[Steven Zahm]

@ Ed

re: I would like to remove the ‘Select Category’ drop down menu

To do this, you will need to make a couple changes to the code from the QuickTip.

1. Remove $category = cnTemplatePart::category( $atts );
2. Change this line: $replace = $formOpen . $category . $search . $formClose; to this $replace = $formOpen . $search . $formClose;

re: widen the ‘Search’ box to about two times its current width.

You can do this using CSS. Add the following to the theme’s custom CS area:

input#cn-search-input {
    width: 280px !important;
}

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sandro Takke

My first suggestion would be to delete the image for the error entry in the ../wp-content/uploads/connections-images/ folder.

If that doesn’t work, then delete the entry from the database. You would have delete all the records from all the Connections tables in the database with the matching entry ID.

Let me know how it goes.

[Steven Zahm]

@ xeNz

Change $entry->getBioBlock(); to $entry->getExcerpt( array( 'length', 100 ) );. That should do it. Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ David

What version of PHP are you running? You can find this in the System Information Tool.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Nickolas

I too am running the latest Connections and Yoast on this site as well as my dev site, neither give me this error. I highly suspect that it might be the theme or another plugin calling a core WordPress action or filter incorrectly and it only shows an issue when all are used in combination. To debug further I will need an an admin and FTP login. The details can be posted here as a private reply.

[Steven Zahm]

@ beck

I looked at the page in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and IE … they all looked the same to me.

…

Oh, I see now. It only happens when you click on an item, but if you click off the item it disappears. It also disappears when mouse hovering over the item.

After a bit of fiddling I figured out this is being caused by the theme setting a 5px outline on links which have focus. They actually did this globally to many form elements such as submit button and checkboxes. Not sure why you would do that but I am sure the theme author has their reasons.

To fix this, add the following to the theme’s custom CSS area:

#cn-slim-plus a:focus {
    outline: none;
}

This will override the theme CSS setting in the Slim Plus template only.

Hope that helps.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sandro Takke

re: Can I change this number also als a variable in the database directly?

Yes, this would be saved in the usermeta table. The meta_key name will be connections. The meta_value should have a limit value. You could edit it but it would be much easier to simply delete the that row. There is nothing critical in it so it can be safely deleted.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Andrew

Are you by chance mapping the Entry ID field to entries which do not exist in the database? If you are, that would be why it is not working. The Entry ID field can only be used to update an existing entry ID… the Entry ID assigned to the entry by database when it is added. You can not use this field to set your own Entry ID.

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dave

re: is there a way I can change the titles of the “Biography” & “Notes” sections?

Yes, see this FAQ.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sandro Takke

re: I never noticed any problems in the front with the list.

Trust me, displaying hundreds of entries on a page is not recommended. It took me about 15 minutes to get the directory page to display as I kept getting server errors. It seems fine now, but it does take about 10 seconds for the page to load.

re: Also we had never problems in tha admin. After deleting one, the problems start.

Since the directory page seems to loading fine now, perhaps the admin is too. And the error you were getting was a server error not related to Connections. Can you please check.

re: The admin list is the standard a..z list so not many members per letter.

I understand this, but how many entries per page are being displayed? If you set this to a large number, this can cause server resources to be exhaustred and you will receive server errors when this happens. You can get away with a couple hundred depending on the server but I recommend no more than 50.

re: Surfing via dashboard to a individual member edit page gives no error.

If it is a server resource issue, that would make sense because you are only editing a single entry, not displaying hundreds.

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