[Steven Zahm]

@ Cole

Good to hear this is sorted.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dan

re: With the proper extensions (FORM, LINK, ???), would a member that is logged in be able to add an entry for a dog “Family Member” and then attach that to their family? (since we don’t want our dogs playing on the internet) or would that require creating a WP profile for the dog?

Sorry, but Form and Link do not support working with families. Right now this is for security reasons because if it were available any user could add any individual as a family member.

re: Can Directory be used to manage access to a set of member only pages of the site that will contain the directory as well as other non-public data? If not, do you have a recommendation for what plug-in works well in concert with Directory?

No, Connections does not manage site content access. You would need a membership plugin like Restrict Content Pro to manage site content access.

re: I have installed the Hobbies plug-in and looking at the code, it appears I could change the heading to “Interests” and change the
list to reflect the items that we record by member.

Sure, with some PHP code you could hook into a filter to add or remove items from the available hobby choices.

re: The first question, is there a way to query the “Hobby/Interest” data that would allow us to get a list of all those that have indicated an “interest” in a specific topic with my ultimate goal of being able to use that list with another plug-in (WP-Admin-Distribution List) to email notices regarding their area of interest.

Yes, it would be able to craft a custom query to get the data. Though, to get at this data efficiently I believe you will need at least MySQL 5.7.8 because that data is JSON encoded in the entry meta table. If MySQL 5.7.8 is not available to you, it is possible to get at this data using regex queries but the they will not be very performant which may not really be an issue for your use case.

re: The second question that I have; if I can use Hobby plug-in to achieve 3.a. above, is there a better way to modify the Hobbies plug-in descriptions?

How do you mean?

re: And, as always, is there a smarter way to implement an email distribution list based on Directory entries and selection of “Interests” such as custom fields? The goal here is to require as little reentry of data as possible and reuse the data that we already have.

Perhaps an easier way would be to use categories. Create a top level named “Interests” and you desired interest option as children categories. You can then export the data from Connections as a CSV file, open it in Excel to create “filtered” CSV files which can then be imported into you mailing list (many support bulk importing of CSV files).

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marcus

Ok, then try adding this to the theme’s custom CSS area (or use this):

#cn-slim-plus .cn-entry .cn-right {
    font-size: 16px;
}

[Steven Zahm]

@ Lisa

re: I have already imported the users. Will switching to Connections and adding the link extension keep their passwords and other meta data (phone# and streetname) in place?

The Connections data is separate from the user data (by design). Since you say you’ve imported this data, I assume by CSV. You could use CSV Import extension to import that data into Connections. You’ll still need those user accounts so those users will be able to login. You’ll want the Link extension so the user accounts will be linked to their Connections entry.

re: can I have a api callback checkbox with mailchimp?

Connections has no MailChimp integration, that said, Connections also does not do user registration where you would handle this. I suggest a user registration plugin which has MailChimp integration to get those features.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ tpcwebmaster

re: Have you seen anything like this before? Is there anything you can suggest? Thanks for your help!

No, I have seen this before. Have you checked the PHP error log to see if there are any errors reporting that could shed light? If you have, try turning on WP_DEBUG, visit the page and then look at the PHP error log.

re: I tried exporting the entire database and importing into a brand new, clean database on a different server and receive this error when importing the Connections tables:

I doubt importing into a new db will resolve the issue. Can not really help with the import error… but my guess is some type of versioning conflict issue where the exported SQL is not compatible with the settings used to import the SQL file.

Let me know what you find in the PHP error log.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Cole

Navigate to the ../wp-content/uploads/connections-images/ folder via FTP. look for the folder for the entry causing the problem and delete it. Doing so should restore the functionality.

The issue… a multi-megapixel image was uploaded causing the memory allocated to PHP being exhausted when Connections tries to process it. There are protections to try to prevent this from happening by using wp_max_upload_size() but this can be overridden by changing the default max upload size for upload_max_filesize or post_max_size to values that can easily exceed the memory available to PHP.

Hope that helps! Let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

Good to hear everything is working.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Marcus

That code is now on line 590 of the class.template-parts.php found here:
../wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/template/

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Alex

You should be able to edit the entry in the admin and deselect the default category. A entry must however be assigned to at least one category or the default category will be applied automatically.

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kathy

If you are only seeing the ROT13 Email extension, my best guess is that you are running old version of the others…

A Quick look at you site shows that you’re running cMap 3.1, the current is 5.1. I think in admin updates was added in version 4.0. The version of Form on your site is 1.0.2. The current version is 2.4.1. I believe in admin updates was added in version 2.0. I suspect that Link too is out of date. The current version being 3.0. I believe in admin updates was added in version 2.0.

I keep mentioning in admin updates because that is one of the features the support key enables. You have to install a current version add the support ket and when updates are released you will be able to apply those updates within the admin like other plugins.

You can download the latest version from your purchase history. To manually update, deactivate and delete the older version and then install the new versions. And then add and activate your support license keys.

Hope that helps.

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