry that I have no better answer for you.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mark

re: Can this be done?

Yes, with the plugin active, click the update now link on the plugins admin page. There’s only been minor db schema changes so there should not be an issue with updating.

[Steven Zahm]

@ bebe

oops… Sorry, I left out one instruction. Change 7938 in the code snippet to the page ID, 39.

[Steven Zahm]

@ bebe

Sorry, but there is no way to override it. The extension alters the database query at a low level to enforce the order. The only way I can think of attempting this is to remove the filter which alters the query.

Try this:

Install the Code Snippets plugin.

Add a new snippet with the following code:

add_filter( 'cn_entry_query_clauses', 'cn_remove_custom_entry_order_on_page', 9 );

function cn_remove_custom_entry_order_on_page( $clauses ) {

    if ( 7938 == get_queried_object_id() ) {

        remove_filter( 'cn_entry_query_clauses', array( 'Connections_Custom_Entry_Order', 'queryClauses' ) );
    }

    return $clauses;
}

Save and Activate this snippet, selecting the Only run on site front-end option.

This should do the trick, but keep in mind that this will affect every Connections instance on the same page, ie. widgets.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ William

re: Could you do the same type of thing in an individual record and use a relation of “family”?

Well, yes, that could be done. However, if time is going to be invested in changing this, it should be changed for the better which would be a custom relationship table. This would allow other uses beyond creating families in a way that could actually be queryable from the database.

re: Which module(s) do the updates to the “options” field. Is there a function that unpacks the data stored in that field. I would like to look at the code if that is ok.

The data is a serialized array. (A future changed will make this a JSON encoded array). Here’s a link to an online tool which will unserialize the array.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Bene

Great to hear!

If you have a moment, I would truly appreciate a review as they really do make a difference. Many thanks in advance!

https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/connections

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