[Steven Zahm]

@ sabrinaarionproductions-com-au

The cause seems to be an invalid shortcode. WordPress has tightened the security of shortcodes in recent updates. This made previous invalid but working shortcodes not work. Looking at your page I see the shortcode has both non-breaking spaces and uses fancy quotes. Neither of these are supported by the WordPress shortcode parser.

I suggest reading this shortcode basics doc. After you do, edit the page, delete the shortcode and then manually retype the shortcode while in the Text tab of the WordPress posts editor.

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Laura

Sorry, no there is not a way to open search results in a new tab/window. That said, there is a solution where no entries are shown until a search is performed. YOu can read the details in this QuickTip.

Another alternative is that the Widget Pack extension includes a search widget which can be placed in the theme’s sidebar. This would not open the search results in a new page/tab but it would enable you users to search the directory from any page.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Sandro Takke

I took a look at the site. It seems like you are showing hundreds of entries on a single page. Doing this is not recommended because it is like showing hundred of WordPress pages/posts on a single page. Doing this requires a lot of server resources. My guess is that you are exhausting the server resources allocated to you by your web host.

My first suggestion is to use a template which supports pagination. Any of these template do.

As for the admin server 500 error. If you changed the number of entries per page to a very large number, this error is likely being caused by running out of server resources. Can you remember how many entries per page you had set this to?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dave

Try the list_type shortcode option. Will that work for you?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jo Marks

re: when the user clicks on Logout is it possible for them to remain on the Directory page rather then going to the WordPress Logout screen?

That seems reasonable. I can make the widget default to the current page for when the user clicks the logout link. I’d have to push another update in order to make this change.

re: I’d also like to change the View My Directory Link to a View Directory Link and again take them straight to the Directory page front end.

See this FAQ. It explains how to change just about any text you want in Connections. To change Link specific strings like “View My Directory Entry” you would use the connections_link domain instead. Other than that, the instructions are exactly the same.

re: For some reason the entry I have put in for david has duplicated and I’m not sure why. It has slightly different information on each listing but I can only see it once in the Manage section.

You have the [connections] shortcode on the page twice, remove the second one.

re: I’ve changef the label of Biographical Information to Business using the css … This changes it on the front end but is there a way to change it on Form?

Following the instructions in this FAQ. It’s the same FAQ from my previous answers on how to change the text in Link.

re: I have entered a phone number in but it is not displaying and I can’t for the life of me work out why.

• Did you set the visibility of the phone number to private or unlisted?
• Did you perhaps turn off the display of the phone number in the cMap Template Customizer? I suspect this is the cause because I can see the phone number when I click to view the single entry detail/profile view.
• Did you perhaps set the shortcode option to disable the display phone numbers?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Rob

It appears you have some invalid HTML in the bio field of the Kingdom Print entry. I see at least three closing </div> tags that should not be there. So, My first suggestion would be to cleanup the HTML tags and text in the bio field.

Hope that helps, let me know.

[Steven Zahm]

@ afkw

Good to hear!

[Steven Zahm]

@ afkw

The form submission uses http://afkw.org/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php like plugins should when doing ajax request. The server is responding with an error code of 302.

If I load the page in https the submission seems to go thru fine. You should have a test submission from me.

My guess for the cause of the error is something in your sites configuration is blocking requests to the WordPress ajax api when sent over http but works fine when sent over https.

Does that help?

[Steven Zahm]

@ afkw

I see you are running version 1.0.3 of Form, the current is 2.4. Please update and let me know if the issue is resolved.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Laurie

I’ve been investing a lot of time at bulking up the documentation for Connections and its extensions and templates. Is there something I could have written somewhere that would have made this functionality more clear to you? Thanks in advance of taking time for providing any feedback you may have!

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