[Steven Zahm]

@ Rob

Well, Connections can do what you want, just not displayed exactly like you want. The Widget Pack includes both a search and a category widget which you can place in a theme sidebar. If you want you could use a widget management plugin to limit their display only on the directory page. Here’s a demo link of what this might look like with the cMap template on the entry detail/profile page.

If you want to create you own category landing page, that to is possible and something many users do infact do. You could even use the search and category widgets as shortcodes on the landing page and do this automagically. Though you would have to create your own CSS to make the category list multiple column as it will only output as a list. Hope that makes sense.

I hope that thoroughly answers your questions.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Muhammad Sabir

Sorry, but I think you might be posting to the incorrect support forum. This support forum is for the Connections Business Directory plugin, not the a theme.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Дмитрий

Yes, you need one of the premium templates.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dave

Attachment deleted. Thanks for the review!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Daniel

Can you share a link to an entry which you have made edits to which are not showing?

Possible causes…

• Are you using a page caching plugin or server level page caching. If you are, try flushing the page cache.
• Did you use the Template Customizer feature in cMap to hide the display of the logo and notes in the detail/profile/ view?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Bert

Sounds like you got this all resolved. Great to hear!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Susan

re: Most of the plugins we use only call scrips and styles where required – is it possible to have Connections do the same?

Other than de-enqueuing them and then re-enqueueing them, sorry, no. I did have this at one time but quickly removed it because many users use the shortcode in places that can not be checked for in the post/page content (which is how other plugins do it). So examples. In text widgets and a few visual page builder plugins/themes that are popular enough that they can not be ignored.

The extra files have no impact beyond the first page load by a visitor anyway because the browser will cache the files and use them on subsequent page visits by the user. You probably better off from a performance standpoint to use a caching plugin like WP Rocket which minifies (Connections scripts are already minified) and concatenates CSS/JavaScript files.

Hope that answers your question thoroughly.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Robyn

It still loading files that haven’t existed in Connections since last September which obviously just should not be possible and yet it is. I’ll need a temp admin account so I can take a closer look.

The login details can be posted here as a private reply.

[Steven Zahm]

@ David

In regards to your initial post…

re: Default choice to be (eg) Organization, instead of individial

There is not a setting to change this but it can be done via a filter. Outside of these few requests over the years there is not many asking for this. Here’s how to do this with a filter:

Install the Code Snippets plugin. It is a far, far, better option that adding code to the theme’s functions.php file. Consider what would happen when the theme is updated and that file is overwritten or you decide at some point to switch themes :)

Add a new snippet with the following code:

function cn_default_entry_type( $atts ) {

    $atts['default']['type'] = 'organization';

    return $atts;
}

add_filter( 'cn_metabox_publish_atts', 'cn_default_entry_type', 11 );

Save and Activate the new snippet.

re: Default choices for phone number to be something else, like “Work”

This too can be done with a filter. See this forum post for the details.

re: a choice not to even display the title of the number and just have the number displayed without having the titles “home phone” or “work phone” etc.

This can be done very easily using the Template Customizer feature in cMap 5 and newer.

re: Default choice to make all new entries made “public” instead of unlisted.

Default for entry visibility is now “Public” instead of “Unlisted”

Hope that addresses everything thoroughly,

[Steven Zahm]

@ Robyn

Flush your Wp Super Cache page cache. See if that helps.

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