[Steven Zahm]

@ Amanda

Ok, the nonce error went away, so that is good… at least. Please try this. Deactivate Connections, delete it and then reinstall it. Just the Connections plugin. You data will be safe. Does that fix it?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Brian

re: Under manage, when I search, I only get a white page, no results. When I try to delete, it is only able to do so one at a time.

I assume you are talking about the Connections : Manage admin page, correct? By default this is set to show only 50 at a time. Did you change this to a much larger number?

Can you please create a secret URL so I can see your system config and share it with me please?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Suzanne

Sure. I made the exchange. You should receive an new sales confirmation email with your new support license key. Let me know if you do not receive it.

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

[Steven Zahm]

@ John

Glad to help!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jennifer

You can use the [connections_form] shortcode on a password protected page. You would want to disable the option to show the Submit Entry in the list actions on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Display tab. If someone knows Connections and Form, they could still guess the link and still submit. That is very low risk though.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Amy

This are being added by the theme. to remove them add the following the the theme’s custom CSS area.

#cn-list .vcard {
    border: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

This will override the border being adding by the theme.

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ David

re: Each person listed is linked to a webpage inside Connections through their name. We don’t need this. Most people in the directory do not have webpages nor will they even want them. Is there a way to disable this linking?

Yes. Go to Connections : Settings admin page and click the Advanced tab. Disable the Name link option.

re: We do want to be able to link to websites (not inside Connections) for our faculty as they are brought on-line. Is there a way to change where the linking that appears with the names points?

No because the name is reserved for the internal linking. However, Connections does have support for adding links to an entry. You can add as many links as you would like.

re: I have a page configured with the alphabetical indexes and anchoring, but they currently don’t allow movement around the page. When clicked on, they reload the page with at the top. Is there something that needs to be done to enable this navigation?

Are you asking about internal page linking? If so, no. When clicking on a character link, the page will reload filtering the entries based on the character clicked. If the list is not being filtered by the character clicked, this is due to the server config. The query vars are likely being stripped or not passed by the server. Generally I only see this issue pop up on dev server and local installs.

re: I see that some of the premium templates allow searching. We would like to have this, but, honestly, the original template (as configured by me) is almost exactly what we want. Is there a way to add the search functionality to the original template? We don’t mind paying for a plug-in, but don’t really need to change the template.

Then I recommend the cMap template. It is very configurable via the Template Customizer. Though it will not be exactly as the default template, it can be configured to be pretty close.

Hope this answers your questions thoroughly!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Suzanne

The template used on the Dance Trains site is using the cMap template. You site is using the Tile Plus template..

Hope that helps!

[Steven Zahm]

@ John

I was under the impression, we can hide a listings email address (with a link to email contact instead) or could obsfucate them?

Yes. The options are:

1. Do not add the email address and it will not be shown.
2. If you wish to add the email, set it its Visibility to Private or Unlisted. Then only logged in users can view it (Private) or you, the admin (Unlisted).
3. If you want the email to be publically visible but protected against spambots, then you need the ROT13 Email Encryption extension.
4. If you want site visitors to be able to email the entry without exposing the email address publically regardless of its visibility, then you need the Contact extension

Now, if you asking if you can add a link, let’s say “email me”, for users to click that opens the email app on the visitors computer/mobile device, the answer is no. This offers no protection because the email address is in the page source which a spambot can read as easily as if it were on the page itself.

Hope that answers your question thoroughly.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Jennifer

If you go to the Connections : Settings admin page and click the Form tab, their is an option to require the user to login before they can add an entry. Would that work?

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